Suddenly it’s Trump sounding soft on illegal immigration

It will apparently be on the 442nd day of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, during a speech Wednesday in Arizona, that the Republican nominee will finally outline his detailed policy plans on his campaign’s signature issue, immigration.

Trump’s apparent suggestion to offer some undocumented immigrants a form of legal status resembles positions offered by other Republicans during the primary fight – stances Trump cited to vanquish his opponents.

Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that there is “not a path to legalization unless people leave the country if they come back in, and then they have to start paying taxes”.

Trump also called for an end to “sanctuary cities”, or municipalities that have placed restrictions on local law enforcement contacting the federal government to begin deportation proceedings when an undocumented person is identified or arrested. “I think that they are trying to find a way to explain – well, for Donald Trump to articulate to Americans a very complex issue and how he feels about it”.

When asked about how he’d handle someone who came to the country illegally but has been living here for 20 years and committed no other crimes, Trump said, “we have to follow the laws of our country”. I think it’s a very important thing.

If that immigration plan sounds familiar, it’s because it is ― pro-reform Republicans have been promising the same for years.

Even numerous far-right groups that have backed Trump expressed concern at his potential shift on the issue. While half of Trump supporters believe immigrants commit more crimes – a belief statistics find to be patently false – the poll found 67 percent of Americans say immigrants are no more likely to commit crimes than US citizens.

Now you too can set the candidate’s immigration policy.

An impossibly tough stance on immigration – including an “ideological test”, a “deportation force”, and a big, attractive border wall – has been the foundation of Trump’s campaign since day one.

Trump has, in the past, bragged about hiring immigrants and has taken the position that illegal immigrants should not be rounded up and sent packing. He talked incessantly about his big, handsome wall on the country’s southern border and how Mexico would pay for it. She told ABC News that she wants Trump “to dump whomever the moron is who told him Americans are staying up at night anxious about how people who broke our laws entering, broke our laws staying here, broke our laws taking jobs, how comfortable they are”.

Still, Coulter said she still backed Trump, saying this has been his only mistake to date.

Further, the Republican presidential nominee, who has stood by the term “anchor baby” to refer to children born in the United States to noncitizen parents, affirmed in Wednesday’s town hall that he was still opposed to birthright citizenship, the constitutional right of all children born in the U.S. to citizenship. But I assure you, nothing has changed in terms of the policies’.

Pierson continued: ‘He does not want to allow people to stay in this country illegally. I say he has, although his reasons have nothing to do with efforts to win the Latino vote. But no. It turns out that white voters in the exurbs are a little put off by the whole rapists/thugs/wall schtick, and aren’t that keen on an army of jackbooted immigration police rounding up Mexicans and hauling them back south. “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”. After the party conventions, Democrat Hillary Clinton took a big lead, thanks in part to softness from Republicans – which itself was partly sparked by skepticism from college-educated voters and women.

“Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out”, Trump told his own political masseuse, FOX News” Sean Hannity, this week.

“I could certainly see that being used against Kasich if he doesn’t go along with that”, he said. And if you are only now recognizing deporting 11 million people en masse is heartless you are dumber than dirt. “And frankly, it’s leadership and it’s presidential”, she said.