“In his campaign speeches, Trump has not treated us like partners, nor as allies, based on a distorted picture of Mexico and its people”, he went on, saying he had told Trump future cooperation between the two nations must be based on mutual respect. Going forward, undocumented immigrants arrested for committing a crime would be placed into immediate deportation proceedings.
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For the second day, Mr Trump and Mexican President Pena Nieto traded barbs on social media over the funding of the proposed US-Mexico border wall. It was only after he was back on American soil that he said, “They are great people, great leaders, but they are going to pay for the wall”.
Donald Trump faced a backlash Thursday from some of his top conservative Hispanic supporters who said their hopes that he was softening his immigration policy were dashed by his fiery speech Wednesday night, which they said was anti-immigrant.
Mexico’s president quoted Trump’s tweet and responded, in Spanish, with a message along the lines of: “Repeating what I told you in person, Mr. Trump: Mexico will never pay for a wall”.
‘On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, lovely southern wall, ‘ Trump boasted.
Meanwhile Trump delivered a blistering immigration speech in Arizona on Wednesday night in which he vowed to make Mexico pay for the wall. “We decided to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change”.
Enrique probably felt like he had to speak out against Trump, since he has been heavily criticized by his fellow citizens for inviting Donald to meet with him in the first place, per Fox News.
Not only did Pena Nieto not demand that Donald Trump apologize 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 a border wall between the countries.
Trump “appeared presidential, was gracious to his Mexican hosts, and did not back down from his declared intention to build a wall and secure the United States border”, the former diplomat pointed out. Sources close to both the Mexican government and the Trump campaign have confirmed that this proposal exists, but wish to remain anonymous given the preliminary nature of the discussions.
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Let’s assume Trump was exactly right, and there really are 2 million so-called criminal aliens roaming the streets of America – how does that compare to the larger U.S. population? As he discussed the modalities that would be used to build that wall, evoking technologies apparently not yet in existence, I realized that his use of this concept was much more symbolic than anything else.
