Rep. Steve King, a staunch critic of illegal immigration, said Friday he’s “happy to hear” Donald Trump clarifying his immigration policy and reiterating his opposition to legal status for undocumented immigrants. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump, ‘ I have it all the time.
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For Trump, whose rise to the Republican nomination was based in large part on his hardline immigration policies, the comments are the clearest sign yet that he is reconsidering his pledge to deport all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the USA, a key part of his campaign platform.
He insisted that he is “very strong on illegal immigration” and warned not to be fooled by the news media”. “They can come back, but they have to come back legally”. “It’s not fair to them”.
“Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists”, Trump predicted.
That is a far cry from the early days of the primaries, when Trump vowed to use a “deportation force” to round up and deport the millions of people living in the country illegally.
A top heavy 76 percent majority in the Pew poll believe undocumented immigrants are as hard working as USA citizens, while 67 percent agreed that undocumented immigrants are no more likely than citizens to commit serious crimes.
What if a stricter immigration policy under a Trump presidency resulted in his own father being threatened with deportation?
Trump told reporters in Trump Tower Thursday that he would be making an immigration speech in a ‘week or so’. “Whether you like it or not, he is so weak on illegal immigration, it’s laughable and everybody knows it”.
“You come out from the shadows”.
His controversial plan to issue a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the country changed to a ban on countries with a history of terrorism against the US. Trump asked the crowd, which had a mixed reaction.
“I don’t think these efforts will do a lot to help him in minority communities”, Fraga said. “I don’t think it’s a softening”.
During a breakfast at the Republican National Convention, Farage said American voters shouldn’t expect to see him on the campaign trail.
He noted the party’s history, with the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, freeing slaves in the mid-1800s.
“There certainly can be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people, we want people – we have some great people in this country”, Trump said. Over the weekend, he met with a Hispanic advisory council and he is expected to give a detailed speech on immigration soon.
After months of gleefully vilifying Jeb Bush and other Republican primary opponents as soft on immigration, Donald Trump is trying to back off of his ridiculously unworkable and divisive pledge to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants.
While struggling to keep up with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the polls, Mr Trump has addressed black and Hispanic voters in recent days with the aim of broadening his support beyond white working-class voters. General election voters proved smarter and more pragmatic than Trump suspected.
Trump continued: “No citizenship”.
Yet Trump, often given to boastful claims, told one rally that if he wins the presidency in the November 8 election and runs for re-election in 2020 he would win 95 percent of the black vote.
“I can fix the inner cities”, Trump said. That’s all they’ve done.
There is already a chorus of “we told you so” from the Cruz camp and NeverTrumps. Her campaign says deportations would focus on immigrants “who pose a violent threat to public safety”.
Clinton has been off the campaign trail for several days, concentrating her efforts on major fundraising events, meeting wealthy donors in Martha’s Vineyard, a summer playground along the Atlantic Ocean in the northeastern state of MA.
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In the United States, the race for the White House is not decided by the popular vote, but rather in the Electoral College, where the voting is determined by the outcome in each state, weighted according to its population. Then she heads back across the country for more fundraising in the wealthy Hamptons area of Long Island outside NY.
