However, DNC national press secretary Mark Paustenbach said, “Trump has boasted that he is going to get Mexico to pay for his ridiculous wall but when he came face to face with the Mexican President he got out maneuvered and then tried to cover it up on worldwide TV”.
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She also supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which provides legal status to children who arrive in the country illegally, as well as Deferred Action for Parental Accountability, which would allow immigrant parents of children born in the U.S.to receive a work permit and avoid deportation.
At least two major corruption scandals have enveloped his administration – including one last month. “Nobody can tell me I plagiarized my thesis”, the president said. Seventy-three percent of Latinos say the GOP doesn’t care or is hostile to them, while just 21 percent say the party “truly cares”.
Though he may be too diplomatic to say so, Pena Nieto probably was not persuaded Donald Trump will be good for Mexico.
Trump’s last-minute visit on Wednesday to Mexico was created to appeal to moderate voters, including those most affected by illegal immigration, who are anxious that the real estate mogul and former reality TV star lacks the temperament to engage in worldwide diplomacy. Trump has estimated the wall could be built for as little as $8 billion, though other analyses have put the cost much higher.
Donald Trump is retreating from his vow to deport everyone living in the United States illegally, even as he sticks with an aggressive tone on illegal immigration and remains committed to building a physical wall along the US border with Mexico.
“Donald Trump’s visit seems outrageous to me”.
Trump has made immigration – including his plans to build a border wall and deport people in the country illegally- a central issue of his unconventional presidential bid. And Nieto is not a fan of Trump, having compared his anti-Mexico/anti-Hispanic rhetoric to that of Hitler and Mussolini.
“When he sat down and he looked President Peña Nieto in the eye, he didn’t have the guts to bring that up”.
Donald Trump is dead wrong when he claims that there are at least 2 million criminals among the undocumented immigrants now in the U.S.
A Facebook page named Latinos for Trump has almost 30,000 followers and states there are many Americans of Latino and Hispanic descent who are supporting Trump and a strong border.
“It’s so disappointing because we feel we took a chance, a very risky chance”, said Alfonso Aguilar, the president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles. A moderate Republican, she plans to write in US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont – who lost the Democratic primary campaign to Clinton.
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And already low in popularity, the president had irritated Mexicans exhausted of Trump’s insults by inviting him to a meeting.
