Joe.My.God. LGBT News
From the New York Daily News:
There may be a crack in Donald Trump’s wall. The anti-immigrant GOP presidential candidate said in a TV interview that aired Wednesday night that his time on the campaign trail has made him sympathetic to the plight of many undocumented people who have been in the U.S. for a long time. That position veers from the tough-talking, wall-building Republican’s hate speech, and he also acknowledged there are good people who are in the country illegally. But Trump insisted he’s not going soft on the hot-button immigration issue.
“Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, ‘Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump.’ I have it all the time! It’s a very, very hard thing.”
From Politico:
Asked about Trump’s comments — and their more than passing resemblance to the immigration proposals of Jeb Bush — a spokesperson for the former Florida governor, Kristy Campbell, told POLITICO: “It is unsurprising that Donald Trump is finally faced with reconciling his immigration policy with reality, something Gov. Bush predicted last year.”
Faced with an opponent working to soften his immigration stance, Hillary Clinton’s campaign turned up its rhetoric recalling Trump’s more hard-line stance from earlier in the campaign.
“Here’s a message for Trump: Latinos can see through your cynical ploys,” said Lorella Praeli, Hillary for America’s National Director of Latino Vote. “No play of words can hide the fact that you’ve built your entire campaign on a dangerous agenda that seeks to demonize immigrants, deport 16 million people, build a giant concrete wall and send a deportation force into our communities.”