President Donald Trump
has slid back from his campaign promises to curb the annual legal immigration of roughly 1 million foreigners.
Immigration reform advocates are not surprised at Trump’s back-sliding, but they are confident that Trump’s dependence on his blue-collar base in the 2020 election is pressuring him to stick with his campaign promises,
amid constant elite pressure for more legal immigration.
With constant pressure by Trump’s supporters, Trump will be more willing and better able to ignore or overcome establishment opposition and gradually get his agenda implemented stage-by-stage.
In August 2015, Trump issued
his very popular immigration plan to raise wages by reducing legal and illegal immigration.
Trump repeated those commitments in many subsequent speeches. For example, in March 2016, Trump called for a two-year pause in legal immigration, saying “I think for a period of a year to two years we have to look back and we have to see, just to answer the second part of your question, where we are, where we stand, what’s going on … I’d say a minimum of one year, maybe two years.”
In his January 2017 inauguration speech,
he described the theme of his administration as “Buy American, Hire American.”
But the 2016 election showed that Trump and centrist Americans recognize that
higher immigration means reduced wages, more unemployment, more drug addition, higher housing prices and longer commutes.
That is how Trump won the 2016 election in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and why
his on-again, off-again, pro-American immigration policy is at the core of his impending 2020 race.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/12/trump-backslides-legal-immigration-curbs/
