“No citizenship”, Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview taped Tuesday afternoon in Austin, Texas.
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Trump has gone from building the wall and throwing all of the immigrants out to a position of we’ll let the immigrants who have been here for a long time stay as long as they pay taxes and don’t become citizens.
There has been interest in Trump’s stance on what to do with the more than 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country since the Republican said there could be a “softening” in his position.
“When I look at the rooms and I have this all over, now everybody agrees we get the bad ones out”, Trump said. “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, ‘” Trump said. I think it’s a very important thing.
Trump claimed that his supporters have urged him to soften his stance on immigration, even though he has staked much of his campaign on his tough stance on immigration and portraying immigrants as “rapists and criminals”. -Mexican border to keep out immigrants, underscoring the tricky balancing act he faces in retaining backing from conservatives while beckoning to moderates for their votes. A common plank of various immigration reform proposals to provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants is a requirement that they pay back taxes in the process. He vowed to make cities safer so that “when you walk down your street. you’re not going to be shot, your child is not going to be shot”.
But Trump has a tendency to flip flop on policies, sometimes issuing detailed white papers only to contradict them in public or abandon them entirely later on.
“I think we’re going to do great with African-Americans and with the Hispanics”, he said, despite polls showing the minority voters overwhelmingly favoring rival Hillary Clinton.
Trump suggested that Hispanics have been taken for granted by Democrats.
It’s hard to square these new remarks with the Trump who, throughout the GOP primaries, called for “rounding up” and deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants and their families.
Campaign officials had confirmed the planned August 31 immigration speech Wednesday afternoon at the Hyatt Regency hotel – a day after the Arizona primary election.
Arizona Republican Party Chairman Robert Graham confirmed the event and that the speech would cover “policy”.
This wasn’t a few bricks in Trump’s campaign; it was the very foundation.
“No citizenship”, he said, according to a partial transcript.
The speech had previously been scheduled for this Thursday in Colorado, but Trump’s campaign announced that it would be postponed, pinning that and two other cancelled rallies on a schedule change due to his visit to flood-ravaged Louisiana.
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“Hillary Clinton wants a totally open border so people can just pour in”, Trump said.
