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Mexican president tweets to Trump: ‘Mexico will never pay for a wall’

In his speech on immigration late Wednesday, Trump capped a list of steps to combat illegal immigration, with a final pledge to completely revamp the country’s legal immigration system in order to lessen the number of people allowed into the United States.

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“I felt so cool, I felt so excited”.

Instead I’d like Hillary Clinton, who not only was a great Armed Services Committee member – and I serve on that committee too – but was our chief diplomat and understands to be strong we have to have a strong military but we also have to have strong alliances, not tearing up alliances or behaving in amateurish ways when it comes to dealing with global leaders.

Trump’s spokesperson responded by saying, “It was not a negotiation, and that would have been inappropriate”.

Trump hosted an August 20 meeting of his Hispanic council at Trump Tower and followed up with a statesmanlike visit to Mexico, topped off by a thoughtful-sounding joint appearance with the country’s president.

But Pena Nieto, facing mounting disapproval from Mexican citizens over his invitation Trump, painted a different picture of their meeting.

“My opponent in this race has said very clearly that he thinks American exceptionalism is insulting to the rest of the world”, the former secretary of state said.

On Thursday, Monty told the campaign that he could no longer be on the advisory board.

“I’ve always assumed this race would be hard”, he said.

He added that he ‘cannot with any conscience support Hillary [Clinton]’.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the opening session of the Western Conservative Summit, Friday, July 1, 2016, in Denver.

Trump again vowed that Mexico would pay for construction of a “great border wall” between the two countries.

The rest of his hour-long speech, however, was spent outlining the policy proposals he announced a year ago.

Although the Time’s initial story in question was - as Media Matters’ Research Director Matthew Gertz noted - heavily edited after publication, much of the original text remains, 12 hours after Trump’s speech.

But when Trump became the nominee, some members decided he was their best option.

Trump is trailing Clinton in surveys and several of Trump’s major Latino supporters said they are considering dropping their backing following his speech, Politico reported. Aguilar said that endorsement established communication with the campaign.

Waco, Texas pastor Ramino Pena said he would have to reconsider his support.

“We have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and its impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions”, Trump said.

But it wasn’t all bad news for Trump.

IN 2001, John Howard delivered his famous line-in-the-sand speech on illegal immigration and border protection.

“I will not retreat from the table because if I do then I will not have a word to say”, Delgado told USA TODAY.

Yet the Republican candidate failed to outline what he would do with those who have not committed crimes beyond their immigration offenses – a retreat from promises during his primary campaign to create a “deportation force” to remove the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally.

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“That re-entry thing is what gets me”. “We have to listen to his next speech, I guess”.

Brian Snyder  Reuters