Donald Trump open to ‘softening’ deportation stance

“We want people – we have some great people in this country”.

Mr. Trump said he’s going to build a border wall – “It’s going to happen, 100 percent” – and said he’ll do it “almost immediately” after claiming the White House.

“I did”, Trump replied.

“We have some great, great people in this country but we’re going to follow the laws of this country and what people don’t realize-we have very, very strong laws”, he told Hannity.

Trump has repeatedly declared that if elected, he would deport the 11 million people living in the US illegally.

Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on CNN Tuesday night that Trump’s “tough stance on immigration will not change”, although she acknowledged that he could change on the issue of mass deportations.

On Monday night, Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that he would immediately deport any illegal immigrants who are violent criminals or gang members, something that’s already happening in many cases.

Hannity has “for months peppered” Trump, his family, and his formal advisers on campaign strategy and messaging.

But his new rhetoric on immigration is part of a full-court press by Trump in recent days to improve his standing among minorities, who polls show overwhelmingly favor his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

The GOP nominee has, in the past, called for some kind of deportation force to remove the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.

Last week, sitting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he would meet with Trump, according to a report in Reuters, despite previously comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

And aides said Tuesday that in the coming weeks Trump was planning trips to urban areas to conduct campaign stops he has largely avoided to this point, including stops at charter schools, small businesses and churches in black and Latino communities.

Over the course of his campaign for the White House, Trump has time and time again vowed to build a wall separating Mexico from the USA, adding Mexico will pay for the wall.