Hillary Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, is hawking a red cap bearing another slogan that tumbled out of Trump’s head: “I have a very good brain”.
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The Republican nominee for president promised Wednesday to remove millions of people living in the country illegally if elected president, warning that failure to do so would jeopardize the “well-being of the American people”.
“This is the kind of anti-immigrant language that’s always had a tiny fringe support in this country, but it was a speech that’s not worthy of a president”, Kaine said.
“We have the most incompetently worked trade deals”, Trump said, invoking NAFTA in particular.
He vowed to create a “deportation task force” within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division “focused on identifying and quickly removing the most unsafe criminal illegal aliens in America”.
“As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities”, he said. Trump did not explicitly discuss the 11 million undocumented immigrants without criminal backgrounds and did not back his earlier vows that he would deport all of them. Clinton’s immigration plan – which includes an end to family detention, an emphasis on employer verification of legal status, and creating a rigorous path to citizenship – would get top priority in her administration, Kaine pledged. “They will have one route and one route only: to return home and apply for re-entry”. “We didn’t discuss that…”
Trump’s strategy could energize his core supporters anew, but it also risks alienating undecided voters who have remained wary of Trump’s tone and temperament in the context of the presidency.
Consistent with the law-and-order theme he has emphasized, Trump vowed a “zero tolerance” policy toward criminals living in the USA illegally.
Donald Trump’s back-to-back immigration-focused events in Mexico and Arizona were an astounding display of political whiplash.
The visit was an apparent attempt to portray Trump in a statesmanlike light and to counter Clinton’s claims that he is temperamentally unfit to be President.
Many Mexicans felt the Republican had left Pena Nieto flat-footed by accepting an invitation the Mexican president had made simply for appearances’ sake.
“Yes, we addressed the issue of the wall (at the meeting), I was very clear and emphatic that Mexico would not pay for such a wall”, Pena Neto said.
If the Trump campaign had hinted at a change in any other position (other than maybe that of Melania as his primary wife) it would have been a minor news story.
“Trump just failed his first foreign test. Diplomacy isn’t as easy as it looks. -H” Clinton said in a personally signed Tweet. “It was not a negotiation, and that would have been inappropriate”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement Wednesday evening.
“It was not a negotiation, and that would have been inappropriate”.
Peña Nieto twice stressed the “responsibility” he has to defend Mexican people around the world and said Trump has made “assertions that regrettably had hurt and have affected Mexicans”. Pena Nieto, at the time, said nothing about the wall.
The Clinton campaign also argued that Trump’s performance in Mexico proved that his tough guy image was just an act. The Trump campaign then released the statement after it was revealed that the border wall did come up during the meeting.
As we all know by now, there are a lot of negative things to say about Donald Trump. “He got beat in the room and lied about it”.
But Trump was adamant in his speech in Arizona that Mexico would indeed finance the wall if he becomes president.
“Mexico will pay for the wall”.
“Without a doubt, my perception is that it is going to make it even worse, even stronger the drop in approval”, he said, referring to Pena Nieto’s near 20-percent approval rating, according to recent polls.
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In the speech, Trump not only doubled-down on the wall and the invoice to Mexico, but on a “deportation task force” that would either drive the undocumented out of the country of their own accord or arrest them and send them to their countries of origin.
