Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto lashed out at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump telling Trump that his country will not pay for a border wall between the United States and Mexico.
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“We will build a great wall along the southern border and Mexico will pay for the wall”, Mr Trump insisted to crowds in Phoenix, Arizona. Much of the uncertainty in the week leading up to the speech centred on how Mr Trump meant to deal with millions of undocumented immigrants who had not engaged in criminal activity.
Clinton didn’t stay silent during Trump’s speech, firing off a series of tweets about Trump’s Mexico visit and his immigration remarks.
It was a retreat in the rhetoric for the billionaire from the GOP primaries, when he had vowed his “deportation force” would seek to remove all who didn’t have permission to live and work in the country.
Arguing that the billionaire businessman’s immigration plan is “consistent with his efforts to restore law and order to our country”, Perdue added that his “leadership is sorely needed as we can not allow Hillary Clinton to continue this legacy of lawlessness”.
– Trump called for cutting off federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities” where police have been ordered not to enforce immigration laws or report undocumented immigrants to federal authorities for deportation. “When we talk about behavior that is in this campaign, Mr. Trump’s decision to meet with President Peña Nieto should be at the top of the list”, Dr. Ralph Alvarado, a member of Trump’s Hispanic Advisory Council, said in a statement.
Kaine also said that Clinton would pursue immigration reform “in the first 100 days of the administration”, modeled after the “pillars” of the Senate’s 2013 attempt at immigration reform with the “Gang of Eight” bill. A central tenet of Trump’s immigration policy is to build a wall for which Mexico would pay.
Trump has previously said he would renegotiate the USA national debt as president, although he has since backtracked on this.
Nieto, speaking on TV shortly after, went on the offensive still further, saying Trump posed a threat to his country: “His policy stances could represent a huge threat to Mexico, and I am not prepared to keep my arms crossed and do nothing”, he said.
“We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration”. The Mexican president, who has falling approval rating numbers at home, tried to push back on the issue of the wall a bit following the meeting.
It should come as no surprise that Johnson reacted so strongly to Trump’s harsh positions on immigration. In other words he would not deport all 11 million-or-so illegal immigrants living in the United States, and doing so is unnecessary to fix the immigration system. “We’ ve got a lot of people in this country that you can’t have, and those people we’ll get out”.
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