“Illegal immigration is a problem for Mexico as well as for us”, he said.
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He added: “There will be no amnesty”.
The billionaire candidate’s plan includes deporting immigrants with criminal records, cancelling President Barack Obama’s executive orders protecting millions of undocumented migrants, and blocking federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities” that bar discrimination against the undocumented.
Clinton’ campaign website promises she will provide “a pathway to full and equal citizenship within her first 100 days in office”.
“There’s a saying ‘Tell me who you know and I’ll tell you who you are.’ Donald Trump is turning politics into reality television and pulling it into his land of make believe where he could say anything”.
Donald Trump has defended the right of the United States to build a massive wall along its southern border during his first visit to Mexico as the Republican presidential candidate, and triggered a fresh controversy over who will foot the bill for it that could cost billions of dollars.
Donald Trump was in OH today, doubling down on his promise to build a wall along the southern border – and having Mexico foot the bill.
“And Mexico will pay for the wall”. And Mexico will pay for the wall.
Mr Trump put on his most restrained, presidential public appearance during a joint press conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. “They’re sending rapists, murderers”, said Rondin.
“That risk, that threat, must be confronted. I told him that is not the way to build a mutually beneficial relationship for both nations”.
The announcement follows what the campaign calls a “disastrous” immigration speech by Donald Trump in Phoenix on Wednesday.
Other members of Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, however, offered different takes on the speech.
Trump, meanwhile, has lauded Mexican-Americans who have arrived in the USA legally, calling them “spectacular” and “hard-working”, but has not indicated much sympathy for those who are undocumented.
The takeaway: Trump’s immigration speech clearly did much to enrage his foes and potentially soothed harder-right spectators who anxious that he might be easing up on one of the signature issues of his unorthodox campaign. 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.
In December, Trump called for barring foreign Muslims from entering the country – a move that was widely criticized by Democrats and his Republican primary opponents. And hiring more border patrol agents, and tripling the number of deportation officers.
Trump’s divisive rhetoric about Hispanics and immigration poses a conundrum for Hispanic Republicans, who may support a more hawkish border stance but are finding it hard to grapple with Trump’s rhetoric about the Hispanic community.
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“Trump has been clear since day one that he will make America safe again by first securing our borders and enforcing current immigration laws”, he said. Arizona, a reliably Republican state in past elections, could prove to be a close race in the battle between Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
