He also promised to implement a “mass deportation” of the 11 million illegal immigrants residing in the country right now.
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Here is a rundown of what changes he and his team have mentioned in the past few days.
In an interview on CNN Thursday morning, Trump’s new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tried to distinguish what Trump is saying from what Rubio, Bush and others advocated.
“To be determined”, she said. Not so, said Trump.
“I think that as we go down through this, we enforce the law”, King said. “We know the bad ones… those people are gone”. We have some great, great people in this country. Has a job, everything else. OK.
“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?”
Trump’s policy positions on immigration have been clear through the entire primary season and the Republican convention. Trump and Clinton are polling “about even” in Iowa, he added, and he’d like Trump to launch campaign ads in the state since Clinton has already done so. They have to pay taxes. “All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into – it’s kind of disturbing”. It shows what appear to be scores of Latinos riding a freight train as an announcer says Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton favors an open border with Mexico and opposes the deportation of criminals. She said her tour promoting the book “could be the shortest ever if he’s really softening his position on immigration”. Polls often show that majorities favor letting people illegally in the US stay and also back tougher laws to deport them.
Now Trump is apparently signaling a major shift in his policy, saying that he’s open to working with undocumented immigrants rather than deporting them all.
“I don’t know what to believe about a guy who doesn’t believe in things”, Bush said. She told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC on Wednesday Trump would not have a “touch back” policy.
“If somebody wants to go legalization route, what they’ll do is they’ll go, leave the country, hopefully come back in, and then we can talk”.
“He´s trying to do both; he will probably succeed at neither”, said Larry Sabato, a veteran political scientist with the University of Virginia. “It’s very exciting. I haven’t seen anything like this since the 1980 Reagan campaign against [Jimmy] Carter”. “It’s gonna remain very strong”, he said.
Even though it has been almost a week since she made her “TBD” remark, Conway appears to be sticking to the same talking points.
“I think her policies have left many people behind”, she told co-host George Stephanopoulos.
‘He has said no path to legalization, no path to citizenship, and no amnesty, ‘ Conway said. In fact, he regularly attacked primary opponents as weak on immigration when they attempted to point out the problems with his proposals.
A police report obtained by The Associated Press says that Bannon’s then-wife claimed Bannon grabbed her wrist and “grabbed at” her neck during an altercation.
“You have a lot of people being deported. We know it’s possible”. But he declined to explain how this would be done, and he declined to clarify whether he would attempt to round up other undocumented immigrants. It’s gonna be done humanely, you said.
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Thus the Republican candidate finds himself torn between being the old thundering Trump who managed to galvanize large numbers of conservatives, and the “new” Trump, whose sincerity seems suspect to moderate Americans. Political reporters added that it was insane, because nobody they knew was against immigration. Some people have estimated 1 million.
