Jacob Monty, who resigned from Donald Trump’s Hispanic Advisory Council after the Republican nominee’s Wednesday speech on immigration, lamented on Thursday that his hope that Trump would soften his policy on deportation disappeared Wednesday night.
“I was actively defending him on media because I thought he heard us. We met with him a week and a half ago. He indicated that he knew we needed to do something humane for the non-criminals that are here, the 11 million. He brought it up. That showed us that he had studied the issue. And we had a lot of hope. And frankly, we saw a lot of hope,” Monty said on CNN.
“We saw nothing but positive signs. And they were all dashed yesterday with a speech that was not Republican and not compassionate at all,” he added.
Monty said that he supports much of Trump’s immigration policy, like building a wall, but that he cannot stand behind the Republican nominee’s position on deportation of undocumented immigrants.
“When he called for the deportation of DACA recipients, that is just unrealistic, cruel, not productive for the economy because they’re working, they’re going to school. The biggest thing for me is when he completely punted on the issue of what to do with the 11 million when we discussed that with him,” he said. “He completely punted on that issue. And when I saw that, I had to resign because I’m not going to be a prop for his image like the president of Mexico was yesterday.”
He said that he left the advisory council because he is “unwilling to be part of his propaganda machine.”
“It was the right thing for me to do to try to see if we could reason with him and get him to articulate a plan that was realistic and Republican. But what we heard last night was not a Republican plan,” he said. “That was pure populist propaganda.”
Blindsided? Seriously? You just now figured out what Donnie Drumpf has been up to?
And you’re still not going to vote for HRC, right?
Better beef up the caffeine in the morning, son.
Fool me once, shame on you…Listen to Trump, be a dumbass.
Trump: I want him to help build a wall and then I will throw him and his family on the other side. I don’t care if they are legal or not. I am tough on Rapists and like them only in White.
I’m getting all tingly about Trump’s outreach to the blacks when he goes to the church and in interviewed by mega-millionaire, humble preacher Mark Burns. What could go wrong?
Facist, sir. The word you are searching for is facist. That was pure facist propaganda.