“I am going to create a new special deportation task force, focused on identifying and removing quickly the most risky criminal illegal immigrants in America”.
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Trump, who once called for deporting all illegal immigrants, said in his widely anticipated immigration speech Thursday night that his enforcement priorities focus on illegal immigrants who had committed crimes as well as “recent illegal arrivals and overstays who’ve come here under the current Administration”.
This is a key change or clarification from Trump.
Trump had previously called for a “deportation force”.
Trump, meanwhile, has lauded Mexican-Americans who have arrived in the USA legally, calling them “spectacular” and “hard-working”, but has not indicated much sympathy for those who are undocumented. Otherwise, he notably says he is not targeting those without criminal records. But she noted that the global economy has been transformed and that if the country doesn’t let more people in legally, they may arrive illegally instead. He offered the next quotes, which seem to point in opposite directions.
“For those here today illegally who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and only one route: to return home and apply for re-entry”.
Even before the Mexican trip was announced, former adviser Barry Bennett said Trump faced political risk should he appear to be reversing himself on an issue as sensitive as immigration. But what does it mean?
Particularly irksome to Mexicans was that Pena Nieto appeared to do little to push back against Trump’s earlier negative statements about Mexican migrants and unpopular proposals.
“Not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate”.
“I think there was an advance in general”, he added.
Trump said at a joint news conference with Pena Nieto that he and the Mexican leader did not discuss who would pay for the wall. “He was moving toward a [reasonable], pro business and [compassionate] immigration plan”.
Then, hours later, Trump was in Arizona for a rally.
“While there are many illegal immigrants in our country who are good people, this doesn’t change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower-skilled workers with less education who compete directly against vulnerable American workers”.
This is a fascinating quote, containing two seemingly paradoxical thoughts from the past week.
Texas pastor Ramiro Pena, another member, said that the council was a “scam” in an email to RNC officials that was first reported by Politico. It is a warm nod followed by a sharp rebuke. “100%. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for the wall”. “What can this meeting bring us except surrealism in all its splendor?”
Mark Gonzalez, founder of the Hispanic Action Network, had also expected Trump to go in a different direction. A comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 died in the House largely because it would have provided a path to citizenship for immigrants who are now in the country illegally.
Before we get going it’s nice to remember that the number of undocumented people entering the USA has decreased over the last five years, that the U.S.
He promised to deport two million “criminal aliens” in his first hour in office; warned that millions more would be “subject to deportation” and re-stated his signature pledge, to build that “beautiful” wall.
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“The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in order to achieve the following goals: To keep immigration levels, measured by population share, within historical norms”. Immigrants are actually less likely to commit violent crimes than US citizens.
