Trump didn’t even clarify his position on a so-called “deportation force”.
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Agustín Barrios Gomez, an outgoing congressman of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) representing Mexico City, told Al Jazeera: “I see the upside for Donald Trump, but I don’t see any upside here for Pena Nieto”.
Clinton’s campaign was unshaken by Trump’s day.
– “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best”. “What can this meeting bring us except surrealism in all its splendour?”
“We have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and its impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions”, Trump said. Trump argues the high levels of immigration, both legal and illegal, have injured American workers by depressing wages. He left that question unanswered – dismissing it as irrelevant – while also strongly suggesting that he would push to deport as many people as possible.
Reacting to Mr Trump’s visit to Mexico, she said he had “choked” by not asking his hosts to pay for his wall.
Mr Trump said it was the right of the United States to choose immigrants that “we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us”.
“I believe in dialogue to promote Mexico’s interests in the world, and chiefly, to protect Mexicans wherever they are”.
Not only did he not demand that Mr Trump apologise for calling Mexican migrants rapists and criminals, but he stood silently by in their joint press conference while the Republican candidate repeated his promise to build the border wall.
He doubled down on the deeply complex issue by laying out a sweeping plan to dramatically slash illegal immigration, and issued direct threats to those in the country without documentation.
“We did discuss the wall”.
“We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration”.
“Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation”, Trump said in a highly anticipated speech, which took place mere hours after his surprise meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in his first trip overseas as the GOP nominee. “They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for it”.
– “Mexico’s totally corrupt gov’t looks awful with El Chapo’s escape–totally corrupt”.
– “I love the Mexican people, but Mexico is not our friend. We can’t contain ISIS, we must defeat them and we will”.
– “The leader and negotiators representing Mexico are far smarter and more cunning than the leader and negotiators representing the USA!” Trump tweeted. June 2015.
Pena Nieto did say that Mexicans felt “aggrieved” and had disagreements with Trump, but most felt that it was not enough. “That’s how Hitler got in”.
In response to these conflicting accounts, the Trump campaign said their meeting was the first part of the discussion and “a relationship builder” between them.
President Enrique Pena Nieto’s decision to meet with possibly Mexico’s most-disliked man is turning into a public relations disaster for him, with social media posters and politicians calling it a national humiliation likely to lower the president’s already historically low popularity ratings.
In one apparent deviation from his otherwise disciplined adherence to his script, Trump said of rival Hillary Clinton, “Maybe they’ll be able to deport her”.
Trump told the rowdy Arizona crowd that he respects the Mexican president.
– “He’s proud of his heritage”.
– “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian”. In other words, Trump does plan on creating some kind of deportation force, but only as part of his existing policy to crack down on undocumented people who have committed crimes, which is not unlike the Obama administration’s “felons not families” approach. “And the pope made the statement”, Trump said, blaming the Mexican government during a CNN town hall in SC. “The Mexicans have dignity and we repudiate your hate speech”, tweeted former Mexican first lady Margarita Zavala, who is married to former President Felipe Calderón, according to a CNN translation.
– “He is not welcome to Mexico by 130 million people”. We don’t like him, We don’t want him.
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“At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”, Pena Nieto wrote after Trump departed Mexico City for Phoenix. Stop lying! Mexico is not yours to play with.
