A Change In Trump’s Immigration Policy Probably Won’t Sway Voters

Donald Trump is suggesting he could favor “softening” laws dealing with immigrants living in the United States illegally.

Instead, Trump will tape a town hall event – also on Fox News – Tuesday night in Texas.

He added, “We are going to follow the laws of this country”.

Focusing efforts on immigrants in the country illegally who have committed violent crimes, rather than an en-masse deportation effort, would be a policy much more in line than what Hillary Clinton is proposing than what Trump had previously touted.

He continued: “Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out”. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump, ‘ I have it all the time!

“I will appoint federal officers who will work hand and hand with police officers, and citizens, who will help to dismantle gangs, cartels, and criminal syndicates terrorizing our people”. “How many think they should go through a process that maybe gives ’em a chance?” “We knew it during the primary, and now it is apparent he has duped his most loyal supporters on the issue they care about most, immigration”.

GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a leading immigration hardliner, said in an interview that “I have some concerns at this point” over Trump’s stances. However, most Republicans (79 percent) favor building a wall along the entire border with Mexico, the survey found – a policy Trump stood by on Wednesday night, and one that has been echoed at almost every Trump rally.

“And who’s going to pay for the wall?” What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country.

The reversal on deportations, though, comes after Trump called for a “deportation force” during the GOP primary, and went after fellow Republican candidates like Jeb Bush for their positions.

More than a year later, Trump, now the Republican nominee, is preparing to wade back into the heated immigration debate. “There is no path to legalization unless they leave the country and come back”, he said. “Bush predicted past year”, Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell told Politico. “Chuck, we either have a country, or we don’t have a country”.

Trump met Saturday with an advisory group of Hispanic supporters – including businesspeople, politicians and community leaders – and emerged vowing to “come up with a fair but firm process” for addressing the issue of about 11 million undocumented immigrants residing in the US.

Trump, it had become clear, is thinking about changing his immigration policies.

Trump pressed on with his commitment to this plan at hundreds of rallies where his supporters frequently cited Trump’s hardline stance on immigration as the rallying cry that drew them to Trump’s unconventional candidacy. In a last-ditch attempt to improve his dismal standing with Hispanics and moderate suburban whites, Trump may well lose part of the anti-immigration base that propelled him to the nomination.