If this week’s string of vague and contradictory statements by Trump and his team is revealing anything, it’s that his immigration policy is still evolving. No citizenship?” Mr. Trump said no, though he endorsed some sort of legal status short of citizenship: “Let me go a step further-they’ll pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes. Bush, the same thing. Polls often show that majorities favour letting people illegally in the USA stay and also back tougher laws to deport them. “I’m annoyed enough with what he actually did without the media being hysterical about things he didn’t do”. “Trump is much more like an average American than he is like a politician”, said Beck, whose group still downgraded Trump in its voter guide this week.
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“He may try to disguise his plans by throwing in words like “humane” or “fair”, but the reality remains that Trump’s agenda echoes the extreme right’s will – one that is fueling a risky movement of hatred across the country”, CNN reported citing Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri as saying.
But Trump surrogates have started hinting at a shift in recent days.
Overall, Trump’s supporters are split on how they view immigrants in the country illegally – according to a new survey from Pew Research Center, only 50 percent of Trump supporters agree that “undocumented immigrants now living in the USA are more likely than US citizens to commit serious crimes”. Jeff Sessions, a longtime ally of Trump’s, emphasized that “there’s not going to be mass round-ups and that kind of thing” in the Republican nominee’s immigration plan. “Those meetings didn’t take place to say hello”. In 2014, 414,481 people were deported.
Obviously that depends on the results this fall: If Democrats take the White House and Senate and make gains in the House and Trump endures some sort of apocalyptic loss among Latinos and young adults, the Republican leadership might be prepared to surrender to Clinton and Schumer to finish this issue off once and for all.
Hispanic and religious leaders who met privately with Trump ahead of the convention said he signaled that he is open to embracing a less punitive immigration policy that focuses on “compassion” along with the rule of law.
In his speeches, Trump has painted a dismal picture of life for black Americans, describing war zones as “safer than living in some of our inner cities” and suggesting that African-Americans and Hispanics can’t walk down streets without getting shot.
Trump was campaigning on Saturday in Iowa, headlining Republican Sen.
The ping-pong accusations come as the two candidates vie for minorities and any undecided voters with less than three months until Election Day. Trump has registered as low as 1 percent or 2 percent among black voters – and his remarks last week probably cost him support.
Trump is also trying to shore up his standing with Latino voters.
Coulter has said Trump requested and received an advance copy of the book.
“This is the only actual substantive change that we can discern, policy change, from the original Trump plan, and it will be seen as being problematic in many circles”, he said. He added, however, that “there is at least some significant portion of Hispanic conservative community where he’s already gone too far”. “They are going to be out of this country so fast your head will spin”.
At the same event, Trump also indicated an openness to “softening” his immigration policies, which also includes building a wall on the border with Mexico. He rejected the argument that only immigrants who’ve committed crimes should be deported, because as he argued, anyone in the country illegally is by definition a criminal.
Does Trump have the faintest clue what black America is really like?
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Such an ad seems to project an image of unwavering firmness on immigration.
