After realizing that 77 percent of Americans are vehemently against his plan to deport the 11 million-plus undocumented immigrants in the US, the Donald Trump campaign set out to soften its stance.
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“You can’t just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalised”.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday that Republican standard-bearer Donald Trump’s proposals represent a “threat” to his country, a day after the two men met in the Mexican capital.
“We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration”, Trump declared to a rowdy crowd in Phoenix.
In a written excerpt from an interview with ABC News that will air Tuesday morning, Clinton simply said “no” when asked if she would travel to Mexico before the election on November 8, without elaborating further.
Trump was speaking in Phoenix, the billionaire candidates was present to his immigration plan which consist of expatriate immigrants with criminal records and cancelling President Barack Obama’s executive orders protecting millions of undocumented immigrants.
Washington: Donald Trump has defended the right of the United States to build a massive wall along its southern border, but triggered a fresh controversy over who will foot the bill for it.
Trump’s tense worldwide trip to Mexico on Wednesday saw him navigate a political tightrope just 69 days before the election. 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”. After their meeting, Trump played nice at a press conference where he was complimentary about Nieto and the Mexican people.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump persist that Mexico will pay for border wall once he elected, in speech he delivered after talks with Mexico’s president. 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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Several of Trump’s major Latino supporters said they were considering dropping their backing following his speech, Politico reported.
