"If you want to be here legally you have to apply to be here legally," Kellyanne Conway said. | AP Photo Conway shies away from Trump message on deportations

Donald Trump's new campaign manager on Sunday moved to clarify his new immigration policy, focusing on "being fair and humane" instead of deporting all undocumented immigrants.

The new plan is, "if you want to be here legally, you have to apply to be here legally," Kellyanne Conway told John Dickerson on CBS News' "Face the Nation." "He is not talking about a deportation force, but he is talking about being fair and humane."


That's a clear break from Trump's earlier position, which emphasized removing everyone who was in the country illegally, regardless of their individual circumstances. Conway said Trump's new stance wouldn't cost him voters who were drawn to that hard line because "this isn’t just a referendum on Donald Trump’s immigration policy, you have to contrast him to Hillary Clinton’s."

Conway said Trump's position has been consistent, and his latest statements reflect the reality that "he obviously would work with law enforcement, immigration, the immigration agencies."

Asked about Trump's calling Clinton a bigot, Conway accused the other side of name-calling.

"This man has been called everything in the book," she said. "Insults routinely hurled at him. People think it’s funny. They put it on their Twitter feeds even though they’re supposed to be objective journalists. And so he turns around and says basically that her policies have left people behind."