The key change Wednesday in Trump’s immigration position from his speeches a year ago is that he no longer mentioned the “deportation force” that he used to tout as the means to forcibly remove the estimated 11 million immigrants now living illegally in the United States. Trump did not express any regrets for his comments, and was only mildly reprimanded by Pena Nieto, who said, “The Mexican people felt aggrieved by those comments”, but felt Trump has a “genuine interest in building a relationship that would lead us to provide better conditions to our people”.
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If immigration is your overriding issue for the 2016 presidential campaign, then you can make up your mind today on who to support.
“She saw my face”, a dejected Gonzales said, telling her, “This speech Donald Trump is giving is going to cost him the election”.
“People will know that you can’t just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalised”, he said. “Those days are over”.
Trump again vowed that Mexico would pay for construction of a “great border wall” between the two countries.
Trump said after the meeting with Pena-Nieto on Wednesday that Mexico would pay for a wall that the Republican nominee wants to build along the border to block illegal immigrants from coming to the United States. “And Mexico will pay for the wall – 100 percent”. Whatever their circumstances, many of these people (and many of them are children) are refugees from war-torn countries to whom the US regularly sells military weapons that serve only to increase the instability of poorer nations and make surviving in their homeland impossible.
It looks like Donald Trump’s meeting with Enrique Pena Nieto failed to win over Mexico’s president.
“I repeat what I told him personally, Mr. Trump: Mexico will never pay for a wall”, Peña Nieto said in Spanish in a post on his official Twitter account, responding to a tweet earlier Thursday from Trump saying “Mexico will pay for the wall”.
Mark Gonzales, who founded both the Hispanic Prayer Network and the Hispanic Action Network, which counts thousands of Latino evangelical churches as members, sent a text to the RNC Wednesday night after Trump had doubled down on his hardline stances of deportations and avoiding a softening of his plan that he and advisors had floated in the days before the speech. At a joint appearance, the Republican presidential candidate was positively demure, speaking of joint U.S. No, Donald Trump has not softened. “We agreed on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns and people across our border and to put the cartels out of business”, he said.
An estimated 690,000 undocumented immigrants have committed significant crimes that would make them security priorities, according to a study by the Migration Policy Institute.
“As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities”, Trump said. “I have lots of Mexican friends”, just a few hours later, he takes a stage in Phoenix, Arizona, and lays out one of the most racist and oppressive and backwards immigration policies that this United States has ever seen. This would be his way of carrying out his proposed ban on Muslims from some countries without getting into their religious affiliation. “I am going to create a new Deportation Task Force”. “And Mexico will pay for the wall!” However, he offered only a mild rebuke of Trump for his rhetoric. After their meeting, Trump played nice at a press conference where he was complimentary about Nieto and the Mexican people.
Trump’s demonizing and scapegoating of Mexican immigrants for US economic and crime problems was already too reminiscent of the way Hitler sought to blame Jewish people for all Germany’s problems.
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Aguilar said he opposed the policies of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but he was withdrawing support for Trump.
