King: ‘Happy to hear’ Trump clarify immigration policy

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. In 2014, when Pew last asked the security versus pathway question, “unaccompanied minors from Central America were entering the country in large numbers [relatively speaking]”, said Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew’s director of Hispanic research, via e-mail.

Anyone who avoided deportation would have to pay back taxes and could not become citizens. “And thank god he is still preaching that because, if he were not, then there would be a huge erosion of support”. “I don’t think that she has that, and it’s a shame”.

Republicans at all levels have to understand that endorsing Trump or voting for him doesn’t make you a racist or a woman-hater – neither of which describes the real-life Donald Trump, by the way. I do want to wish him a happy birthday.

Donald Trump: “You have somebody who’s terrific, who’s been here-“Sean Hannity: “Twenty years”.

Trump said “any immigration policy” that he supports, if he’s elected, would have to improve jobs and wages, improve safety and security, and improve the quality of life, for all USA citizens.

The latest of Trump’s “pivots” is more far-reaching than a stab at greater message discipline. Instead, it may be a sign that Trump understands the responsibility awaiting him, should he win the 2016 US presidential elections. “I can be supportive of that.But you have to be careful because you’ve got to have the rule of law”. Shifting my views because it’s political to do it? “Are they gone?” Trump mused out loud. “There is nothing wrong with that”, he said.

In the Washington Post, Philip Bump wrote: Even worse for Trump, a plurality of every demographic save Republicans felt that he appealed to bigotry, including majorities of independents, men, women, whites with or without college degrees, people aged 64 or younger and both whites and nonwhites.

“Who knew -” Limbaugh laughingly said on his radio show Thursday. “Can you imagine what it’s like to be Jeb Bush today?”

“I don’t know who he’s getting it from, but the idea that his base is not going to mind is nonsense”.

The wavering marks a sharp departure from past year, when Trump said in television interviews on NBC and MSNBC that illegal immigrants “have to go” and he vowed to create a “deportation force”. “I’ve seen these rumors he’s now being advised by Roger Ailes, the former head of the Marco Rubio super PAC known as Fox News”. “I don’t know if it’s an online poll”. But concurrent with Conway’s promotion to campaign manager last week came another move by the Trump campaign: bringing on Breitbart News chief Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO.

As I’ve noted elsewhere, this nebulous “certain requirements” language is a favorite of amnesty advocates because it leaves it to the respondent to imagine any type of “requirement” that he needs to justify the idea of legalizing illegal aliens. “Since the convention, since his speech at the convention, he has not made any mistakes until now.The media just makes stuff up, reinterprets his words, doesn’t show people what he says, lies about him”. “But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, “Mr. 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!” “For some people in the country it may seem like a distant thing, but this is in our backyard”, Neri said.

Trump appeared to adopt the same stance on immigration reform that he used to mock his GOP presidential rivals for holding - suggesting that undocumented immigrants who have been living in the country for decades, and who haven’t committed any crimes, should have a chance to stay in the country after they pay back taxes. Bill Clinton started this in 1992 when he said he would name his cabinet to, quote, ‘look like America, ‘ and it turned out to be a color-coded quota cabinet, not a meritocracy.

But on CNN Thursday, Trump tried to clarify again that there is “no amnesty”.