“I say you’re paying for the wall and we’ll see what happens”, said Trump.
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Tonight, white nationalists are seizing on Donald Trump’s tough talk when it comes to immigration, insisting Trump is speaking to them when he talks of deportation and restricting immigration.
In a step that will soothe the concerns of his base but is broadly unpopular with the general electorate, Mr Trump warned all 11 million people now in the U.S. could face deportation if he wins the White House.
Peña Nieto fired back in a tweet of his own to say that, as they discussed in person, his country would do no such thing.
“Our message to the world will be this”. But his government said Trump understood its concerns at the meeting, making Pena Nieto’s tense appearance on television the more surprising.
Clearly, Mr. Trump’s change in tone from a week ago, when he and top aides talked of a less severe approach toward illegal immigrants, was an attempt to reassure his legions of fans as polls showed him losing support in key states.
The proposal is central to the immigration plan Trump laid out in Phoenix Wednesday night, including a stark warning to undocumented US residents.
President Pena Nieto pointedly took the occasion to state flatly that “at the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”.
After a bruised and chaotic primary season, where his hard-line immigration stance played a pivotal role in routing all other Republican contenders, Trump had recently been signaling that he may be open to a “softening” of his extreme immigration positions.
More than 6,000 supporters were inside the Convention Centre to listen to Trump amid heavy security.
At his Phoenix rally, Trump’s opening act consisted of former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani and Alabama senator Jeff Sessions. He has called them “rapists and murderers”, and vowed to build a “big attractive wall” that “Mexico will pay for”.
Trump has been pilloried in Mexico since he launched his White House campaign past year.
Donald Trump has warned us about those Mexican rapists. He returned to the hardline rhetoric that powered him to the Republican presidential nomination over 16 rivals, heartening those conservatives drawn to Trump by the issue.
“We will build a great wall along the southern border”, he said, pausing for emphasis before continuing: “and Mexico will pay for the wall”.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, Gonzales said “I texted them just to be official that I would not be giving an endorsement and serving on the council was out of the question”.
“We will be fair, just and compassionate to all”, Trump said, “but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens”. His “deportation task force” will be hunting. criminal aliens.
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“I think it is an absolute misunderstanding of the reality of immigration”, de Blasio said.
