Trump in 2012 on deporting many undocumented immigrants: 'I don't believe in that'

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

(CNN)Just four years ago, Donald Trump took a drastically different position on what is now his central issue: deporting undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Since he announced his candidacy last June, Trump has promised to build a wall on the US border with Mexico and at various times said he would, as president, deport all or many of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the country. However, in an June 2012 interview with CNBC's Squawk Box reviewed by CNN's KFile, Trump said he didn't believe in deporting undocumented immigrants who, he said, "had done a great job."

Asked about his views on immigrant labor, Trump said, "You know my views on it and I'm not necessarily, I think I'm probably down the middle on that also. Because I also understand how, as an example, you have people in this country for 20 years, they've done a great job, they've done wonderfully, they've gone to school, they've gotten good marks, they're productive — now we're supposed to send them out of the country, I don't believe in that, Michelle, and you understand that. I don't believe in a lot things that are being said."

Trump comments came in the context of a discussion of the Supreme Court's decision a day before on the state of Arizona's tough immigration law. Trump said "both sides lost" in the ruling, which struck down key parts of the law but upheld a part of the law allowing law enforcement to check the immigration status of a person when enforcing other laws.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/23/politics/trump-2012-immigration/index.html

[Ccarmona]

1. Name Any Issue

Trump has been on both sides

[RBInMaine]

3. He changes positions according to what Fox News says needs to be said to their viewers.

As I understand it, Trump won his primary because he studied Fox News and right wing talk radio and became their celebrity voice. Probably how he really feels inside, but he is a con man so studies what he needs to study to play his chumps.

[Mc Mike]

2. The real dRumpf was replaced by a Russian operative that Putin

had plastic surgerized to look like dRumpf. They got everything right but the hair.

The real drumpf had a magificent luxurious mane of hair. That's the only way you can tell the Russkie operative apart from the actual patriotic, humane, liberal drumpf.

[mdbl]

4. He didn't want to lose his hotel workers at the time

If were pres, he could just sponge off the government.