“Nobody can tell me I plagiarized my thesis”, the president said.
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He tweeted that, “At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”.
Kihuen spent several minutes also speaking in Spanish, telling Latino voters that Trump posed a threat to DACA and DAPA programs, which provide leniency for immigrants who arrived in the USA before 2010 to legally reside and seek employment.
“There was never any pivot”, said Doug Heye, a former Republican National Committee spokesman who has been critical of Trump.
Mexico’s president rebuked Donald Trump as a threat to his country just hours after painting a positive picture of talks the two held on Wednesday to try to defuse tensions over the US presidential hopeful’s anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric.
The only way for illegal immigrants to live here legally would be to return to their home countries and apply to enter the United States legally, he said.
Trump reverted to tough talk when he got to Phoenix Wednesday night to end the suspense he had ginned up on whether he would soften his plans for immigrants here illegally.
Campaigning in Ohio, Democrat Hillary Clinton jabbed at Trump’s Mexican appearance as she promoted her own experience working with foreign leaders as the nation’s chief diplomat. “One hundred percent. They don’t know it, but they’re going to pay for it”.
The Washington Post reports that Trump’s visit to Mexico, where he held a joint press conference with President Enrique Peña Nieto, angered and baffled many Mexicans.
Ann Coulter, a conservative activist who had fretted that Trump might be softening, tweeted: “I hear Churchill had a nice turn of phrase, but Trump’s immigration speech is the most magnificent speech ever given”. And just in case there were any doubt about what a Trump administration would be like, The Donald was clear: “Everyone not following immigration laws is subject to deportation”.
There were no protesters that met Trump’s plane when it landed in Mexico City.
The speech, which postulated crime prevention as a rationale, came just hours after Trump travelled to Mexico at the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto.
But Trump was adamant in his speech in Arizona that Mexico would indeed finance the wall if he becomes president.
Trump had earlier denied the two discussed who would foot the bill for a wall. In other words he would not deport all 11 million-or-so illegal immigrants living in the United States, and doing so is unnecessary to fix the immigration system. Within hours her campaign had released a video portraying Trump – who claims to have literally written the book on negotiation- as a bad negotiator.
Donald Trump says that that, if he’s elected president, he’ll work on “promoting American pride and patriotism in America’s schools”.
After a week of a softer and more compassionate tone on immigration, Trump took to the stage in Phoenix to lay out his plan to create a “deportation force” and build a wall on the U.S. -Mexico border that Mexico will pay for.
Angelica Salas, chair of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of America Action Fund, served up harsh criticism for Trump’s Wednesday speech, saying viewers saw “the makings of a tyrant who is racist” in the speech.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Mexican government official said the two men spoke English during the meeting and that Pena Nieto clearly explained to Trump the offense his comments had caused.
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He acknowledged Mexicans’ “enormous indignation” over Trump’s presence in the country and repeated that he told him in person Mexico would in no way pay for the proposed border wall.
