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Trump floats Obama-like deportation plan, and his fans don’t mind

Courtesy of donaldjtrump.com Trump on the campiagn trail in Fayetteville, N.C., March 9.

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Speaking before Trump’s campaign rally in Austin, Texas, Tuesday night, Alabama Republican senator and longtime Trump ally Jeff Sessions tried to parse Trump’s words, saying he was softening his position on the “legality” of illegal immigration. Though there is recent history to suggest it could work (the man who succeeded Clinton at Foggy Bottom, John Kerry, can attest to that), they concluded that the charge was too complicated to land effectively.

Trump’s campaign responded with a statement from surrogate Mark Burns, a SC pastor and televangelist. We are very close in Ohio. It has to be very firm. He added: “But we want to come up with something fair”. And I think hes going to get this thing back on track, ” Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, said Sunday. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. We’re going to get them out, and the police know who they are.

“He needs to explain his tone and why he used the words he used and what he means by that – what are his policies and those of Hillary Clinton and how his are the ones that are really the answer to greater shared prosperity in our great country”, said Aguirre Ferré, a veteran journalist and adviser to the presidential campaign of former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

“The first thing we’re going to do if and when I win is we’re going to get rid of all of the bad ones”, Trump said.

Despite voicing support for Trump, Portman describes distinguishing himself from the nominee on a policy position “almost weekly”.

Asked specifically about the deportation plan, Conway replied, “There could be a way to figure out how to do it so we’re not here to harm people”.

Instead, Aguirre Ferre said, “he will focus on removing the violent undocumented who have criminal records and live in the country”.

Trump has postponed a speech in which he was to lay out his immigration policy. The campaign was exploring a Denver-area location for the event, but later reversed course.

Said GOP consultant Brian Walsh: “If Republicans lose the Senate the responsibility for that will lie exclusively with Donald Trump”.

Trump met Saturday with Hispanic supporters, representatives of a community that has been wary of the billionaire businessmans deportation proposals and his plans to build a giant wall on the U.S. -Mexico border. “He knows he can’t break up families and round up people on buses to kick them out”. They are known by law enforcement who they are. “There can be no exceptions”. The goal, says her campaign, is to make it cheaper to start a company.

Trump has highlighted crimes committed by immigrants living in the USA illegally. “That’s not what he is supposed to be about”.

“We’re going to build a wall”.

Clinton, meanwhile, is spending the next three days fundraising across California. She will stop at the homes of actors Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel in Los Angeles, address donors with NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson in Beverly Hills and join Apple CEO Tim Cook and other business leaders in Silicon Valley.

“She still has a fight ahead of her going into November”.

He also said the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation “can’t be trusted” to investigate the foundation after declining to prosecute Clinton over the email scandal.

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At the same time, the US has been rattled by Turkey’s recent diplomatic flirtations with traditional USA foes Russian Federation and Iran, concerned they may indicate that a frustrated Turkey is rethinking its allegiance with the West in promoting regional stability.

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