Donald Trump promises that under his administration, you would be at risk of deportation every day of your life. “Look, we do it in a very humane way, and we’re going to see with the people that are in the country”. Pena Nieto remained silent on the issue at the event, but said later on Twitter he did raise the issue. But after weeks of muddling his message further, Trump, in a blistering speech Wednesday evening in Arizona, said every immigrant in the USA illegally would be subject to deportation, and he would create a “deportation task force”. His top aide, Joe Hunter, was a staffer for Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), a moderate on immigration who was ousted in a primary in 2008 by a well-funded PAC that has campaigned aggressively for reduced immigration in the United States.
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Peña Nieto, facing sharp criticism in Mexico for inviting Trump, said he told the Republican candidate that Mexico would not pay for the wall.
Arguing that the billionaire businessman’s immigration plan is “consistent with his efforts to restore law and order to our country”, Perdue added that his “leadership is sorely needed as we can not allow Hillary Clinton to continue this legacy of lawlessness”.
Instead, Trump spoke of a mass deportation. “He’s been talking for a year about we’re going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it and then he goes and he sits down and goes eyeball to eyeball with the president of Mexico and, what, he forgets suddenly to bring it up or he’s too afraid to bring it up or he chokes in the meeting”.
“We’re going to triple the number of ICE deportation officers”, Trump said, adding that he would organize a special task force to assist in the deportation process focused on “identifying and quickly removing the most unsafe criminal illegal immigrants”.
“Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays”, Trump said Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Pena Nieto tweeted that he had told Trump during a private meeting on Wednesday that Mexico would not fund the wall, disputing Trump’s assertion during the press conference that the two had not discussed the issue.
Her campaign, she added, is “not going to criminalize, profile, round up and deport 16 million people”.
Mr. Trump said it didn’t come up. “Our country buys more from the United States than Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, and the U.K. together”, he said Wednesday through a translator.
In Phoenix, Trump responded to Peña Nieto, saying, “Mexico will pay for the wall, believe me – 100 percent – they don’t know it yet, but they will pay for the wall”.
“Immigration reform should mean something else entirely: it should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens”, he said.
“You know, I think the important thing about leadership is you’ve got to be consistent”. The optimism Trump projected in Mexico, however, was nowhere to be found in Arizona.
Lauer challenged Kaine’s notion that the meeting was amateur diplomacy, noting that a “toned down” Trump appeared presidential alongside the Mexican leader.
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Aguilar said at this point that he’s “inclined” to withdraw his support from Trump. He did not, however, definitively call for removing all illegal immigrants in the country.
