Trump’s Phoenix address, which was flagged as a major policy speech, occurred just hours after he met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City.
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Trump may have tweaked some of his past language on the issue, and he clearly wanted to place some extra emphasis on the deportation of criminal illegal immigrants.
Kaine, campaigning in New Hampshire, is casting Trump as gutless.
This was the Trump we all knew, the Trump who questions the judicial independence of an American-born judge because of his Mexican heritage, who fights with Mexican American journalists, and who asserts that Mexico is “killing us”.
Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, Ohio, Trump says that, as president, he would “treat everyone with dignity, respect and compassion”.
Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign slammed Republican rival Donald Trump’s high-profile immigration speech Thursday as “his darkest” yet, contending that the billionaire businessman is promoting divisiveness and hate through his hardline policy proposals. But when Trump talks about cutting off the drugs, the money, the weapons… She said she had hoped Trump would take a more moderate tone after the meeting with the Mexican president, but was disappointed by his speech later that day in her home state. Not any more. Remember, under a Trump administration, it’s called America first.
Whether by design or through a continuing lack of specificity about methods, deadlines and feasibility, Trump is leaving the door in his proposed “great wall” open at least a crack to future calibration. Pena said he felt like he had been part of a “scam”.
His big immigration speech Wednesday night in Phoenix – mere hours after his Mexico City visit – made it plain that the real Trump would much rather scapegoat and demonize immigrants than seek a humane and workable fix to our broken immigration system. Trump’s plans could lead to the deportation of more than six million illegal immigrants. “I used to be able to turn him off when he was on “The Apprentice” and I’d like to keep it that way”, she said, referring to Trump’s reality TV show.
Trump made only brief references to such issues Wednesday.
However, again, Trump shifted his emphasis – saying those officers would work with local and state law enforcement officials to round up criminals immediately, rather than suggesting they’d boot all undocumented immigrants, regardless of their actions within the United States.
Trump pretended like he hadn’t seen or heard that one, insisting in his immigration speech Wednesday night in Arizona that Mexico will pay for the wall, “100 percent”.
Trump has constantly berated Mexico during his election campaign, terming migrants from the country as “rapists” and “murderers” and vowed to build a wall on the US’ southern border to prevent millions of illegal migrants entering the country, angering Mexicans.
“If we can save American lives, American jobs and American futures, together we can save America itself”. He added: “They’re great people, and great leaders, but they will pay for the wall”.
The New York billionaire started his campaign past year with attacks on illegal Mexican immigrants, claiming majority are “rapists” or other kinds of criminals and proposing to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.
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He lambasted millions of immigrants as violent criminals and a drain on the USA government, ahe vowed that no person living in the United States illegally would have a path to legal status without first leaving the country.
