Wavering on immigration, Donald Trump talks tough in Iowa

“On Day One, I am going to begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country – including removing the hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants that have been released into United States communities under the Obama-Clinton administration”, Trump told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa. However, he did not delve much into other details about his plans.

Hours after State Department officials confirmed on Monday that FBI investigators had uncovered almost 15,000 additional emails that Clinton’s attorneys had failed to disclose during their probe into her email practices, Trump called for a special prosecutor to take over the case.

Numbers from the Reuters poll are similar to another national poll – this on by Quinnipiac University – that showed Clinton with support of 45 percent of likely voters compared to Trump’s 38 percent.

Clinton, meanwhile, followed up on Thursday’s tough speech by saying that Trump’s temperament and divisiveness made him unfit for the White House. That poll, released on Friday (August 26). shows her lead down from a peak this month of 12 points.

“But my priority is the well-being of 300 million American citizens, including millions of Hispanic citizens and legal residents who want a secure border, a safe and drug-free community, and a growing economy”, Trump said.

On Wednesday, Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website Wikileaks, said his organization planned to release more information linked to Clinton. Regardless, he has somewhat softened his stance on illegal immigration, and it appears as though he will mainly be targeting “criminal illegal immigrants”, as Breitbart reports.

Meanwhile, Trump continues to send mixed signals on immigration.

Trump gained popularity with the conservatives after introducing a hardline stance on immigration, with one of his proposals seeing him infamously promise to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump said, “Every time an African-American citizen, or any citizen, loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of that American citizen have been violated”.

“It breaks all of our hearts to see it, it’s awful”, Trump said. He has denied that he is flip-flopping on his signature issue.

It’s the first time in more than a year of crisscrossing the country that the real-estate mogul has spoken directly to African-Americans at large, and asked for their support.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton managed to shift the conversation this week from whether her family foundation’s donors were offered special access at the State Department to whether her Republican rival, Donald Trump, is a racist.