Aides say Donald Trump may be reconsidering his vow to deport 11 million people
Aides say Donald Trump may be reconsidering his vow to deport 11 million people
Brian Bennett reporting from Washington
A day after Donald Trump met with a group of Latino supporters, top aides suggested Sunday that the GOP nominee may be reconsidering his signature campaign promise to round up and deport 11 million people who are in the country illegally.
His new campaign manger, Kellyanne Conway, was asked on CNN’s "State of the Union" if Trump still wants a “deportation force” to remove everyone in the country illegally, as he has vowed repeatedly on the campaign trail.
“To be determined,” she said.
Trump is “wrestling” with how to remove those in the country illegally, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a close advisor to Trump on immigration matters, said on CBS’s "Face the Nation."
Apprehending and removing the estimated 11 million people who either entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas would cost about $400 billion and could reduce U.S. gross domestic product by $1 trillion, according to a study released this year by the free-market think tank American Action Forum.
The aides' comments were the latest sign that Trump's newly installed management team may be trying to broaden his appeal to stem his steady fall in the polls with less than three months until election day.
Trump has never explained how he intended to find, detain and deport millions of people, many of whom have built businesses and families in the U.S., or how he would pay for it even if it passed judicial scrutiny.
He has compared his proposal to "Operation Wetback," a controversial removals program carried out in 1954 under President Dwight Eisenhower. More than 1 million people were apprehended, mostly from border areas in Texas and California, and sent back to Mexico.
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Brian Bennett reporting from Washington
A day after Donald Trump met with a group of Latino supporters, top aides suggested Sunday that the GOP nominee may be reconsidering his signature campaign promise to round up and deport 11 million people who are in the country illegally.
His new campaign manger, Kellyanne Conway, was asked on CNN’s "State of the Union" if Trump still wants a “deportation force” to remove everyone in the country illegally, as he has vowed repeatedly on the campaign trail.
“To be determined,” she said.
Trump is “wrestling” with how to remove those in the country illegally, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a close advisor to Trump on immigration matters, said on CBS’s "Face the Nation."
Apprehending and removing the estimated 11 million people who either entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas would cost about $400 billion and could reduce U.S. gross domestic product by $1 trillion, according to a study released this year by the free-market think tank American Action Forum.
The aides' comments were the latest sign that Trump's newly installed management team may be trying to broaden his appeal to stem his steady fall in the polls with less than three months until election day.
Trump has never explained how he intended to find, detain and deport millions of people, many of whom have built businesses and families in the U.S., or how he would pay for it even if it passed judicial scrutiny.
He has compared his proposal to "Operation Wetback," a controversial removals program carried out in 1954 under President Dwight Eisenhower. More than 1 million people were apprehended, mostly from border areas in Texas and California, and sent back to Mexico.
READ MORE: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/tra...
Another one of Donald Trump's Flip Flop's. This is one of Trump's key signature programs, WOW!