Posted on 08/26/2016 8:58:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
For more than a year, Donald Trump took the hardest line on immigration — vowing to deport 11 million illegal immigrants en masse and pillorying his GOP primary rivals as favoring “amnesty.”
But 11 weeks before the election, Trump is suddenly sounding a lot like the opponents he repeatedly ridiculed.
The nominee and his campaign aides are now talking openly about requiring illegal immigrants to pay back taxes and potentially allowing those without criminal records to stay in the country — lines that Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida repeatedly used in the GOP presidential primary. Trump also says that any softening of his position won’t include a path to citizenship — consistent with the way former Florida governor Jeb Bush described how he would provide legal status for undocumented immigrants.
The shift, if it sticks, marks a dramatic turnabout for a nominee who repeatedly attacked Bush, Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and other primary rivals as weak and spineless on immigration, and who repeatedly vowed that he would never waver in his push to deport everyone in the United States who is here illegally.
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More BS.
Yeah, because Mario and Jethro both wanted to enforce existing immigration law.
The media’s new meme is that Trunmp has changed his position to one that we don’t like
He has not.
He said HE WILL FOLLOW THE LAW - which is exactly what we want.
Wow, they are desperate
They are throwing everything they have against Trump and he is still neck to neck with the witch
And he hasn’t even started running commercials yet
They are desperate and scared
They (Hillary) are going to lose badly, very badly and they know it. We are seeing the equivalent of the Gore commercials on black AM radio stations that kept saying “Republicans will barbeque your babies.”
I know what these douches will do - exactly effing nothing.
This story was probably written months ago lol
Trump should do a nightly webcast- where he corrects all the media lies aout him
10 minutes each night, wherever he is, and he could destroy the media.
In fact, he could probaby run his whole campaign from his office this way
Oh. Okay.
Cool story.
....let’s all believe the Washington Post.
Trump just had his first national security briefing, right? Perhaps he now sees that his hard-line stance would incite a war at the border and insurrection within the country. You see, the invasion force is already within our nation.
How will Trump “enforce existing immigration laws”? He wants the Hispanic vote. He is “softening” his plans. What does that even mean?
I’m voting for Trump because he’s not Hillary.
IOW,deporting the 30 million will be very,very,*very* complicated.
No he doesn’t, but then the knee jerks who reacted like ninnies have shown the WaPo how to cause trouble and they are going to keep pushing this.
Don’t fall for this people. Nothing is worse than Hillary!
The new talking points....Boo stupid boo!
Watch the Trump/Anderson Cooper interview.......Trump is hard charging!
No actually he doesn’t. The MSM is just trying to make it sound that way.
Yep, and he should do it live on Periscope :)
The Ministry of Propaganda is lying again to try to take down Trump.
It’s a daily occurence.
Yeb! and the Memorizer Bunny wanted to legalize every illegal alien and completely abandon the rule of law.
“Comprehensively Screw Americans Out Of Their Country”
Trump is sticking to the rule of law.
The Ministry of Propaganda is getting a tremendous amount of pressure from the Cheap Labor Express to take out Trump.
Washington Post should change it’s name to “Democrats Talking Points, Inc”
Washington Compost six months ago: “Trump must moderate his immigration positions to sound more like Rubio and Bush.”
Washington Compost today: “ Oh my God, Teump is moderating his position. How horrible!!”
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