Six major points of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s immigration plan come from a Washington D.C. immigration organization that has consulted for the campaign.
Two major immigration groups, NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) have both held meetings or spoken by phone with top representatives of Donald Trump’s campaign team according to Reuters. The Trump campaign has not commented on whether or not these meetings took place.
NumbersUSA gave Trump a ten point immigration plan in August, before Trump met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and subsequently gave a major immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona. Trump cited six of the ten points in his Phoenix speech. The Trump campaign claims that the speech was based on a ten point plan independently formulated by advisers former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, along with law enforcement officials.
CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian has been handling requests for research data from the Trump campaign for several months regarding immigration policy issues. Krikorian met with Trump’s national security team where he was asked to become a campaign surrogate but he decided against it.
“We’re absolutely opposed to nativism,” Numbers USA President Roy Beck told Reuters. CIS is aiming for the U.S. to have “an ethnically neutral policy that lets in fewer people in the future and does a better job of welcoming those people we do legally admit to our country,” according to CIS’ Krikorian.
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