Trump met Thursday with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers to drive up voter turnout among their peers.
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“Longtime Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke supports Donald Trump because they share so numerous same values”, one Clinton campaign tweet read.
But despite his own repeated calls for mass deportations, the Republican nominee is signaling that he may now make exceptions, telling Fox News in a television town hall that “we’ve got some great people in this country – they shouldn’t be here, they’re still great people”.
Donald Trump says there could be a “softening” in his hardline immigration proposals – though he did not provide detail and his campaign so far has yet to offer a coordinated message on whether there’s been a shift in policy. And there certainly can be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people, we want people – we have some great people in this country.
Trump has repeatedly declared that if elected, he would deport the 11 million people living in the US illegally.
“Is there any part of the law that you might be able to change that would accommodate those people that contribute to society, have been law-abiding, have kids here, would there be any room in your mind or are you – because I know you had a meeting this week with Hispanic leaders”, Hannity asked.
The businessman is not reneging on his plan to build a wall along the United States border with Mexico aimed at stopping migrants from entering the country illegally.
In an unusual move, the reality TV star canvassed the views of the television audience by asking them to shout out their approval for throwing out illegal immigrants or working with them. In recent days, he’s suggested he might be open to allowing them to stay. I think it’s a very important thing.
Trump said Clinton paints his voters as racists, suggesting reports indicate she will soon accuse the Trump campaign and its supporters of bigotry.
Trump had been scheduled to outline his immigration policies Thursday in Colorado.
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.
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has made a career of “stiffing” small businesses, choosing not to pay them and driving some of them out of business, Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has alleged.
Earlier in the exchange, Hannity asked Trump if people “who have worked hard, who have been here a long time”, would be sent back to the country they came from or if he would “reconsider them”.
Trump said that on his first day in office, he would authorize law enforcement to actively deport “bad dudes”, such as those who have committed crimes, which he said numbered “probably millions”.
The Trump campaign’s potential plans to visit inner cities were first reported Tuesday by The Washington Post.
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This story has been corrected to show Trump’s remark about a “fair, but firm” immigration policy was made Monday, not last week.
