Trump started off great with his candid and unprecedented remarks about the American victims of criminal alien crimes and that Mexico is where most of them are coming from. This was all contained in a 2011 GAO report, but it was news to the MSM despite the millions of Americans who have been victims.
Trump refused to apologize, rightfully, but the heat got to him and now he is flopping around on the issue like a fish out of water. He felt compelled to say he loved Mexicans, wants more legal immigrants, and came up with the Mike Pence touchback scheme to give most of the illegals amnesty. Most of the other Rep candidates like Cruz who favor amnesty, now say that they will discuss the fate of the lawbreakers already here after the border is secured. It is now deemed the safe response. Trump may revert to that once he gets skewered during the first debate.
Trump is actually acting like a politician. He wants to be loved and will say anything to get people to like him. He just hasn't learned yet how to parse his language so that all sides think he is agreeing with them. If Trump had said attrition thru enforcement, he would have locked up the nomination. Now he will be talking in circles trying to figure out how to get out of the immigration maze.
Not my take on Trump at all. He has been on point on securing the border and deportation, and still is. Your assertions of him now just doesn’t jive with the facts imo. My read is Trump is 100% serious about totally turning this around to the benefit of American citizens over any and all foreigners. We will see how it plays out.
Problem is not legal immigrants. I am a legal immigrant and over the last 55 years since arriving here, I have made acquaintance with 10,000 immigrants or more. I was president of India Association of Chicago.
I know personally many legal immigrants who were sponsored by a relative who is US citizen, many of these immigrants over 65 are parents of US citizens. All these seniors get social security checks and medicaid, even when they have never contributed one red cent to social security. It does not even matter that their sponsors are wealthy.
Immigrants who come here who are highly skilled, such as scientists and doctors and chemical engineers perform productive tasks and are actually helping the US economy. Silicon valley is full of businesses started by immigrants. To reduce those type of immigrants is a fool’s game who do not understand how economy grows.
So, we need to reduce legal immigrants coming here as relatives and have low skills or are seniors.
New Zealand has a smart immigration policy. You can immigrate to NZ if you have skills required in NZ, or bring $1.5 million US cash with you. If you are a senior, you must bring $10 million US cash with you. Because they understand seniors will not work and produce anything and will be a burden on their healthcare system.