Trump’s flip-flopped immigration policy is gonna look a lot like Obama’s – per Trump!

Last night on the BiLLO show Trump laid out where he’s now headed with this immigration policy, and it’s gonna look a lot like the policy Obama has been implementing for the last 8 years.

Via TPM, h/t: NRO:

“We’re going to obey the existing laws. Now, the existing laws are very strong. The existing laws, the first thing we’re gonna do, if and when I win, is we’re gonna get rid of all of the bad ones. We’ve got gang members, we have killers, we have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country,” he said on Fox News. “As far as everybody else, we’re going to go through the process. What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country, Bush the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I’m gonna do the same thing.”

O’Reilly then mentioned detention centers, prompting Trump to quickly shoot down the idea of keeping undocumented immigrants in detention centers.

“You don’t have to put them in a detention center,” Trump said.

“I never even heard the term. I’m not gonna put them in a detention center,” he added. “We want to do it in a very humane manner.”

Nice. Praise Obama and Bush on immigration, and vow to do the same thing.

Here’s more:

The Fox host also brought up Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback,” through which the former president deported hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants and dropped them off in remote areas of Mexico in the 1950s. Trump had cited this effort earlier in the campaign, but disagreed with O’Reilly’s assessment on Monday that Trump planned to “emulate” Eisenhower’s model.

“I said that it’s something that has been done at a very strong manner. I don’t agree with that. I’m not talking about detention centers. I have very, very good relationships with a lot of people, a lot of Hispanic people. We’re talking about it. We are going to get rid of the bad ones. The bad ones are going to be out of here fast. And you know, there are plenty of bad ones, gang members, gang leaders,” Trump told O’Reilly.

“They are going to be out of here so fast, your head will spin. As far as the rest, we’re going to go through the process, like they are now, perhaps with a lot more energy and we’re gonna do it only through the system of laws that — are in existence,” he continued.

Though Trump appeared to soften his policy on deportation, he reiterated at a Monday night rally in Akron, Ohio, that he still plans on building a wall along the southern border if he is elected president.

Well I suppose if we actually get a wall out of Trump, should be be elected, then he’ll have done more than any of his predecessors.

Considering the way he’s flip-flopping on his immigration policies, however, I wouldn’t put any money on him actually building a wall.


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