Trump fires back against critics suggesting he’s wasting time in Texas, already a red state

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AUSTIN — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump showcased his evolving immigration plan and pilloried Hillary Clinton at a Tuesday rally where a pumped-up crowd shouted, “Build that wall!” and “Lock her up!”

“We are going to build the wall, and who’s going to pay for the wall?” Trump asked, affirming the crowd’s roar of “Mexico!”

Trump shared the stage in the Luedecke Arena at the Travis County Exposition Center with women who said their children were killed by undocumented immigrants, and a man who said he saw from his post with the Border Patrol that the country isn’t safe.

But Trump’s national security plan — particularly his proposal for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants who number in the millions — appears to be a work in progress following a weekend meeting with Hispanic advisers.

In targeting Clinton, Trump repeated his call for a special prosecutor to look into her use of a private email server while secretary of state. He and other Republicans have highlighted messages that they say show donors to her family’s charitable foundation got preferential treatment.

“It is a disgrace,” Trump said. “Hillary Clinton is totally unfit to hold public office.”

A State Department spokesperson has said there was no impropriety in communications between Clinton Foundation staff and the federal agency.

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