Slate’s Josh Voorhees wrote Monday that Donald Trump seems to have an intentional strategy of making shifting, seemingly contradictory statements about how he’d treat undocumented immigrants if elected president. And then, Monday night, Trump appeared on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor to cite President Obama—who Trump has previously accused of ruining the United States with an “open borders” immigration policy—as an example of someone who takes the right approach to deportations. The transcript:
We are going to get rid of all of the bad ones. We have gang members, we have killers. We have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country. We are going to get them out. The police know who they’re. They are known by law enforcement, who they are … They are going to be out of this country so fast your head will spin. We have existing laws that will allow to you do that.
As far as everybody else, we are going to go through the process. What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country. Bush the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. I’m going to to do the same thing and I said that. We want to do it in a very humane manner.
So—just like he’s said all along, a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for four more years of Obama!
