U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday pledged to begin building a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border and deporting undocumented immigrants on the first day of his presidency, if elected.
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Monty had been all in for Trump, telling The Texas Tribune in an interview Monday that he was “unabashedly supporting” Trump because he believed Trump was the only candidate who could fix the immigration system.
As recently as Monday, he said, the GOP presidential nominee had signaled on a conference call with faith leaders that they could expect to see a gentler, more compassionate Trump in the speech.
But the Mexican President fired back: “I repeat what I said personally, Mr Trump”. “We agreed on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns and people across our border and to put the cartels out of business”, he said.
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Trump took a last-minute visit to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with the president of Mexico, whose people Trump regularly insults during the 2016 campaign.
The Trump presidential campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump stopped short of calling for the mass deportation of millions of people who have not committed crimes beyond their immigration offenses.
He repeated that he told Trump in person that Mexico would “in no way” pay for the proposed border wall.
The New York billionaire started his campaign a year ago with attacks on illegal Mexican immigrants, claiming majority are “rapists” or other kinds of criminals and proposing to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. “Mexico’s going to pay it”. “I hope that he does really, in his heart, have a little more compassion than what he spouts out”, said Dave Mitchell, 58, of Surprise, Arizona, a self-described moderate who says he is begrudgingly planning to vote for Trump.
“Having a secure border is a sovereign right and mutually beneficial”, Trump said.
But the aftermath of the meeting turned sour as Mr Pena Nieto contradicted the Republican’s claim that they had not discussed paying for the wall, saying he had flatly told Mr Trump that Mexico “would not pay for the wall”.
According to a recent Monmouth University poll, a whopping 69 percent of voters don’t feel threatened by undocumented immigrants from Mexico, despite Trump’s constant warnings that there is a violent, undocumented immigrant hiding under the bed of every American.
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It all started yesterday during the pair’s dual media appearance in which Trump’s remarks on Mexico and immigration sounded unlike anything we’ve heard from him during this campaign.
