“So now we have the person, 20 years been an upstanding person, the family is great, everyone is great, do we throw them out or do we work with them?” And the reason is they’re not law abiding in the first place.
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And yet the very next words out of Trump’s mouth were: “But, so, we’re going to follow the laws of this country”. “We are going to enforce our laws, remove people who overstay their visas, dismantle the gangs and cartels, and protect jobs and benefits for hardworking American citizens”.
Jennifer Hochschild, a professor at Harvard University who focuses on race and immigration, said she did not think Trump could fix his relationship with black and Hispanic voters.
“That one is so simple”, he said.
Trump did little to clarify matters in an interview that aired on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, saying, “We’re going to have very, very tough standards”. For Trump to show up one day after running a consistently incendiary campaign and say, “Oh, by the way, I’d like to win black voters” is to invite charges of insincerity. Well, that’s about to be tested, because if there’s one issue that has animated the Republican rank and file over the past decade, it’s immigration.
A move by Trump to modify his stance on immigration could help him attract more support among moderate voters in his uphill drive to win the November 8 election.
He said the country’s GDP growth rate of 1.1% in the second quarter was not a good sign for the USA economy. Jeff Sessions, an immigration hard-liner.
If Trump does abandon plans for massive deportation, he’s still staked out a radical approach to immigration-including his dubious proposal to build a giant wall along the Mexican border and his insistence, despite all evidence, that Mexico will pay for it. He has also promised to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. “They know who they are and they’re going to be gone like so fast your head will spin … okay … so that’s easy, right?” In her phone interview with MSNBC, she said she was certain there are no emails or Clinton Foundation ties to foreign entities that would affect her presidential prospects.
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.
And Trump seemed to backtrack yet again less than 24 hours later, saying on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” Thursday evening that he would not grant any legal status to immigrants here illegally unless they leave the United States first, something that would be burdensome and impractical when applied to millions of people.
“You come out from the shadows. There’s no amnesty, but we will work with them”. They have to go. We’ve got gang members, we have killers, we have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country.
Just two weeks ago, it looked like Donald Trump’s chances of winning the presidency were dead.
Now facing a bigger electorate, Trump suggested that Hispanics have been taken for granted by Democrats. A bill that included citizenship – but only after a wait for immigrants of more than a decade and needing to pay fines – passed with 68 votes in the Senate that year.
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He also spoke of how hard it would be to deport people who have lived in the country for decades and raised a family.
