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 wont 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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ROTFLMAO!
There’s a lot of this crap on FR sadly. When confronted those spewing this talking point seem quick (too quick, IMO) to say “Oh I support Trump—longer than anyone I do just read my posts.” They are not very adept at concealing their motives, thankfully.
Vote Trump 2016
Well, that does it, Washington Post, you've convinced me. I'm with Hillary!
Trump should do a nightly webcast- where he corrects all the media lies about him”
...liberals do that with “Media Matters”. But that’s to deflect any truths about their dems.
HUH? I have never heard the Donald ever mention anything about PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP as Rubio was so fond of telling us for years.
And Bush and Rubio certainly never proposed building a wall!
It means nothing. You swerved into the truth.
Why would you say war at the border and insurrection within?
Where do you live?
Substantiate you statements please.
“...How will Trump enforce existing immigration laws? He wants the Hispanic vote...”
The only legitimate Hispanic votes are from American citizen Hispanics, not “illegals”...Quite a lot of the citizen Hispanics favor enforcing the standing immigration laws as they have went through all the steps necessary for citizenship and feel cheated by those who have not...
I love this idea
What crap.
Most of the complications have been policy decisions by administrations of both parties, not the law.
Deportations can be sped up.
Most of the 30 million will find their own way home like they got here when enforcement begins. They didn’t get here overnight and it will take time to send them home.
Once employment and benefits dry up many will leave.
The ones who don’t we will have to deport.
Paying for the wall is easy.
$24 billion dollars are sent to Mexico every year.
Tax it 10%. Wall paid for.
We must remember that the WAPO lies all the time, constantly, about everything.
Why would that not include what Mr. Trump says?
More Bull Crap from the Gutters of America...I wished people would post some positive things...there are so many happy things out there, why do we live in such a negative world?
Fishing, different tours people have been on, there are so many great things to be hearing about, instead we get the Clinton Campaign Media Office telling us what we are going to read and to live by...
Not me...
Never heard the term Jeb Wall or Rubio Wall.
I’ve posted this before:
Regardless of the path Trump takes through the immigration/terrorism issues, you know hell always be a fighter to bring immigration under control.
Regardless of what Hillary says, you know she wants to let them all in and make them citizens.
“$24 billion dollars are sent to Mexico every year.”
That shit needs to stop.
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