Just hours after Donald Trump accepted the Republican party’s nomination for president, President Barack Obama was hosting Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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“But we’re not going to make good decisions based on fears that don’t have a basis in fact”, he said.
The rate of illegal immigration in the US, Obama said at the news conference, “is lower by two-thirds than it was when Ronald Reagan was president”.
“Our country is more prosperous and safer than when President Obama took office, and the president believes strongly that we can’t afford to flush that progress down the drain”, Earnest said.
Pena Nieto has been outspoken in his distaste for Trump, comparing the GOP nominee to fascist dictators Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
The president’s contention that illegal immigration is at the lowest level in decades is hard to examine because, by definition, the government is unaware of such border crossings.
“Let’s sustain this progress”, he said. “I hope people the next morning walked outside. It’s a solid and unbreakable relationship between millions of people who live in both nations”, Pena Nieto said.
Rice said there will be “no shortage of challenges” facing the next administration, “but there are few greater opportunities to address those challenges, enhance the United States’ own security and lift the lives of billions, than by advancing inclusive global development”.
He said he’s glad to be commander of the world’s best military, but that spending a fraction of that money on schools, clean water and health care in other countries means “we’re also going to be in a better position to protect our country and improve our country”. -Mexican border “to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities”. Trump has suggested his administration would block the US share – by far the largest – of Mexico’s $25 billion in foreign remittances, equal to about 2 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product.
President Barack Obama says trade with Mexico brings important investment and jobs to the U.S.
“[The United States] has been a very good neighbor, [Obama] has been a very good neighbor”, Nieto said through an interpreter. They said they have learned from the two-decade-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has heavily criticized.
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U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Gayle Smith said these kinds of new efforts, coupled with the expansion of existing programs, have paid major dividends. And Mexico and the USA will co-host refugee talks at the U.N.in September. “We’re not just strategic or economic partners – we’re neighbors, and we’re friends”.
