US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump likes to brag about being tough with world leaders but he may have bungled his first chance to prove it when he met Mexico’s Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday.
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“I mean, this is no different from any deal”, said Trump. In fact, the real Trump is the man who has been on television all these months, playing on hatred and fear, threatening people such as Martinez, who represent American values more truly than Trump ever could.
The spin is working on some people ― MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough repeatedly said on Friday that Trump’s current immigration policy is the same as President Barack Obama’s or maybe even softer. “Those days are over”.
“We have issues from ISIS types, also we have a lot of illegal immigrants that are taking away from people and we allow them to take government money”, said Chase Anderson, 25, of Spokane, Washington, is white and thinks Trump would do better on border security. He said the simpler path would have been to do nothing, but he believed it necessary to stress to Trump the importance of the U.S. -Mexico relationship. The United States hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs from 2000 to 2010, when more than 5.5 million were lost, but most economists blame the emergence of China as a manufacturing powerhouse and the increasing automation of many factories. “One-hundred percent. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for the wall”. “But getting into the details in negotiations about paying for the wall, it really was’t that kind of a meeting”, Pence said.
With a hostile political climate growing, it’s no surprise that Pena Nieto held this tightly-controlled media event with hand-picked young Mexicans as his audience. He followed that up with a tweet, in Spanish: “At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”.
Some of Donald Trump’s Hispanic backers distanced themselves from the Republican nominee Thursday for standing by a hardline approach to illegal immigration in a key speech after indicating for weeks that he may soften his approach.
Correct The Record, an organisation supporting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the Nov.8 presidential election, slammed Trump.
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In his speech, Trump emphasized that his priority would be to quickly deport those among the undocumented population who have committed serious crimes. The Mexican president had an opportunity to challenge Trump publicly at that moment – and defend his country’s dignity in front of Mexicans desperately hoping for that – but he said nothing. Immigration hardliners have labeled anything short of automatic deportation a form of “amnesty” that will only serve as incentive for more immigrants to cross the border illegally to live in the United States.
He said he would form a commission to study which regions or countries he would suspend immigration from, saying Syria and Libya would be high on his list. Toney said he has not decided who to support, but will not be voting for Trump.
Mexico’s president rebuked Donald Trump as a threat to his country just hours after painting a positive picture of talks the two held on Wednesday to try to defuse tensions over the USA presidential hopeful’s anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric.
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They should frogmarch their stunningly inept president, Enrique Pena Nieto, to the U.S. However, he offered only a mild rebuke of Trump for his rhetoric.
