Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has stopped talking about creating a "deportation force" and is now saying that the wall he wants to build along the U.S.-Mexico border will have "a big, beautiful door," a change in his rhetoric apparently to prepare for the presidential debates in the coming months and designed to sway undecided voters.
Trump's latest comments concerning the border wall to keep out undocumented migrants are that it will have a "beautiful door," a newly adopted stance whereby he is trying to move away from his racist image, which Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is now trying to exploit in her campaign remarks.
Less than a month remains before Trump and Clinton go head to head in the first presidential debate and the GOP candidate is making a swerve in his campaign comments that has brought criticism from both the right and the left.
The former head of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, Eric Cantor, joked this week that Trump's plan, which would limit the deportation of migrants to those with criminal records, is the same one proposed by his former GOP rival, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Bush does not appear to favor Trump's newly moderate tone and in an interview on Thursday with a New York radio station he said that this was cause for concern because after all the things the magnate has said about deporting all illegal migrants, it seems that he is now completely shifting gears.
Trump, who is trailing Clinton in the voter surveys, has said that if undocumented migrants pay back taxes and do not have criminal records, they will be able to regularize their immigration situation, something that sounds very similar to Bush's proposal, which the mogul harshly criticized during the primaries as providing "amnesty."
"We will work with them," said Trump on Wednesday in an interview with conservative Fox News.
"I meet thousands ... of people on this subject, and I've had very strong people come up to me ... and they've said, 'Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who's been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it's so tough, Mr. Trump,'" said the magnate, whose meteoric rise in popularity among the GOP base during the primaries was largely due to his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Trump is currently doing something that had seemed impossible, attempting to retool his populist rhetoric and proposals to appeal to more moderate voters, Hispanics and African Americans, whose support is crucial if he wants to win the Nov. 8 election.
Source: EFE
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