Trump’s latest farce: “Humane” mass deportations

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The big question this week among Trumpologysts — practitioners of the new science of trying to decipher Donald Trump’s sequences of half-sentences that pass for speeches — is whether he has softened his rhetoric on immigration. I say he has, although his reasons have nothing to do with efforts to win the Latino vote.

Granted, Trump told Fox News on Monday that “I’m not flip flopping” on immigration. And hours earlier, his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway had denied media reports that Trump was considering abandoning his proposal to create a “deportation force” to expel the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, after she herself had conceded a day earlier that such changes were “to be determined.”

But the fact is, Trump has made a big shift in his immigration rhetoric, which had been the pillar of his presidential campaign. He no longer talks about a “deportation force” or “mass deportations, ” and instead stresses that his policy will be “firm, ” “fair” and “humane.”

Asked at another Fox News show — yes, it’s looking more and more like “Trump News Network” — on Tuesday whether immigration laws should be made flexible to accommodate undocumented people who contribute to society, Trump responded: “There certainly can be a softening, because we’re not looking to hurt people.”

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