Subject: PAST EVENT: Trump meeting with National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) at Trump Tower on 5/11
From: "Sarge, Matthew" <[email-masked]>
To: Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:07:49 -0700

In a clear sign of a pivot towards the general election, Donald Trump privately discussed immigration policy on May 11 with a representative of the largest Hispanic evangelical association at Trump Tower.

The representative left the meeting expressing surprise at how supportive the presumptive Republican nominee had been. "Donald Trump showed a tremendous understanding and concern for the undocumented immigrants," evangelical pastor Mario Bramnick. "We all came out really sensing his genuineness."

Bramnick, a Cuban-American who advised Sen. Ted Cruz during the primary, came to the meeting as a representative of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), which has more than 40,000 member churches. The group's leader, pastor Samuel Rodriguez Jr., has been openly critical of Trump's plan to build a southern wall and deport with force the roughly 10 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. "It's impossible," Rodriguez says. "You'd have to have a Gestapo sort of apparatus, in the vein of World War II, putting people not on trains but airplanes."

http://time.com/4342885/donald-trump-immigration-hispanic-evangelicals/