Trump Adopts Jeb Bush’s Immigration Policy After Mocking It For Months

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump made his sharpest departure yet from his previous statements on immigration, suggesting he would support a policy allowing some undocumented immigrants to remain in the country, at a town hall on Wednesday night.

Trump has built his campaign on harsh rhetoric about immigrants. Over the past year, the candidate has smeared immigrants as criminals and rapists, threatened to make Mexico pay to build a border wall, promised to create a “deportation force” to round up and kick out millions of people, suggested creating a database to track Muslims entering the country, and mocked other Republicans who take a softer approach to the issue.

But as the general election draws near, Trump appears to be attempting to moderate his stance and soften his rhetoric about the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

On Wednesday, during the second part of a two-night town hall that aired on Fox News, Trump drew a clear distinction between two types of undocumented immigrants: a “bad” criminal immigrant who should be deported and a person who’s lived here for decades for whom deportation would be a “hard thing” to consider....
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