With new plan, Trump blows up 2016 immigration debate

Published August 18, 2015 2:49am ET



For months, pundits quite reasonably noted that Donald Trump hadn’t offered policy specifics to back up the proposals he made in campaign appearances. “Trump has not offered any credible plans for what he is talking about,” one anonymous Iowa insider told Politico. “If Trump wants to stay ahead, he would be smart to put some ‘meat on the bone.'”

Now, on immigration at least, there is some meat on the bone, after Trump released a six-page policy outline of his plans to restructure the nation’s immigration system. It’s not the most extensive candidate statement on the subject — Jeb Bush wrote a book about it, and Marco Rubio wrote a nearly 1,000-page comprehensive immigration reform bill — but it should be enough to satisfy those who say Trump lacks specifics.

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