Returning to Arizona for a campaign speech on immigration after a brief sortie across the border to meet Pena Nieto, Trump told supporters, “Mexico will pay for the wall”.
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Mr Trump repeated comments he made in the immigration speech when he tweeted: “Mexico will pay for the wall!”.
Standing next to Pena Nieto, Trump said the topic of who would pay for the wall would be discussed later.
The hardline speech effectively defied any expectation that the NY real estate developer would soften his tone as the election heats up.
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. “I was thinking maybe Hillary over Trump”, Jensen said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign has been touting a “softening” of his tone on immigration issues, and his well-received appearance alongside Mexico’s president Wednesday afternoon seemed to be part of that tactical change. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that these people can not be detained indefinitely, but without a country to which to return they often are simply released from detention. Her concern now is that a possible President Trump could threaten that.
And it was true last night, when he attacked refugees as a “Trojan horse” and said “countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today if not for the open border policies of this administration”.
This was on top of blocking all federal funding for so-called sanctuary cities – like the one Rudy Giuliani, Trump surrogate, proudly ran as mayor.
Trump made a point of including in his ban the “dreamers”, present in the US now as adults because they were brought to the country as minor children by their parents. And while Trump said that he wouldn’t support a path to citizenship, last month he proposed “back taxing” some of the millions of immigrants living in the USA without permission – a step that would require some form of legalization. “Deport criminal aliens, end catch-and-release, enforce immigration laws and America first”, former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader David Duke tweeted.
“We will build a great wall along the southern border”.
And Trump didn’t do himself any favors by giving the Arizona speech in a rally setting.
Trump also accused Clinton of breaking the federal budget by pledging amnesty and granting welfare to undocumented immigrants in her first 100 days as secretary of state. Lois Pidde, 70, an office manager in Casa Grande, said she agreed with Trump that immigration is a problem, but opposed his proposed solutions, such as the need for a border wall or a suspension of Muslim immigration to shore up national security. “So I’m withdrawing my support”, Aguilar said. “You can not obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country”.
“Within ICE I’m going to create a new special deportation task force”. One imagined Kellyanne Conway, the pollster-cum-campaign manager, arguing for the quickie trip to Mexico and the confab with Peña Nieto.
Still, Trump laid out a series of tough policies to tackle illegal immigration when he delivered his speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday night.
“What’s true, and both parties agree, is (the current immigration system) is broken and it needs fixed, so we can bring people out of the shadows”, Gutierrez said.
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Then, when asked about his proposal to make Mexico pay for his border wall, he said the issue of payment was not discussed.
