Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced he’ll be making a speech on illegal immigration on Wednesday in Arizona, after a week of speculation that he might be softening his hard-line promise to deport 11 million people living in the United States illegally.
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Trump’s tweet Sunday suggested he was poised to clear up questions about his immigration stance. Shortly after Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the country, Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin said he wouldn’t vote for Trump if Trump was the nominee; former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman compared Trump’s rise to that of Hitler and Mussolini a few days later.
Trump has focused lately on deporting people who are in the US illegally and who have committed crimes.
It now looms as an obstacle, however, as he seeks to expand his base in the general election contest with Democrat Hillary Clinton, who has accused Trump of flirting with racism.
FILE – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes pictures with supporters after a campaign event at the Central Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C., February 23, 2016, during a primary season that has proved surprisingly competitive. But whom Trump considers a criminal remains unclear. When Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway was recently asked if Trump would forcibly remove all undocumented immigrants from the country, she said that this was to be determined.
Added Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway: “The softening is more approach than policy”, adding that on immigration, Trump “wants to find a fair and humane way”. Then the Republican establishment saw how Trump’s anti-Hispanic rhetoric was turning formerly red states into possible purples and they put their foot down.
Several days ago, Clinton aimed her sharpest attacks of the campaign against what she said was Trump’s affinity for supporting racially exclusionary groups.
Surrogates speak for and back up their presidential nominee. “I mean, you’re going to hear more detail in next two weeks that lays out all the policies”, Pence said. “If he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?”
It’s been a long and sometimes puzzling journey to this point for Trump, who defeated 16 Republican opponents while promising to be the toughest on illegal immigration. Root was killed this year after her vehicle was hit by another. But none could address whether Trump still favored a deportation force.
He also pledged to create an e-verify system that would prohibit illegal immigrants from getting access to social benefits, such as welfare.
Bottom line: Would undocumented immigrants have to leave the United States? The New York Times may employ the noxious Maggie Haberman, but it offers an excellent visualization of leading Republicans’ willingness to publicly dump Trump, in the form of a timeline of many of Trump’s most notorious statements (“I would bring back waterboarding, and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding”) running alongside a timeline of when various Republicans disavowed him. Still later, he suggested undocumented immigrants would have to leave the country before returning if they want to pursue USA citizenship.
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The overview of major domestic and global threats facing the USA was conducted at a federal government facility near her home outside NY. President Obama does enforce the law and he chooses to focus it on unsafe criminals instead of deporting DREAMers.
