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The general-election Donald Trump who’s kinder and gentler on immigration doesn’t exist ― and most likely never did.

The Republican presidential nominee firmly shot down speculation on Wednesday that he may be open to legal status for undocumented immigrants, vowing that “no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement.”

“Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation,” Trump said during what he billed as a major policy speech in Phoenix. “That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don’t have a country.”

Trump, who has made immigration a centerpiece of his campaign, has been under increasing pressure to explain what he thinks should be done about the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., particularly those who aren’t criminals or security threats. His remarks over the past two weeks have seemed contradictory ― is he “softening” on deportations, as he said last Tuesday? Or is he “hardening,” as he said two days later?

He made clear on Wednesday that he wasn’t much concerned with how his policies would affect those undocumented immigrants.

“The truth is, the central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants, or however many it may be,” he said. He said they would be unable to gain legal status in the U.S. without returning to their native countries first. There would be “no amnesty,” he said.

That’s because undocumented immigrants ― and refugees, and legal immigrants ― are above all else a threat, according to Trump. He said so when he started his campaign, repeated it frequently, and made it the core theme of Wednesday’s speech, which at the end introduced people whose family members were killed by undocumented immigrants. Trump warned of terrorists sneaking in with refugees, immigrants receiving welfare, and American workers ― especially black and Latino ones ― losing their jobs.

“There is only one core issue in the immigration debate and that issue is the well-being of the American people,” Trump said.

Trump’s speech showed again that he prefers talking enforcement over what to do about undocumented immigrants who likely wouldn’t be deported and would remain in the U.S. It’s easy for him to say that all undocumented immigrants will leave the country through a “deportation force.” But actually removing every undocumented immigrant isn’t realistic, to say nothing of whether it would be humane or sound policy.

One Trump campaign aide argued recently that the “mass deportation” that people may have envisioned after hearing Trump’s rhetoric ― agents going door-to-door or conducting raids ― was a media invention never on the table in the first place. That might be true, or it may be that Trump hadn’t thought it through, the media filled in the blanks and he let people interpret it as they wished.

Trump’s speech failed to resolve that deportation confusion. He promised that “in several years, when we have accomplished all of enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good, including the construction of a great wall,” there might be something done with the undocumented immigrants still here.

“Then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals that remain,” he said.

But that would be only after doing everything possible to drive them out of the U.S., according to other parts of his speech.

What Trump laid out Wednesday was an approach to undocumented immigrants that falls within current law, but with broader and more aggressive enforcement. He again promised to deport criminals and national security threats ― as the Obama administration is doing ― but he also said he would eliminate Obama policies that lead to fewer non-criminal undocumented immigrants being deported.

Trump said he would create a “deportation task force” within Immigration and Customs Enforcement focused on finding and removing criminals. He said he would end “sanctuary cities” by using federal funding to force them to cooperate fully with immigration enforcement. Any undocumented immigrant who was arrested would go into deportation proceedings, regardless of whether they are convicted, he said. The government would better track people entering and exiting the country legally, and better stop businesses from hiring undocumented workers, Trump said.

Trump said he would triple the number of ICE agents and add 5,000 new border patrol officers, joking that “maybe they’ll be able to deport” Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. He said there would be mandatory detention for anyone apprehended at the border, and tougher action on countries that refuse to take back their citizens.

Also promised on the border: an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall,” bolstered by technology and paid for by Mexico.

He talked about the wall hours after meeing with with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico City. Trump said in a joint press conference afterward the meeting that the two men hadn’t discussed payment for the wall. Peña Nieto later said he told Trump that Mexico refuses pay.

Trump apparently wasn’t convinced.

“Mexico will pay for the wall,” he said during his speech. “100 percent. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for the wall.”

He offered a symbol of friendship with Mexico in the form of new hats for his surrogates, in the style of his “Make America Great Again” headwear. The new slogan: “Make Mexico Great Again Also,” showed off by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). 

Trump also said he would make legally coming into the U.S. more difficult, to make sure the country was accepting only those “that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.”  

He repeated his vow for “extreme vetting” and for banning people from certain countries ― no longer the Muslim “ban” he once promised, but one with a fairly obvious aim of keeping out Muslims. If people don’t like it, too bad. 

“We’ve got to have a country, folks,” he said.

CORRECTION: An earlier version misidentified Sessions’ state. He represents Alabama.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

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Introverts can make great networkers—that’s what really came home to me last night. Rather than acting like my usual extroverted self at a group gathering, I thought I should network half the time like an introvert, and it worked like a charm!

A friend of mine, Claude Mongeau, feels bound to behave as an extrovert because he is the CEO of CN, a railroad company with about 24,000 people. He enjoys quiet and solitude in his office, but when he leaves his floor, he puts on his “game face” and acts like an extrovert. In the same way, I am learning to act like an introvert from time to time in order to be a better leader. I’m not being inauthentic; instead, I’m being flexible and learning to listen.

I teach at McGill University, where I attended an alumni event last night. Over a hundred alumni of our business school gathered for drinks and canapés. I had taught about 20 percent of the alumni, so I felt I had to network like an extrovert. You know the type. Going from group to group, spending a few minutes with everyone, hugging people or kissing them (this is Montreal, after all!) and laughing with them.

This is my natural style, so I dove right in. And it can be effective: in our better moments, extroverts, like myself, charm people. Everyone likes us, but often, we are saying nothing of substance. We just don’t have time because we need to move on to make sure we talk to everyone in order to remain stimulated. Given the number of former students I had in the room, this was a good move. But being in the midst of a research project on quiet leaders and introverts in executive roles, I was wondering what it would be like to network like an introvert.

“Why not give it a try?” I asked myself.

For the first half of the evening, I did my traditional—more extroverted—form of networking. But for the second half, I put on my “game face” and acted like an introvert. In practical terms, I spent considerably longer than normal, 15-20 minutes, with three people. Two were former students who had just left a leading consulting firm and were working together to develop leadership programs—something I do as well. The other person with whom I connected was an operations person who also was striking out on his own doing consulting, and again, we found opportunities to collaborate.

In the past, I most likely would have spent a few minutes with them but then pushed on, thereby missing the opportunities that presented themselves only because I made the conscious decision to act like an introvert and spend more quality time with a few people. This was partly strategic: I chose the people based on whether I thought both parties would want to deepen the relationship, and it paid off.

Have you ever pushed yourself beyond your comfort zone to accomplish a goal?

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