Trump Again Muddies His Stance On Deporting Undocumented Immigrants

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Donald Trump still won’t offer many specifics on his plan for addressing the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

The Republican nominee delivered a speech last week where he said that if undocumented immigrants want to gain legal status in the U.S., they must leave the country and then return. But in two interviews on Monday, Trump seemed unsure about his plan for undocumented immigrants who have not committed additional crimes upon arriving in the U.S.

“We’re going to make that decision into the future,” Trump told reporters when discussing the possibility for a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants, according to the Wall Street Journal.

And when asked about Republicans who support a path to legalization without forcing immigrants to first leave the country, Trump replied, “Good question. I’m glad you asked it. … That decision will be made,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

Trump also addressed a path to legalization in an interview with ABC News’ David Muir.

“It could be but what’s going to happen is if you’re going to be a citizen, you’re going to leave and you’re going to have to come back,” Trump replied when asked if some undocumented immigrants could stay in the U.S.

Muir also asked how Trump plans to address undocumented immigrants who do not wish to gain legal status.

“They have to make a determination what happens when the border is secure,” Trump replied.

“So you’re open to them staying here undocumented?” Muir then asked.

“I’m going to make a decision, or somebody will. Whether it’s me or somebody else because by that time we’ll have a secure border, we’ll have a wall,” Trump responded.

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  1. Donnie needs to once again keep working on the muddied stance of the hardening of the softening of the detail dodging of the walk-back of the flip-flop of the sarcasm of the stumble of the tongue of the obfuscation of the abbreviated language of what the loser liberal media poorly covered during the earpiece malfunction of the decision that will be made about his original, widely documented comments.

  2. The really depressing part about this story is its total ruse…but damn if Trump doesn’t know his marks in the media. A week after getting played by this very same nonsense, they are eagerly in line to lap it all up again.

  3. It says something about this nation that a thrice divorced, ADHD addled, multiple bankrupted shyster that doesn’t read, has never previously held an elective office in his life and his no discernible, informed, decided positions on the most critical issues facing the country is a candidate for the Presidency put forward by one of the two major parties. When Trump says other nations are laughing at us it’s one of the few cogent observations he makes about much of anything.

  4. You win! I bow to your exquisite formulation…

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