Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine slammed Donald Trump for “choking” during his Wednesday meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, calling the trip across the southern USA border “diplomatic amateur hour”. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Clinton’s vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Trump “didn’t have the guts to look the Mexican president in the eye and bring up the central position in the campaign”.
An Associated Press Fact Check of Donald Trump’s immigration speech shows that the Republican Presidentian nominee repeated many of his campaign themes and left out key details. Trump insists they never discussed the infamous border wall, but Nieto later tweeted he’d told Trump Mexico won’t finance his wall.
Talking tough, he riled up his supporters, calling for “zero tolerance” and immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants who are criminals and lobbing unfounded claims that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton backed “open borders”.
Seeking to end confusion over his aggressive but recently muddled language on immigration, Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to remove millions of people living in the country illegally if he becomes president, warning that failure to do so would jeopardize the “well-being of the American people”. “What I heard today was not realistic and not compassionate”.
Trump’s surprise trip to Mexico City was apparently created to show he belonged on the world stage. “He rejected that (on Wednesday) and so I must reject him”.
Meanwhile, Politico obtained a copy of an email from Texas pastor Ramiro Pena, who is also on the board.
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. One member of his Hispanic Advisory Council even resigned following his address. Trump has promised to begin these deportations on his first day in office. “I owe my national audience an explanation”. Well, because of the caps they wore during their speeches, which had the phrase “Make Mexico great again also” imprinted on them.
Perez feels a little helpless in regard to the USA election. “We decided to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change”. We thought we were moving in the right direction…we’re disappointed. “To return home and apply for re-entry like everybody else under the rules of the new legal immigration system”. They know who these people are.
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During his nearly 90-minute long speech, Trump railed about how illegal immigrants as a whole were posing a security and economic threat to Americans, pledging that “anyone who has entered the USA illegally is subject to deportation”.
