NOTE: Let’s be real here. Candidate Donald Trump is not Alt-Right, nor is he in any way a supporter of ‘White Nationalism’ as accused (and as defined) by the controlled media. However, his immigration speech in Arizona on Wednesday night was clearly a departure from the scripted compassionate drivel most often associated with the mantle of politically correct rot deployed by most public figures. Moreover, he was walking the shoreline of US immigration policy prior to the devastating Immigration Reform Act of 1965 (Here), and this editor detected solid references to Mexico’s own immigration policies (Here), which are some of the ‘harshest’ (sensible) in the world. Example: Last night Trump said that immigrants will be chosen by their ability to be financially self-sufficient …It’s an amazing fact about US immigration debate that this idea is now considered controversial.
And yet….
Not Alt-Right. More Mexican than anything. But then again….
Conservatives cheer Trump immigration reset
by Katie Glueck
So much for the softening.
Immigration hawks are cheering after Donald Trump on Wednesday night delivered a vintage hardline address outlining his deeply conservative views on the subject, after much speculation over whether he was trying to “soften” his approach in an effort to appeal to more moderate voters.
“Wow. This doesn’t sound like “softening.” GO, TRUMP!!!” tweeted conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who a week ago had expressed alarm when Trump said it was difficult to deport people who had been living in the country for decades.
For most of his candidacy, Trump has run on a stridently anti-illegal immigration platform that included a deportation force to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from the United States. In recent days, however, he has suggested that he might not go that far — sowing confusion, in the meantime, about the specifics of his position. Trump’s speech in Phoenix on Wednesday came hours after he appeared in Mexico, standing next to the president of a country he’s spent much of the campaign maligning.
But on Wednesday night Trump delivered an impassioned, aggressive speech underscoring his commitment to ending illegal immigration by building a wall on the southern border, forcing Mexico to pay for it and making clear that all illegal immigrants are subject to deportation. It was the kind of speech that Trump delivered in the GOP primary—but it came less than 70 days before the general election.
“I think it’s arguably the best day of his campaign,” said Brent Bozell, a prominent conservative. “From beginning to end, he had all eyes on him, he did the totally unexpected in going to Mexico, he had by all accounts a very successful trip, then he came back to a rally and gave an exhaustingly specific policy speech on immigration.”
Last week, as Trump deemphasized deportation and publicly mused about what to do about otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants who had been living in America for years—a sharp departure from his calls for a deportation force– some conservative critics slammed his ruminations for smacking of “amnesty.”
“He said some things last week, that he had sympathy for people who have been here a long time, he didn’t want to be breaking up families,” said Roy Beck, the president of NumbersUSA, which advocates for lower immigration levels but, he said, doesn’t encourage mass deportations. “He made clear tonight that the top priority needs to be the American workers. That was excellent.”
“There will be no amnesty,” Trump insisted.
“I think it was important he say that because, look, this is what he ran on,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that backs more restrictive immigration policies. “Had he continued the path that, last week, he seemed to be on, where he was using Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio terminology…all of these pro-amnesty buzzwords, the fact that he was using them was kind of alarming.”
On Wednesday, Krikorian said, Trump “did what he had to do. He needed to make clear he wasn’t flipping to Jeb Bush’s approach,” which, in the eyes of immigration hawks, amounted to “amnesty” by creating too many avenues for undocumented immigrants to gain citizenship.
At times, Trump was unclear about which illegal immigrants would be allowed to remain in the country, and for how long: “People will know that you can’t just smuggle in, hunker down, and wait to be legalized,” he said, and yet, after the system has been reformed “only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those who remain.” But immigration restrictionists gave him credit.
“I was a little concerned that he was thinking about providing leniency to illegal aliens right away, that was my concern last week,” Beck said. “He didn’t rule out leniency tonight, what he said is, we can’t talk about it until our enforcement policies are fully implemented. I think that’s a pretty good answer.”
Added Daniel Horowitz, a writer at Conservative Review, “To sit and focus on and prioritize the philosophical debate over what to do with every illegal already here rather than focus on the broader border and immigration crisis as it relates to the citizenry fundamentally violates the social compact of a nation.”
But, he noted, there is reason to be skeptical: “It’s hard to square this intrepid and morally clear position with some of the things he’s said over the past few weeks, much less for years before running for president. “
Outside of conservative immigration circles, the speech was less well-received: Several Latino leaders who had been vocal Trump supporters told POLITICO they were reconsidering because they found the speech unacceptably harsh. Jacob Monty, previously a member of Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, resigned right after the address.
“I feel like we’ve been had,” said Alfonso Aguilar, a prominent Latino conservative and Trump surrogate who is considering pulling his support.
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