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Does Trump Have an Immigration Policy? “The Answer Could Be Yes.”

Donald Trump addresses an audience at the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on July 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Donald Trump, professional wall-builder, may not realize his remarks are televised. How else to explain Trump’s lack of a pivot foot when undoing his previous immigration “plan” and vaguely replacing it with something else that he’ll let us in on once he’s figured it out. As a candidate for the Republican nomination, Trump was a finger-jabbing tough guy, calling for a “deportation force” to expel the some 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., now he’s melted into a word jumble.

Over the past week, each time Trump appears in public, he says something new as part of his immigration improvisation. It’s hard for his staff to keep up. Here’s Thursday’s addition to Trump’s immigration week:

And that was just Thursday.