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The Real Estate Mogul 's Immigration Platform Essay

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his area of the real-estate mogul 's immigration platform proposes tripling the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from 5,000 to 15,000. Trump also wants ICE officers to cooperate with local law-enforcement on gang raids, specifically targeting undocumented immigrants who are believed to have gang connections.

But the candidate has been wavering on his overall immigration platform of late. The Trump campaign spent several days in August adjusting its tone and language on the matter.

“There could certainly be a softening," Trump said in an August interview with Fox News 's Sean Hannity, "because we 're not looking to hurt people."

He then quickly refused to rule out some form of mass deportation, returning to a hardline approach reminiscent of the primary campaign.

Clinton focuses on detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants "who pose a violent threat to public safety," according to the Democratic nominee 's immigration platform.

She defends President Barack Obama 's stalled executive orders on the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the Deferred Actions for Parents of Americans (DAPA) programs — intended to protect undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria from deportation.
Refugee resettlement

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Trump 's stance on refugee resettlement focuses primary on screening refugees who seek asylum in the US. He called for "a total and complete shutdown of

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