Donald Trump is out there, and by pulling these people up on stage, he is telling us that, “If we don’t stop immigrants from coming into this country, you’re going to die”.
Advertisement
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday that Republican standard-bearer Donald Trump’s proposals represent a “threat” to his country, a day after the two men met in the Mexican capital.
Yesterday Donald Trump decides he’s going to head on down to Mexico, meet with the Mexican president.
Protestors gathered in the heart of Mexico City upon hearing news of Donald Trump’s visit with their president hours before an immigration speech in Phoenix, Ariz. Trump is calling h.
In an email to Trump campaign advisers and Hispanic outreach staffers at the Republican National Committee, Ramiro Pena, a Texas pastor who also serves on Trump’s Hispanic Advisory Council, voiced his disappointment with the speech and said, “It is hard to [imagine] how I can continue to associate with the Trump campaign”.
Since the 1990s, politicians who have taken a tough stance on immigration have usually come out against amnesty for anyone living in the country illegally, but spoke favorably of legal immigration. Indeed, the president’s plan shielded up to 4 million people from possible deportation, all of them immigrants who came to the U.S.as children or are parents of citizens or legal residents.
If Trump’s entire exercise of the last twenty-four hours was to reassure his primary base that he was not wavering on an issue that is so crucial to them, he accomplished his mission.
And, oh by the way, according to Gallup, only 8 percent of voters list immigration as “the most important problem facing this country today”. Even when Trump has facts on his side, the Fact Checker points out that the information he uses is often “misleading and lacks context”. “We chose to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change”.
Trump is trailing Clinton in surveys and several of Trump’s major Latino supporters said they are considering dropping their backing following his speech, Politico reported.
“Donald Trump’s reaction was positive”, he said.
“I remember very clearly the studies I carried out, what I researched and what I formulated in my thesis. But what we heard last night was not a Republican plan”, he said. During the meeting, he was said to have expressed support for a rethink of his immigration message-even contemplating giving undocumented immigrants a path toward legal status.
“At this point, I just don’t see how I can support him”.
“I was thinking maybe Hillary over Trump”, Jensen said. But Pena Nieto stopped well short of demanding an apology or setting the record straight over who would pay for Trump’s wall. “Trust me, he knows how to set up a negotiation and start a deal”. It was a risk. “I really think now he’s definitely going to lose”.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
At an appearance in OH on Thursday, Trump again hammered home his tough message on illegal immigration.
Shortly after the speech ended, Jacob Monty, a member of Trump’s recently formed Hispanic Advisory Council, announced his resignation from the group.
Trump’s “America First” positions are aimed at rallying mainly middle-class white people who feel they have lost jobs to illegal immigrants or to the outsourcing of jobs overseas. “He rejected that tonight and so I must reject him”, Monty wrote. Tonight he was not a Republican but a populist, modern day Father Coughlin who demonized immigrants. “He can do that without me”.
So Trump went on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. And we had a lot of hope. He claimed that he and Peña Nieto didn’t discuss who would build his proposed big, attractive border wall, a claim that Peña Nieto is merrily wrecking on Twitter.
“[W] e’re disappointed. We feel misled”. I said we did discuss the wall. “You don’t always win”.
Advertisement
Pena Nieto had on Wednesday afternoon hailed the impromptu meeting with Trump as “open and constructive”.
