US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will meet Mexico’s president on Wednesday, hours before he sets out proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.
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Trump will also meet with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto today.
Peter Schechter, the director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, wrote “It is inexplicable why President Peña Nieto would proactively lend legitimacy to a candidate who has been continuously hostile to the entire country of Mexico”.
The meeting is expected to take place a few hours before Trump will deliver a speech regarding his immigration policy.
In his speech in Arizona, Trump will detail where he stands on illegal immigration after worrying some conservative allies when he said last week he was “softening” his stance on mass deportations.
The private meeting, which Trump and his advisers began considering last week after Pena Nieto’s invitation, will be Trump’s first official interaction with a foreign leader since he began his presidential campaign more than a year ago.
Trump’s short stop in Mexico would mark his second visit to a foreign country during his campaign. Trump’s past comments on building a wall on the southwestern border and making Mexico pay for it, and his references to Mexico “sending people that have lots of problems” to the USA – including “rapists” – set off a firestorm on both sides of the border. In a March interview, Pena Nieto said that “there is no scenario” under which Mexico would do so and compared Trump’s language to that of dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
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Part of Trump’s stated plan involves deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants from the U.S.
Former Mexican Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon have also alluded to Hitler in describing the GOP nominee. “They’re rapists, and some I assume are good people”.
He compared Pena Nieto’s meeting to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signing of a 1938 peace pact with Germany. Christie made his own successful trip to Mexico City in September 2014 and has a warm relationship with the Mexican president.
During the same speech he said he would build a wall along the U.S.’s southern border and force Mexico pay for it. She said, “I think you’ll see a very presidential Donald Trump”.
But in meetings recently with Hispanic supporters, Trump has suggested he could be open to changing the hardline approach he outlined during the GOP primaries. After one such roundtable this month, Conway, said Trump’s stance on using a deportation force to expel people was “to be determined”.
Trump has also accused Mexico of sending its rapists and criminals to the U.S.
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