Trump's immigration speech

Trump Makes Nice In Mexico, Talks Tougher Than Ever Just Hours Later In Phoenix

The trip to Mexico and the moderation in tone of the joint statements after the meeting were Conway's doing.

But Phoenix was pure Bannon.

[A]s night fell in Phoenix, back in the U.S.A., Trump mounted the stage in prime time and quickly caught fire. 

He poured forth an hourlong harangue against all things alien, highlighting the lurid crimes of a handful of illegal immigrants as if to define the character of millions. 

He also promised to build "a beautiful wall" across the entire U.S.-Mexico border and create a "deportation task force" that would eventually guarantee that "the bad ones are gone."

On the subject of the wall, Trump departed from his script to assure his listeners that Mexico would indeed pay for it — adding, "They may not know it yet, but they will." 

In so doing, he as much as acknowledged that Peña Nieto had told him something different earlier in the day.

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At some point, Trump allowed, "we will bring back the good ones." 

[Illegals whose only crime is that they are here illegally will have to leave and "get in line" according to normal rules - that he aims to tighten and alter - of immigration.

According to the editors of the account of the hourlong harangue,  

According to the State Department, there are currently 1.3 million Mexicans who are waiting in line for a visa. Only a small fraction have any realistic hope of seeing a visa anytime soon.]

But moments after making this concession to what he has called "being humane about it," Trump was filling the stage with the grieving parents of people killed by immigrants in the country illegally.

Trump offered some key points to guide immigration reform.

From that hourlong harangue:

The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in order to achieve the following goals:

• To keep immigration levels, measured by population share, within historical norms

• To select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society, and their ability to be financially self-sufficient. We take anybody, come on in, just anybody. Not anymore. You know, folks, it's called a two-way street. It's a two-way street.

• We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others — remember, under a Trump administration it's called "America First."

• To choose immigrants based on merit, merit, skill and proficiency. Doesn't that sound nice?

• And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first. And that, in particular, African-American and Latino workers who are being shut out in this process so unfairly. 

Look at that first point.

Ethnic quotas?