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    Donald Trump: 'I'm not flip-flopping' on immigration

    Donald Trump: 'I'm not flip-flopping' on immigration

    By Tal Kopan, CNN
    Updated 4:38 PM ET, Mon August 22, 2016

    Washington (CNN)It's still undecided whether Donald Trump will continue to support forced deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US, his campaign manager said Sunday. But Trump himself insisted Monday, "I'm not flip-flopping."

    "I'm not flip flopping," the Republican presidential nominee told Fox News on the issue Monday. "We want to come up with a fair but firm process. Fair but firm." He did not, however, provide any specifics or elaborate on his position further.

    When asked by repeated questioning by CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" on Sunday whether Trump stood behind the idea of a deportation task force, Kellyanne Conway, Trump's new campaign manager, responded, "to be determined."

    Conway was responding to reports about what was said in a meeting Trump held on Saturday with a Hispanic advisory council. Sources in the room told BuzzFeed that Trump spoke about a "humane and efficient" way to work with undocumented immigrants in the country currently, which was characterized by BuzzFeed as a way to legalize some and let them stay.

    That would stand in sharp contrast with a central theme of the Trump campaign since the beginning, a hardline position on immigration focused on removing people in the country illegally.

    Conway disputed that Trump presented a reversal of his position in the meeting.

    "So what Donald Trump said yesterday in that meeting ... varied little from what he has said publicly," Conway said. "What he supports is to make sure we enforce the law, that we are respectful of those Americans who are looking for jobs, and that we are fair and humane to those who live among us."

    Bash played a clip of Trump speaking about a deportation force last fall, saying it would be done "humanely," repeatedly asking if that was still the position of the campaign or whether Trump was backing off.

    That was when Conway responded: "To be determined."

    Early Sunday evening the campaign of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton released a statement scoffing and Trump's potential change of heart on deportation.

    "Donald Trump's immigration plan remains the same as it's always been: tear apart families and deport 16 million people from the United States," said campaign chair John Podesta.

    Jose Fuentes, a Trump supporter and the former attorney general of Puerto Rico, was at the roundtable with Trump on Saturday, and said he did not walk away with the interpretation that Trump was open to legalization for some undocumented immigrants.

    He said it was Trump who brought up the issue of those who are in the US illegally and asked the group to share their ideas on how to deal with them. Fuentes said that Trump used the language of wanting to handle the issue in a "fair," "humane," and "legal" way, but Fuentes said he didn't automatically take that to mean that Trump was going allow some to stay or have legal status.

    "He wanted to hear our ideas on how to deal with it. He requested that we put it in writing," Fuentes told CNN. "But that doesn't mean he's going to take them or that he's changed his mind."

    Fuentes, who said he was sitting right across the table from Trump, described the Republican nominee's interest in Hispanic issues as "sincere" and said he was "impressed" by Trump's understanding of the different issues important to Hispanic voters of various backgrounds.

    Fuentes said he didn't know why some walked away with the idea that Trump would change his position on deportations. He wondered whether it was because Trump seemed to place more emphasis on dealing with the issue than he has before -- that he was willing to hear different ideas and consider them.

    "That was very revealing," he said. "That may have caused the wrong impression."

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/21/politi...ym>/index.html
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    See? Univision lied, the immigration lawyer who spoke them either lied himself or misrepresented the "wrong impression".

    The former Attorney General of Puerto Rico said Trump said nothing about changing his position, nothing about legalization, nothing of the kind.

    Kellyanne, you stupid stupid woman. "to be determined" .... what a bunch of rubbish and then you go on and on in 2 more interviews after blowing one and blow two more. You need to stay behind the desk if you stay with this campaign and let Trump or someone who knows him far better than you do and also knows his policies address the public.
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