Donald Trump‬, ‪Mexico‬, ‪Immigration

 The morning after Donald Trump once again embraced his hard-line immigration posture in a shouted speech, at least four members of his two-week-old Hispanic advisory council said they might not vote for the Republican presidential nominee and warned that his harsh rhetoric would cost him the election.

Trump stopped short of repeating his call for mass deportation, saying the status of these immigrants could be addressed "in several years," after a "great wall" is completed and illegal flows are ended for good. There has been widespread confusion about Trump’s position in recent weeks, in part because he has repeatedly contradicted himself in public statements about mass deportation. And although he rejected any possible path to legal status — or “amnesty” — during that speech, he suggested Thursday during an interview with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that he would revisit legalization after his border security policies were enacted.

Unlike this president, though, Trump says there should be no path to legalization for these longtime immigrants, short of returning to their home countries and reapplying for admission. In the meantime, he wants to prioritize deportation of "criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays" and those who rely on public welfare, along with "millions of recent illegal arrivals."

He said in Phoenix that what becomes of the 11 million undocumented immigrants “will never be a central issue” even as he vowed that he would begin removing millions on “day one, as soon as I take office. It’s hard to believe it happened on the same day—and is quite revealing of how the media world is handling the volatile issue of illegal immigration (as well as how polarized they are over Trump).