Donald Trump’s hard turn on immigration in a speech in Arizona on Wednesday has sparked a sense of betrayal among members of his Hispanic advisory council, who had hoped to see a more compassionate approach to immigration.
“We will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall,” Trump said. He added: “Within ICE I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice just like Hillary Clinton has evaded justice, OK?”
Former Trump Hispanic Adviser and a member of the council Jacob Monty resigned shortly after the Arizona speech. “I couldn’t be part of the charade,” he told me Thursday night, adding “I didn’t want to be responsible of leading people astray.”...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/donald-trump-hispanic-republicans/498419/?utm_source=feed

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