Yesterday, the Republican Party nominee went to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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“100%. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for the wall”, he said, speaking hours after the Mexican President told him in a face-to-face meeting in Mexico City that Mexico would not pay for it. Trump is calling h.
“President Obama deported more people in his first administration than President Bush had done under his administration”, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration law at Cornell University Law School. Increased border security and a slow-growing USA economy are thought to have discouraged illegal immigration. “Those days are over”.
He also drew cheers when he outlined plans to create a special task force that would prioritize the deportation of criminals, people who have overstayed their visas and other immediate security threats.
Even as he beat a retreat from his earlier pledge to deport all illegal immigrants from the country, Trump’s aggressive tone in Phoenix marked a shift from earlier in the day.
Now, some feel Trump misled them.
Any person living in the country illegally who is arrested “for any crime whatsoever”, he said, will immediately be placed into deportation proceedings.
A few hours later, Pena Nieto contradicted Trump, saying he had told the American that Mexico would not foot the bill.
“He said, ‘Yes, ‘ and he thought we would be very pleased on Wednesday”, said Suarez. “The impression given on the call was not what we heard last night”.
The speech also got reaction from City Hall after Trump vowed to defund sanctuary cities like NY, which he says provides a haven for violent immigrants.
“At this point, I just don’t see how I can support him”.
“There was no way I could continue to be part of a prop apparatus for Mr Trump”, he said. I knew this could happen. No, Donald Trump has not softened.
“I texted them just to be official that I would not be giving an endorsement and serving on the council was out of the question”, Gonzales told BuzzFeed News.
However, the Trump campaign has attempted to deflect the importance being attached to the meeting.
He added: “Within ICE I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most risky criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice just like Hillary Clinton has evaded justice, OK?”
Ramiro Pena, another member of the council, is reconsidering his support, too, and sent an email to top Trump and RNC officials, according to Politico. Trump may have reassured supporters who feared he was moderating, but he did nothing to reach out to voters dissatisfied with both presidential candidates. “I won’t vote for her, but I certainly am not going to help Donald Trump”.
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“Tonight he was not a Republican but a populist, modern-day Father Coughlin who demonized immigrants”, he continued, referring to an anti-Semitic priest who gained prominence as a radio personality in the 1930s.
