Trump vows to start deportations right after swearing-in ceremony
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump linked illegal immigration and employment Saturday, pledging to start deporting offenders as soon as he is sworn in should he become the White House’s next occupant.
Trump all the while courted the black vote, claiming that the shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin will make African Americans support him, but the move instead triggered a firestorm of criticism.
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Trump all the while courted the black vote, claiming that the shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin will make African Americans support him, but the move instead triggered a firestorm of criticism.
“On Day One, I am going to begin
swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country – including
removing the hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants that have
been released into US communities under the Obama-Clinton administration,”
Trump told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa.
Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary
Clinton served as secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term
in office. The next president will be sworn in on January 20.
“A
vote for Trump is a vote to have a nation of laws, a vote for Clinton is a vote
for open borders,” he stressed.
Details of Trump’s immigration
policies remain scant. He rallied much of his primary support with a
controversial hardline tone against illegal immigrants and his plan to build a
wall on the Mexican border.
Some of his advisors are now
reportedly urging him to tone down his signature policy priority.
Trump
also made appeals to black voters, promising to help African Americans find
jobs.
“Every time an African American
citizen, or any citizen, loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of
that American citizen have been totally violated,” he argued.
Hours before, Trump had tweeted:
“Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago,”
initially misspelling the basketball player’s first name before correcting it
later. “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”
He was referring to the shooting
death on Friday of Nykea Aldridge during an exchange of gunfire between two men
as she pushed a baby stroller in Chicago.
Trump’s comments unleashed a torrent
of criticism spearheaded by actor Don Cheadle, who has starred in such films as
“Hotel Rwanda” (2004), denouncing the bombastic billionaire for trying to score
political points on the back of a murder.
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