“It’s hard for me to see a path to moderate that without alienating the Republicans who got him this far”. Trump is the best choice.
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“He is so weak on illegal immigration it’s laughable, and everybody knows it”, Trump said during a debate.
“We’re getting a wall”. In the cartoon Hillary says: “I ain’t no ways exhausted of pandering to African-Americans”. “But if you’re not here legally, then you are not enforcing the law”, Weeks said.
Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary under George W. Bush, says the confusion that now exists about Trump’s plans for immigration underscores “the risk in electing someone whose candidacy is based on his personality and image, as opposed his experience and policy knowledge”.
Friends and associates say Bill Clinton has accepted that his role in the high-profile charity has to change.
Republican officials have stressed that Trump’s lack of ground game has been bolstered by an increased party investment – the Republican National Committee touts 500 paid staffers and more than 4,000 volunteers for its ground effort, and Trump is the party’s top priority.
At the same time, Trump has not backed off his proposal to build a new wall on the southwest border at Mexico’s expense.
For more than a week now, as he’s tried to shine the spotlight on his rival, Trump has appeared to wrestle with one of his signature proposals: A pledge to expel everyone living in the USA illegally with the help of a “deportation force”.
If the media has missed the point, so, too have some of his surrogates and advisers, who spent much of the weekend dodging questions about Trump’s immigration plan.
Republican rivals scoffed at the sheer unfeasibility of his proposal – leading Trump to cite the model of the 1954 “Operation Wetback” under President Dwight Eisenhower, which rounded up thousands of undocumented immigrants from USA fields and ranches, bused them to detention centers, and sent them back to Mexico, first by airlift, and then by cargo boat – a journey that was widely denounced as inhumane.
The GOP nominee polled an audience last week on the fate of an estimated 11 million people.
But the mogul’s NY modeling agency, Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens, who shared their stories with Mother Jones. “These are families that include US citizens, hardworking members of society, entrepreneurs and business owners. He’s not lecturing them like most of the politicians you see today”.
Trump is already struggling among Hispanic voters.
The softer tone contrasted with her eye-catching remarks about Trump at a private event in June, in which she compared him to Hitler and Mussolini, and earlier this month when she announced her support for Clinton and called Trump “a dishonest demagogue”. Trump, who has accused Mexico of sending “rapists” to the US, came under criticism in June for saying a Mexican-American judge presiding over civil fraud lawsuits against Trump University was biased against him because of his heritage.
“Look”, he said last November, “we have to do what we have to do, and Ike did it and other people have done it”. Flanked by products from local Georgia farms, Pence pronounced Trump “as genuine as a Georgia peach” to peals of applause from supporters waving “Farmers for Trump” signs. “When you run for president, you ought to tell people what you want to do as their president”. “We are lucky we have citizenship by birth”. Or perhaps they can just stay here and we’ll “work with them”.
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“He’s like a stand-up comedian working out material on the road”, Beck said. But she has no qualms with the hardline stance. “I came here and I want other people to do it the right way”, she said.
