Trump said that the small matter of who pays for his massive border wall – at an estimated cost of between $15 billion and $25 billion, per The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler – somehow wasn’t mentioned during his meeting with the man whose government would be footing the bill.
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In some ways the address induced a bit of whiplash in anyone who’d followed the subject over the last week.
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Imagine a President Trump meeting privately with world leaders on issues ranging from trade to security, lying about the substance of their conversations and then delivering an entirely different message at home as though there are no television cameras or Internet. Trump was all zing and zap, emphasizing from the very beginning that he would build a wall, a physical wall, a big attractive impenetrable wall “with above and below ground sensors”, to secure the nation’s southern border.
Hillary Clinton is making a play for Republican Arizona. “He doesn’t respect the people of Mexico; he doesn’t respect immigrants or respect refugees”, Mosqueda continued.
“A hundred percent. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for it”. But Trump is playing a more subtle game on immigration than apoplectic liberals realise.
But Peña Nieto later said he explicitly told Trump Mexico would not pay for the wall.
At the Phoenix rally, Trump also promised that his administration would have zero tolerance toward criminal undocumented immigrants, vowing to create a deportation task force within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division so as to identify and quickly deport them.
Kaine saId: “I think diplomacy is primarily about honesty and candor, and standing up for the values that you believe in”.
“Those are very racist and bigoted remarks that our community doesn’t deserve and that are completely false – especially representing the Mexican-American population, or a portion of the Latino community in the US”, Mr Teixeira said.
But amid the hardline bluster, Trump didn’t repeat his previous commitment to round up and deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the United States – focusing instead on a narrower subset who have committed crimes within the country, and pointedly insisting those already here will have no path to citizenship. Pena Nieto remained silent on the issue at the event, but said later on Twitter he did raise the issue. His top aide, Joe Hunter, was a staffer for Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), a moderate on immigration who was ousted in a primary in 2008 by a well-funded PAC that has campaigned aggressively for reduced immigration in the United States.
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Trump would end all executive orders that limited deportation. Trump detailed a multi-point immigration policy during his speech. So I find his statement that he didn’t bring up, even if it’s true, it shows that he sort of folded under pressure and didn’t have the backbone to say to the Mexican president what he’s been saying over and over again.
