Trump said this week he would block taxpayer dollars from going to any cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
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So along comes Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto, who also happens to be the third most despised entity South of the Border behind only Trump and lice (yes, in that order), to throw the Republican presidential nominee’s floundering campaign a lifeline. And they love him specifically because he called Mexicans “rapists” and “murderers” – normalizing open hostility toward all immigrants, legal or not.
“In several years, when we have accomplished all of enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good, including the construction of a great wall”, he said in the speech, the country will “be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals that remain”.
A Washington Post poll released last month showed only 18% of Latino voters saw Trump favorably, compared with 55% who said they saw Hillary Clinton favorably.
But Agular said Thursday: “I’m withdrawing my support”.
The Republican presidential nominee promised Wednesday to remove millions of people living in the United States illegally if elected, warning that failure to do so would jeopardize the “well-being of the American people”. “He actually said that he was going to treat undocumented immigrants without criminal records in a humane and compassionate way”, Aguilar told CNN.
“We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration”. “Mexican nationals in the United States are honest people, working people”, he said.
Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico was a high watermark for his campaign, but it might not be enough to put him over the top in November, according to Republican strategist Alex Conant. “The “National Hispanic Advisory Council” seems to be simply for optics and I do not have the time or energy for a scam”.
“There was nothing pro-business in that speech”, Monty told MSNBC.
The problem for Donald Trump is exactly what a TV executive once warned me about when I kept insisting on booking an easily excitable guest – “He scares people”.
Boris Epshteyn, senior advisor to the Trump-Pence campaign, again on Thursday said the subject had not been broached.
“Somehow or another no one is talking about that piece”, Priebus said.
This was the Trump we all knew, the Trump who questions the judicial independence of an American-born judge because of his Mexican heritage, who fights with Mexican American journalists, and who asserts that Mexico is “killing us”.
In fact, with this one very public act of kissing Trump’s behind, he forever cements his image in the minds of the Mexican people as President “Pendejo” Nieto.
On Twitter early on Thursday, Trump wrote, “Mexico will pay for the wall!”
“What I know is that Mexico will not pay a single cent if they want to build a wall on that side of the border”, he added.
However, Trump told a cheering crowd of supporters in Arizona later on Wednesday that Mexico would pay for the wall “100 percent”.
Following what was understood to be a relatively friendly private sit-down with Peña Nieto, Trump said at a joint press conference that they had set aside the issue of who would pay for the multi-billion, Trump-proposed wall along the Mexico-U.S. border as a way to focus on common issues such as trade and security.
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Clinton raised about $143 million in August for her presidential bid and the Democratic Party, her campaign announced.
