But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, ‘Mr.
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His surrogates, including running mate Mike Pence, were out on the television talks shows Sunday with the message that Trump would unveil a “fair and humane” policy for dealing with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. On Wednesday, Trump “polled” the audience by applause on whether an undocumented immigrant who had been in the US for years should be allowed to go through some sort of process and stay in the country ― the broad strokes of immigration reform he criticized opponents including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. “They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”. You have somebody who’s terrific who’s been here, right, long time – long court proceeding, long everything in other words to get them out. He even polled the audience on whether to allow some people in the country illegally to stay, a key part of President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s agendas. After Republicans won the Senate in 2014 and the prospect of an immigration overhaul grew dimmer, Obama acted again to protect up to 4 million parents of US citizens or permanent residents and let them work legally.
The “touchback” policy seemingly floated by the GOP ticket this week could mimic the very proposal Pence laid out in 2006 while serving in Congress. Then-Congressman Pence proposed in a speech to the Heritage Foundation that the US require all undocumented immigrants to return to their native countries but then work through a new guest-worker program to return – within as quickly as a week – to their place of employment.
“That one is so simple”, he said. Marco Rubio campaigned in November in South Carolina: “We will enforce our immigration laws”.
“So, they believe saying racist or anti-Semitic things-it’s is not an act of hate, but an act of freedom”, she said. 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.
Tapper replied, “I don’t understand why it’s the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that you’re crediting Donald Trump for bringing to the fore”. Jeff Sessions, an immigration hard-liner. Pence also did not answer whether the campaign believes, as Trump has said, that children born to people who are in the US illegally are not USA citizens.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Joni’s Roast and Ride at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, in Des Moines on August 27. Build a wall along the southern border. “African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” During the GOP primary Trump slammed rivals like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich for backing “amnesty” – letting people here illegally remain.
“It’s a process. You can’t take 11 at one time and just say “boom, you’re gone, ‘” he told Cooper, floating the idea that as many as 30 million people could be living here illegally, a projection well beyond most analysts” figures. The speech may also address how he would implement his plan to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants.
He was pressed on what would happen in cases where immigrants didn’t have anywhere to return, and Trump repsonded, “we will work with them”. They have to go. “We want to follow the laws of the country, and if we follow the laws, we can do what we have to do”.
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Trump did not formally commit to any position during the town hall, saying instead that his campaign would “come out with a decision very soon”. All those figures are even higher among Democrats, but what’s so remarkable is how majorities of Republicans reject the picture Trump paints. And that’s assuming an orderly, cooperative deportation of around 400,000 people a year rather than a sudden mass sweep or a Syria-like calamity.
