“The American people are going to see more clearly that there’s one candidate in this race who’s prepared to take the steps necessary to end the flood of illegal immigration”, Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said Wednesday on CNN.
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Following a fiery speech Wednesday night spelling out an aggressive illegal-immigration policy, some Latinos who had advised Trump came to the conclusion that he wasn’t listening.
“What we can do is hopefully have a strong leadership here who are very clear about why we would find [meeting with Trump] offensive and how it isn’t acceptable”, she says. “People will need to leave the country to be able to obtain legal status or obtain citizenship”.
Giuliani said only two of the Mexico Great hats were kept by the campaign when they departed Mexico for a campaign rally in Arizona.
He promised to deport “criminal aliens” in his first hour in office, said he would “cancel” President Barack Obama’s executive order temporarily protecting some 5 million undocumented people, and called for the use of an “ideological certification” to ensure that visa applicants agree with American values.
After a bruised and chaotic primary season, where his hard-line immigration stance played a pivotal role in routing all other Republican contenders, Trump had recently been signaling that he may be open to a “softening” of his extreme immigration positions.
Just how well was Donald Trump’s immigration speech received?
Aguilar, who has been critical of Trump’s tone and posture on race and immigration in the past, slammed Trump for his plan, with Aguilar describing it as being “even worse than what he initially proposed”. The hats are especially ironic considering Trump has insulted the country numerous times throughout his campaign, not to mention his plan to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border.
If Trump wants to continue making this issue the center of his campaign, he is free to do so.
Pena Nieto’s decision to meet with possibly Mexico’s most-disliked man is turning into a public relations disaster for him, with social media posters and politicians calling it a national humiliation likely to lower the president’s already historically low popularity ratings.
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“What I know is that Mexico will not pay a single cent if they want to build a wall on that side of the border”, he added. The poll by Right-leaning Rasmussen Reports put Mr Trump one point ahead of Mrs Clinton with 40 per cent support.
