Trump talks immigration

President Donald Trump met with regional reporters on Wednesday and fielded a range of policy questions:

Question: “Last night, you said in your SOTU address, ‘I want legal immigrants to come into this country in the largest numbers ever.’ Is that a change in your policy?”

Trump: “Yes, because we need people in our country because our unemployment numbers are so low and we have massive numbers of companies coming back into our country — car companies, we have seven car companies coming back in right now and there’s going to be a lot more — we’ve done really well with this, and we need people.”

Question: “So, you’re changing your policy officially, then? You want more legal immigration?”

Trump: “I need people coming in because we need people to run the factories and plants and companies that are moving back in. We need people.”

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Heller later voted for a “skinny repeal” bill that failed.

In the Oval Office Wednesday, Trump recalled that “for three or four months he (Heller) was very difficult on health care, but we got there and then he was great after that.” Trump added that his base could not let go of Heller’s perceived transgressions.

Republican Danny Tarkanian had launched a challenge to Heller until March 2018 when Trump tweeted that it would be great for the Nevada GOP “if good guy Danny Tarkanian would run for Congress and Dean Heller, who is doing a really good job, could run for the Senate unopposed.”

Tarkanian obliged by setting his sites on Rosen’s vacated House seat. In November, he lost to Democrat Susie Lee.

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