Coulter, a hardline opponent of illegal immigration and one of Trump's most prominent media backers, was speaking to The Hill at a party to launch her new book, "In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!"
In the book, Coulter writes that "there's nothing Trump can do that won't be forgiven.
Except change his immigration policies."
That remark would make little sense if her position had to do with the adverse economic impact on American workers of excess low-wage immigration, since obviously Trump could do things to jeopardize American workers even more than low-wage immigration would.
And, anyway, the question is largely theoretical since there is little low-wage immigration going on right now, and the actual controversy is about the fate of the illegals already here, many here long since and long since employed.
And Trump's fiscal, industrial, and anti-regulatory agenda as a whole could be suspected of disfavoring citizen workers far more than allowing many of the 11 million illegals already here to stay.
It could even be argued that any serious effort at such a vast program of ethnic cleansing would involve enormous and prohibitive costs that would fall very heavily on America's 99%.
As for Muslim immigration, though I agree with halting it and severely restricting, if not ending, Muslim temporary visits on student or other visas, those are security measures of less than crucial significance.
Broadly speaking, American Muslims play well with others, all told, compared to Muslims in less fortunate lands.
And I think her chief concern and that of much of the anti-immigration vote is the large population of illegal Latinos in the US.
More evidence, if more were needed, that for her the immigration issue is really not much but a eurowhite nationalist issue, and bait for foolish working class white voters a little too nervous for their own good.
But now that Trump is toying with doing just that, Coulter is placed in the awkward position of having to defend a man who is no longer drawing such a hard line on immigration as he once did.
Trump and his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, have signaled that his promised mass deportation force — which Trump said in the primary would be used to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants — may be a thing of the past.
And on Tuesday night, in a televised town-hall event, Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, "There certainly can be a softening, because we're not looking to hurt people."
And I think her chief concern and that of much of the anti-immigration vote is the large population of illegal Latinos in the US.
More evidence, if more were needed, that for her the immigration issue is really not much but a eurowhite nationalist issue, and bait for foolish working class white voters a little too nervous for their own good.
But now that Trump is toying with doing just that, Coulter is placed in the awkward position of having to defend a man who is no longer drawing such a hard line on immigration as he once did.
Trump and his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, have signaled that his promised mass deportation force — which Trump said in the primary would be used to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants — may be a thing of the past.
And on Tuesday night, in a televised town-hall event, Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, "There certainly can be a softening, because we're not looking to hurt people."
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