She characterized Mr. Trump’s Mexico City interlude as “trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again”. It is a title he vies for only with Mr Peno Nieto.
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The Mexican people also wanted President Pena Nieto to trash Trump for calling them “rapists” and “drug dealers”, but Enrique defended his meeting.
Trump is using his presidential campaign to engage in petty feuds while boosting his own ego. One volunteer at the center says Trump’s current approach is reminiscent of one infamous and prejudicial leader. “So that we know who is in the country, what their purposes are for and what their ideology is”, Olmo said.
“For the last two months he said he was not going to deport people without criminal records”.
Some members of Donald Trump’s advisory council are withdrawing their support after his tough anti-immigration speech in Arizona Wednesday night. Asked afterward whether he thought Trump’s immigration plan would help Republicans attract Hispanics’ votes, he said he wasn’t going “to stand up for Donald Trump’s plan”.
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. Trump said there are “at least 2 million criminal aliens now inside the country”, who would be deported immediately if he becomes president.
Border Patrol agents have doubled and the 2013 Senate bill proposed a bigger increase than Trump: The number of authorized agents has more than doubled since 2002 to more than 21,000.
But Pena Nieto contradicted Trump, tweeting that he had told the Republican nominee in their meeting that Mexico would not pay for such a wall. Clinton campaign chair John Podesta said in a statement, “This is embarrassing to Donald Trump and offensive to people who are impacted by and care about the very serious issue of immigration”.
She also supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which provides legal status to children who arrive in the country illegally, as well as Deferred Action for Parental Accountability, which would allow immigrant parents of children born in the U.S.to receive a work permit and avoid deportation.
Televisa news anchor Carlos Loret de Mola marveled that Trump would dare come to Mexico and reiterate his intention to build the wall.
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Clinton raised about $143 million in August for her presidential bid and the Democratic Party, her campaign announced. And so I chose to support him and I thought that we could work with him and the campaign to move him to the center on immigration.
