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Trump Still Struggling to Clarify Immigration Stand

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Immigration may be Donald Trump's signature issue but he's struggling to defend where he stands after seeming to soften his position last week.

Late Sunday he announced that he'll give a "major speech on illegal immigration" in Arizona on Wednesday.

Over the weekend vice presidential candidate Gov. Mike Pence defended Trump's position on CNN's "State of the Union."

"His position and his principles have been absolutely consistent," Pence said. "We're going to secure the border. We're going to build a wall, have a physical barrier, enforce the laws of this country, end sanctuary cities, implement e-verify."

Pence also added that "there will be no path to legalization and citizenship unless people leave the country."

To underscore his tough stance, Trump hit the campaign trail in Iowa this weekend with the family of a young woman, Sarah Root, who was killed by a drunk driver. That driver was an illegal immigrant who posted bond and disappeared.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton spent the weekend campaigning in the Hamptons in New York with a fresh round of troublesome emails to defend.

These emails were released after a lawsuit by the conservative group Citizens United, which shared them with ABC News.

They show what the group says is more evidence that allies of the Clinton Foundation got special treatment when Clinton was secretary of state.

The State Department and the Clinton campaign both told ABC that foundation donors had no special influence or received any favors.

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Heather
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Heather Sells covers wide-ranging stories for CBN News that include religious liberty, ministry trends, immigration, and education. She’s known for telling personal stories that capture the issues of the day, from the border sheriff who rescues migrants in the desert to the parents struggling with a child that identifies as transgender. In the last year, she has reported on immigration at the Texas border, from Washington, D.C., in advance of the Dobbs abortion case, at crisis pregnancy centers in Massachusetts, and on sexual abuse reform at the annual Southern Baptist meeting in Anaheim