WASHINGTON _ Conservatives hungry for tighter immigration laws breathed easier on Tuesday night after President Donald Trump called again for a border wall, squashing concerns that he shared the conciliatory approach being taken by other Republicans negotiating border security.
While immigration hawks would have preferred some specific enforcement proposals, Trump's State of the Union speech delivered the same message on immigration and security that he promised on the presidential campaign trail in 2016.
"The speech was vintage President Trump, no talk about amnesty, but rather a focus on the most important stakeholders in U.S. immigration policy _ the American people," said RJ Hauman, the government relations director at FAIR who is in regular discussions with the administration.
