‘Hillary Clinton wants a totally open border so people can just pour in, ‘ Trump said.
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In a town hall on immigration broadcast Wednesday night on Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity show, Trump spoke of how across the country, people have told him that it would be hard and unfair to deport undocumented immigrants who have deep roots in the United States, contributing and raising children here. And as we work our way through this, there will be people lost in the shadows, as others say, years down the road, and it doesn’t trouble me if they live in the shadows and we don’t find them, if they’re not running contrary to the law.
At the time, Bush’s plan was met with derision from Trump, who accused Jeb Bush of being “the weakest person by far” on immigration.
His poll numbers falling behind Hillary Clinton’s with less than three months until Election Day, Trump has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in an effort to broaden his appeal. But in the same breath, Trump said that he would consider deporting people without records as well. “This could be the shortest book tour ever if he’s really softening his position on immigration”.
“But we’ve got some really really bad gang members”, Trump continued, “and some disgusting people”. “I’ve had people say it’s a hardening, actually”. “We’ve got gang members, we have killers, we have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country”.
After signaling that his position on immigration is “to be determined” and that it could “soften”, Donald Trump did an awesome thing – what amounts to nearly a full about-face on the principal issue that has driven his campaign. It’s a referendum of Donald Trump, like you’re going to the ballot box and it’s going to be a big picture of Donald Trump with a light.
Asked if otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants with longstanding ties to the USA will be deported, Mr. Trump said he’d see what happens once the border is strengthened.
“Let me go a step further-they’ll pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes, there’s no amnesty, as such, there’s no amnesty, but we work with them”, Trump said. We want people – we have some great people in this country. “We are going to come out with a decision very soon”. “We want to come up with a fair but firm process”. Advocates speculated that Trump’s goal was to woo independent voters who might support him but are turned off by his harsher stances.
“It’s not an issue that I care to comment on, because I’m not a doctor”, Conway said about Clinton’s health. They said they planned to swap in Johnson.
Some, including Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, noted that Trump’s switch to using donor money coincided with the campaign’s increased rental payments. Trump will have a narrow path to the White House without winning the Sunshine State, where he owns several resorts and which he dubbed “his second home” on Wednesday.
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“The expansion is in anticipation of more staff”, said Steven Cheung, director of Trump’s rapid response. More shockingly, Obama is now on pace to deport more people than the sum of all 19 presidents who governed the United States from 1892-2000, according to government data.
