Immigration Wonks Struggle to Decipher Trump's Position

[struggle4progress]

AUG 26 2016, 9:17 PM ET
by BENJY SARLIN

... "Right now, clarity seems to be an impossible hurdle for Donald Trump," Ali Noorani, executive director of the pro-reform National Immigration Forum Action Fund, said ...

"Your error was in assuming this campaign acknowledged the accepted meaning of words," added Dara Lind, a former policy aide at America's Voice and current immigration reporter at Vox ...

"I would love to hear verification on his immigration policy," Congressman Steve King of Iowa told MSNBC on Friday. "He said there was 'softening' and now some say that it's a 'hardening'" ...

"I can only say that whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they'll be different tomorrow," <Bush> said in an interview on WABC.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/immigration-wonks-struggle-decipher-trump-s-new-position-n638516

[struggle4progress]

1. Palin warns Trump on deportation U-turn

26 August 2016

... on Friday she told the Wall Street Journal that "wishy-washy positions" on core positions would result in "massive disappointment".

"Parts of the message we heard in the last week are clearly not consistent with the stringent position and message that supporters have received all along," she said ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37198163

[madaboutharry]

2. Trump said today he is going to give a speech;

A beautiful speech, a great speech, an amazing speech, the best speech ever written - better than The Gettysburg Address.....in a couple of weeks.

In a couple of weeks, because hopefully by that time his campaign will have settled on a policy, sort of maybe.

[chillfactor]

3. a waste of time for wonks...

t-rump doesn't know what his policy is...how can anyone else come to any conclusion?

[Baobab]

4. We know that he has no qualms about employing workers under FTA guest worker provisions

that have often been compared to slavery.

Lots of US towns have basically been rescued by immigrants who come from all around the world and often add greatly to communities. They come to stay. They want to be here.

I think that even he would be hard put to find fault with that.

The thing thats scary are these non-immigration work programs that are set up to exploit skilled and unskilled workers for as long as five to seven years. At very low pay. Imagine nurses or teachers or programmers or construction workers working in coercive settings for below US minimum wage and you get the idea. That's what industry wants and they are determined to get it.