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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Here here!
The last few days have been very taxing. The Debbie Downers keep popping up like flash fires. Frankly, I’m tired of playing bucket brigade with the concerned ones.
Why can’t conservatives/republicans pull together, in the same direction, ever! Let’s learn one thing from the Dems. They never eat their own.
Wow, LOL...
No need to make excuses since his plan is the same as always; Secure the border, get the bads one out, build a was, and enforce the friggen current law.
“but you’ve gotta admit that such a scenario would result in repeated cries for impeachment.”
Let them cry.
The use of the “soften” in the interview was what lead to this. Trump immediately reiterated that enforcing existing laws was what he wants to do. Personally, I think enforcing existing laws (especially ones pertaining to employers and sanctuary cities) will accomplish a lot more in the long run than than any wall.
More power to him. If he follows through he’ll have done more on the issue than any president since Eisenhower.
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