Donald Trump’s controversial trip to Mexico on Wednesday was met with anger and harsh criticism among both Hollywood and prominent Mexican figures.
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Mexico’s President Enrico Pena Nieto agreed that it was the US’ prerogative to build a wall on its side of the border, but Mexico would not pay for it the way Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had insisted.
However, there was a dispute over whether the pair discussed who would pay for the Republican nominee’s proposed border wall. While the wall was brought up in the private meeting, it was not discussed who would pay for it, Trump said while taking questions from reporters.
But Pena Nieto, facing mounting disapproval from Mexican citizens over his invitation Trump, painted a different picture of their meeting.
“I just came back from a wonderful meeting with the president of Mexico, where I expressed my deep respect for the people of his country, and for the tremendous contributions of Mexican-Americans in our country”, Trump said.
“Imagine a president promising to make another country pay for the centerpiece of his agenda”.
Trump supporter Jerry Zarella pleased with what his candidate had to say. “A lot of the families in America are mixed families, with some of them having parents that are undocumented but having children who are US citizens”.
“Obviously I want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, I want to get the drug dealers out”, said Trump.
“His policy stances could represent a huge threat to Mexico, and I am not prepared to keep my arms crossed and do nothing”, Pena Nieto stated in a TV interview quoted by The Telegrapgh.
He said any person living in the country illegally who is arrested for any crime whatsoever will immediately be placed into deportation proceedings.
He said immigrants would have to return home and re-apply for re-entry.
Referring to the Mexican government, he said: ‘They’re great people, great leaders, but they’re going to pay for the wall’. Much of the uncertainty in the week leading up to the speech centred on how Mr Trump meant to deal with millions of undocumented immigrants who had not engaged in criminal activity.
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Clinton also wants to continue current USA policy to deport those who have committed crimes, but Trump objects to executive orders signed by President Barack Obama offering deferred enforcement to certain categories of people with no criminal record. “They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”, he said.
