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The one great service of Donald Trump's extended peregrinations on immigration policy is to have demonstrated how, in the end, there's only one place to go. You can rail for a year about the squishy soft, weak-kneed and stupid politicians who have opened our borders to the wretched refuse of Mexico.
What a fine race it has become! Both Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump are competing in it as a who is the 'tougher guy/gal' in what could be easily described as a 21st Century Tarantino-style political pulp fiction gore. What they both utter, may often sound like some staged bluff: "Are you talking to me? Hey, there's nobody else herea Are you talking to me ?" But just think for a moment what would really happen if one of them sticks to his or her 'promises' and 'principles', after getting elected ! .
Some Hispanic leaders who have been advising Donald Trump say they feel betrayed after his long-awaited immigration speech that definitively ruled out a pathway to legal status for people living in the country illegally. Trump stopped short of calling for the mass deportation of millions of people who have not committed crimes beyond their immigration offenses.
Some of Donald Trump's Hispanic backers distanced themselves from the Republican nominee on Thursday for standing by a hardline approach to illegal immigration in a key speech after indicating for weeks that he may soften his approach. Trump tried to clarify confusion about immigration, his signature policy issue, in a speech on Wednesday.
A delegate holds a sign that reads "Latinos For Trump" before the start of the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. If nothing is done to curb the influence of Mexican culture in America, people are going to start seeing "taco trucks every corner," Latinos for Trump founder Marco Gutierrez warned Thursday while appearing on MSNBC .
"According to federal data, there are at least 2 million, 2 million, think of it, criminal aliens now inside of our country, 2 million people, criminal aliens. a Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities.
The morning after Donald Trump once again embraced his hard-line immigration positions in a shouted speech, at least four members of his two-week-old Hispanic advisory council said they might not vote for the Republican presidential nominee and warned that his harsh rhetoric would cost him the election. At meetings Thursday on the 14th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the candidate's top aides held the opposite view.
Fervently declaring "we will build a great wall along the southern border," Trump kicked off his immigration speech Wednesday in Arizona during which he his plan which continues to ignore the complexities currently facing the U.S. immigration system. Among a litany of unrealistic proposals, Trump called for the deportation of students, even though DACA recipients are currently protected from deportation under President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration.
"Oh, there's softening," Donald Trump said of his immigration position, though he shouldn't be embarrassed, as it happens to lots of guys' policy platforms. Republicans are baffled by Trump's immigration speech, and it takes A LOT to baffle Republicans - these are the people who nominated Donald Trump.
In Phoenix, Trump reprised his calls for a wall, but backed away from his previous vow to round up and deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump embraces a mother who child was killed by a person living in the country without legal permission after delivering an immigration policy speech on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Phoenix.
Alfonso Aguilar, a prominent Hispanic surrogate for Donald Trump, announced Thursday he had officially withdrawn his support from the Republican presidential nominee following his immigration speech in Phoenix. Mr. Aguilar, president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles advocacy group, said he expected Mr. Trump to soften his approach to people living in the country illegally.
A prominent Latino surrogate for Donald Trump announced Thursday he had officially withdrawn his support from the Republican presidential nominee after the real estate mogul resumed his hard-line immigration position in a major policy speech in Arizona. Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles President Alfonso Aguilar told CNN he felt disappointed and misled by Trump and his campaign after recent speculation the Republican nominee would soften his stance on undocumented immigrants.
With Labor Day upon us-meaning the election is around the corner-ask yourself: "Who would I rather see in the White House?" A man who uses social media and press conferences to say where he stands, even if you are not happy about where he stands? Or a woman who refuses to hold press conferences and charters a separate plane for the press rather than allow them to ride with her and have an occasional chat as past candidates and presidents have done? A man who is willing to seem like an anti-refugee racist in order to prevent terrorists from entering the country disguised as refugees, or a woman who welcomes tens of thousands of Syrian refugees even before the FBI has a satisfactory vetting process in place? A man who will do all he can to stem the tide of illegal immigration, including building a wall on our border with Mexico, or a woman who would assure non-felon illegals that they will ... (more)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday that anyone who is in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation if he is elected, sticking with his hardline position after flirting with a softer approach. In a major speech in the border state of Arizona, Trump took a dim view of the 11 million people who crossed into the United States illegally, a week after saying many were "great people" who had lived in the country for years and contributed to American society.
US Republican White House candidate Donald Trump has insisted that Mexico will pay for the border wall he plans to build if he is elected, in a speech delivered after talks with Mexico's president. "Mexico will pay for the wall, believe me," Mr Trump said.
By Joshua Partlow, Sean Sullivan and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post MEXICO CITY - Donald Trump, who has made maligning illegal immigrants from Mexico a cornerstone of his presidential campaign, met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday - striking a remarkably subdued and cooperative tone as he faced a world leader forcefully opposed to his signature proposals. Yet just hours later in a major speech on immigration in Phoenix, Trump had returned to the aggressive tone that has defined much of his campaign.
The GOP nominee reiterated many of his most extreme proposals, outlining a 10-step policy that included building his much-discussed wall , immediately deporting "criminal aliens," and adding an "ideological certification" to ensure that US visa applicants - at least from certain countries - share American values. Per his usual, Trump painted America as a country under siege by criminal aliens and pledged that from his very first hours in the Oval Office, he would commence with the promised deportations.
Donald Trump has dismissed the Mexican President's warning that his country will not pay for a wall along the US border to clamp down on illegal immigration. Hours after he nbsp;made a surprise visit to Mexico, and appeared uncharacteristically toned down as he shared a stage with President Enrique Pena Nieto, Mr Trump unveiled a hard-hitting plan to curb illegal immigration from its nbsp;southern neighbour.
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