Saturday, July 25, 2015

CS Monitor: Merit-based migrants: Is Donald Trump softening on illegal immigration? - Could anyone be this naive? Govt would simply declare everyone meritorious. --tma


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Merit-based migrants: Is Donald Trump softening on illegal immigration?

Donald Trump's latest stance on immigration reform suggests that he wants a merit-based system to allow more "outstanding" individuals to remain in the country.


If somebody’s been outstanding, we try and work something out.”
This doesn’t sound like something Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would say about illegal immigrants. But that’s exactly what he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday.
Trump proposed a “merit system” to deal with illegal immigrants in the US now, saying “some of these people have been here, they’ve done a good job. You know, in some cases, sadly they’ve been living under the shadows.” ...
     Hope a mistake, but if caving this early, imagine after the nomination.