Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign criticized Donald Trump’s immigration policy on Sunday, after some of his campaign officials sought to clarify the candidate’s position on mass deportations earlier in the day.
{mosads}”Donald Trump has stated very clearly throughout his campaign that he will deport everyone who is undocumented, something that was reinforced in his speech in Arizona last Wednesday,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in statement Sunday afternoon,
according to CNN.
“What we saw today is Mike Pence and Trump’s top campaign officials attempt to mislead voters about their mass deportation policy by using soft words to describe harsh tactics — one of the oldest tricks in the book,” Mook added.
“Immigrant families know the meanings of ‘humane’ and ‘fair’ and can see straight through their cynical ploys. Trump’s message to immigrant families is clear: everyone must go.”
On Sunday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
dodged a question about whether a Trump administration would deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
After being pressed multiple times, Trump’s running mate said the GOP nominee is focused on the “more than 300 million people who are citizens of this country and are here legally in this country and driving policies in immigration that will work for them, work for the future of our nation.”
Pence said Trump laid out a roadmap last week to end illegal immigration in the country, highlighting the GOP nominee’s 10-point plan.
“And with regard to anyone that remains after all of that is done, I think what you heard Donald Trump say is that we’ll give consideration, working with the Congress, in a new and reformed immigration system, to consider it at that time,” Pence said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said criminal undocumented immigrants will go “immediately,” but did not detail what would happen to non-criminal undocumented immigrants.
“He also said that, once you enforce the law, once you get rid of the criminals, once you triple the number of ICE agents, once you secure the southern border, once you turn off the jobs magnet, jobs and benefit magnet, then we’ll see where we are,” Conway said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“And we don’t know where we’ll be. We don’t know who will be left. We don’t know where they live, who they are. That’s the whole point here, that we’ve actually never tried this.”
The Trump campaign has been facing scrutiny about its policy regarding mass deportations. In an immigration speech last week, the GOP nominee laid out a 10-point hard-line immigration plan. In the speech, he vowed to build a wall along the Southern border and warned no one in the country illegally would be exempt from deportation.
The next day, Trump
said there was “quite a bit of softening” on some of his immigration proposals.
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