Pena Nieto meanwhile tweeted, “At the beginning of my conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”. “We recognize and respect the right of either country to build a physical barrier or wall on any of its borders to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs and weapons”.
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The two continued to fight about it on Twitter for several days. He read from prepared remarks in a measured tone.
“Our message to the world will be this: You can not obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country”, Trump said. He says Trump speaks the truth.
“The bond between our two countries is deep and honest”, he said.
Seventy-eight percent said they believed Trump could not deliver on this promise, while 13 percent said he could.
Perez feels a little helpless in regard to the U.S. election.
You have to “build a relationship first”, he said.
Trump gave his Phoenix address, which was flagged as a major policy speech, just hours after he met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City.
Whether this suggests Americans see her as the lesser of two evils is in the eye of the beholder, but it appears as though Pena Nieto was still eager to safeguard his regime against the unlikely outcome of a Trump win.
President Enrique Pena Nieto’s meeting with Mexico’s most-disliked man is turning into a public relations disaster for a leader already struggling with historically low popularity ratings.
But when all you have to sell is snake oil, you have to at least credit Trump for grasping for that spoonful of sugar that will make it go down at least a little bit easier. He has since sought to clarify his immigration stance, and this latest push on immigration is part of that effort.
The Republican nominee has struggled to woo minority voters time and time again-an impediment to the GOP which pledged in its 2012 autopsy report to put more emphasis on Hispanic voters. There were some protests in regards to Trump’s visit.
Mr Javier Urbano Reyes, a professor in the department of International Studies at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, said he thought Trump gained a little with the meeting but Mexico’s president lost a lot.
“That’s misleading your allies, and lying about it to the American people is a poor quality for the president of the United States”, the senator said, echoing similar accusations by Hillary Clinton’s advisers.
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Alfonso Aguilar, a former Trump critic who, along with other conservative Latino activists, wrote a letter in July endorsing Trump and encouraging Latinos to support him, told Politico that he felt “misled” after Wednesday’s speech.
