“President Trump is exactly right,” he said, she is “a flip-flopper.”
Campaigning in her home state, Ms. Haley has been more forcefully firing back against attacks on her record, though she is facing an uphill battle. Mr. Trump, who continues to dominate by double-digits in South Carolina polls, has more than 80 current and former Republican state officials endorsing his campaign, including Gov. Henry McMaster and Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott.
In recent days, she has argued that as she was signing that 2011 legislation, Mr. Trump was “still a New York liberal” donating to Democrats like Vice President Kamala Harris. She has called him “irresponsible” for his recent intervention in a Republican-led immigration deal in Congress, stalling progress as the crisis at the border mounts.
She still expresses support for revamping legal immigration avenues, based on business needs and merit, and strengthening the asylum system that she says protects persecuted people like the Afghan interpreters who aided her husband, Maj. Michael Haley, while he was overseas. But her stances on illegal immigration have kept pace with the new conservative extremes of her party under Mr. Trump: She has expressed support for deploying the military against Mexican drug cartels, limiting birthright citizenship and sending millions of migrants back to their home countries.
She does back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which grants work permits and temporary legal status for 570,000 people brought into the United States as children. But she calls it the “carrot” to the stick that must be used to push for a broader and more hard-line overhaul of immigration laws.
Mr. Trump, in ads, interviews and rallies, is promising a return to his own hard-line policies if elected, and has escalated his rhetoric about the southern border, describing undocumented immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
