illegal immigration
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Trump stand-ins struggle to speak for and defend nominee
Donald Trump isn’t making it easy for top supporters and advisers, from his running mate on down, to defend him or explain some campaign positions. Across the Sunday news shows, a parade of Trump stand-ins, led by vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, couldn’t say whether Trump was sticking with or changing a central promise to boot the roughly 11 million people…
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Trump immigration ‘softening’ reflects voter confusion on issue
Dean Green supports Donald Trump partly because of the GOP presidential nominee’s tough, deport-them-all stance on illegal immigration. But the 57-year-old Republican paused as he complained about U.S. immigration policy and acknowledged that deporting all 11 million people in the U.S. illegally would separate families. “I don’t want to break up families,” Green said. It has been 30…
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Trump redirecting message on illegal immigration
Donald Trump defeated 16 rivals in the Republican primaries by being the most anti-immigrant of them all, promising to build a giant wall on the border and deport millions. He labeled opponents like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as weak and amnesty-loving, and his extreme rhetoric pushed the entire debate over immigration to the right.…
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Trump’s evolving immigration plan compared to Clinton, Obama
Donald Trump’s new line on immigration – “fair, but firm” – is leaving both Republicans and Democrats with the same question: Is the famously hard-line GOP nominee softening his approach? His campaign insists his position is “exactly the same” in principle. But even Trump acknowledged Tuesday there “could certainly be a softening, because we’re not looking to hurt people.”…
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In latest hedge, Trump says immigration laws can be softened
Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to “softening” laws dealing with immigrants in the country illegally, the latest sign that the Republican presidential nominee is considering easing the hardline stance he has taken since the beginning of his campaign. Trump, taping a town hall in Austin, Texas, for Fox News, was asked by…
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Trump vows ‘fair, but firm’ approach to illegal immigration
Republican Donald Trump promised Monday to be “fair, but firm” toward the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally, a shift in tone that raised questions on whether he’s backtracking from previous pledges to push for mass deportations. The billionaire businessman, whose hard-line approach to immigration and fierce rhetoric propelled him to the GOP…
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Former modeling agent says he got Melania Trump’s visa
Melania Trump obtained a work visa before she modelled professionally in the United States in the mid-1990s, her former modeling agent told The Associated Press. That appeared to back up her statements as recently as Thursday that she adhered to U.S. immigration laws as she went from a Slovenian model years later to an American…
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YESTERYEAR: Owens signs immigration bills, DeGette rips Bush stem cell veto
Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Bill Owens ended a “scorching hot July” by signing 10 controversial immigration bills that emerged from a special session called at the beginning of the month. The centerpiece of the bipartisan package was a piece of legislation Owens called “the toughest law dealing with…
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Polman: Donald Trump’s fact-free marketing of fear
I knew it would be a long night when Donald Trump launched his acceptance speech with a promise to speak “honestly,” telling the crowd, “There there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else.” As if. When a con man offers to sell you Arizona land with…
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Hickenlooper: Special session would only come as a result of a ‘different type of compromise’
?The talk began almost the minute the legislative session ended May 11 and it has grown ever since. Gov. John Hickenlooper, frustrated by the fact that lawmakers failed to pass a proposal to reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee and add hundreds of millions of dollars to the general fund, was going to call them…