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Likely Voter
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Junior Chimp
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« on: July 25, 2015, 03:03:06 PM »
« edited: July 25, 2015, 03:25:18 PM by Likely Voter »

You might think that Trump is for reducing legal immigration, building a wall across the entire Mexico border and deporting the current undocumented, but this week when pressed on those issues it turns out he actually isn't.  And some people are starting to notice....

Weekly Standard: Trump Suggests He May Be Open To Amnesty &
 Trump: We Should 'Work Something Out' for Illegals With 'Merit'

Daily Caller: Donald Trump On Amnesty: 'If Somebody's Been Outstanding, We Try And Work Something Out' [VIDEO]

CSMonitor: Merit-based migrants: Is Donald Trump softening on illegal immigration?

IBT: Election 2016: Donald Trump Mum On Amnesty, Immigrants' Futures

Bloomberg: Trump Says He's 'Big Believer' in Merit-Based Immigration System

CNN: What is Trump's actual position on immigration?

Is this the thing that will bring down Trump? That he really isnt as hardline on his signature issue as his bloviating might indicate?

Seems to me that someone like Scott Walker has an opportunity to get to the right of Trump on immigration, just like Romney did to Perry and Gingrich. Take a page out of the Rove playbook. You dont attack someone on their weekness, but on their strength.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2015, 10:54:49 AM »

Apparently Trump saw this vulnerability and he has now clarified....
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/politics/donald-trump-immigration-plan-healthcare-flip-flop/

So he is for mass deportation and amnesty. Unclear why we would go to the trouble of sending all of the 'good people' back to their home countries only to 'bring em back', not to mention the logisitics and cost of the whole thing. But it's Trump so best not to dig too deep.
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2015, 06:38:12 PM »

The editor of Breitbart has picked up on Trump's comments to CNN (about deporting all the illegals  and then bringing them back legally). ....
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http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2015/07/30/trump-goes-mushy-incoherent-on-immigration/
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