Trump promises details on his immigration policy as supporters waver

Trump is scheduled to outline his immigration plan on Wednesday after weeks of heated discussion around whether or not he flip-flopped by softening his rhetoric on illegal immigrants. He maintained that the current system fuels crime and leaves Americans damaged economically by illegal immigrants in the United States.

Second, we are long past the time when the economy was creating unskilled jobs left and right, and we thought we’d be facing labor shortages that could only be remedied by stepped up numbers of immigrants, either acknowledged as such or labeled “guest workers” under the fiction that they and their families would return home.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, beset by questions over whether he is softening his hardline stance on immigration, says he will make a speech on the subject Wednesday in Arizona.

Trump, whose signature campaign promise has been to build a “great wall” on the USA border with Mexico, has distanced himself in recent days from previous vows to mount a “deportation force” to remove the millions already in the country.

And then there’s Trump’s wall.

“I promise you from the first day in office – the first thing I am going to do – the first piece of paper, the first piece of paper that I’m going to sign is we’re going to get rid of these people, day one, before the wall, before anything”, Trump said in Iowa.

The GOP nominee polled an audience last week on the fate of an estimated 11 million people.

The announcement came a day after Mr Trump said he would crack down on illegal immigrants who overstay their visas, as he sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the U.S. immigration system. But now, it appears that Trump may be cracking on that stance.

Trump signaled his shift in thinking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity during a town hall that aired last week by suggesting he might allow some immigrants to stay: “There’s no amnesty, but we would work with them”.

Again, he’s built his entire campaign on how tough on immigration he is.

Ms Kellyanne Conway, Mr Trump’s campaign manager, went even further than Mr Pence, suggesting that Mr Trump no longer favoured the forced removal of illegal immigrants.

This shows to me that he doesn’t actually say what he means, and that he won’t adhere to his promises like many other people believe he will. But any significant shift could disappoint his core supporters.

“For the 11 million people, come on, folks”, Kasich said to Trump.

“Those are the things that Donald Trump is going to answer”. “We all know you can’t pick them up and ship them across, back across the border”.

Now with less than three months before the election, Trump faces a hard path to the White House because of his narrow appeal, and his sky-high disapproval ratings among minorities.