WATCH VIDEO:Local residents react to Trump, Mexican president meetingTrump struck two very different tones Wednesday, first in Mexico and then Arizona.
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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.
Salvia said that the favorable image Trump displayed in his talks with the chief of state of a major neighboring nation would count for far more with the U.S. public than the details on where the funds to pay for the wall would come from.
Referring to the Mexican government, he said: ‘They’re great people, great leaders, but they’re going to pay for the wall’. Trump has estimated the wall could be built for as little as $8 billion, though other analyses have put the cost much higher.
Aguilar said he opposed the policies of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but he was withdrawing support for Trump.
He said crime and border crossings would plummet and gangs would disappear.
The New York businessman told the organization, the largest veterans’ group in the United States, that he appreciated Peña Nieto’s invitation to meet.
Aguilar said he was unhappy with the immigration speech saying that while the Trump camp has recently vowed to deal with immigrants who are in the United States illegally in a “humane” way, “did you hear anything in that speech that was compassionate and humane? No”.
Clinton wants to protect them, which Trump has labelled as “amnesty”.
Illegal migrants would have “only one route”, that is, “to return home and apply for re-entry”.
To do so, he would create a “deportation task force” that would help identify such individuals.
“There was no way I could continue to be part of a prop apparatus for Mr Trump”, he said.
That came after Trump met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City, and both men left the meeting battling over the payment issue. He has called them “rapists and murderers”, and vowed to build a “big handsome wall” that “Mexico will pay for”. Earlier Thursday, after Trump tweeted that Mexico would pay for the wall, Pena Nieto fired back his own tweet saying that would “never” happen.
Trump would suspend visas for any Muslim nations where “adequate screening can not occur”, singling out Syria and Libya, over concerns terrorists will attempt to pose as refugees to gain access to the United States. “I love the people of Arizona, and together, we are going to win the White House in November”.
The billionaire candidate’s plan includes deporting immigrants with criminal records, cancelling President Barack Obama’s executive orders protecting millions of undocumented migrants, and blocking federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities” that bar discrimination against the undocumented.
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Trump’s immigration policy speech in Phoenix Wednesday also gave us an idea how many illegal immigrants he would try to deport immediately. He did not, however, definitively call for removing all illegal immigrants in the country.
