In his highly anticipated speech in Phoenix, Trump embraced a hardline conservative position – painting a bleak picture of the impact of immigration, rallying the Republican base and defending his signature proposal: a wall on the US-Mexico border.
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Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump on Wednesday stood alongside Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto and reiterated his campaign declaration that the United States can and will erect a border wall to stem illegal immigration. “This is what I have shared with candidate Trump”, added Pena Nieto.
Trump’s visit to Mexico City took place hours before he was due to deliver a highly anticipated speech in the USA border state of Arizona on how he will tackle illegal immigration if he wins the election.
But Pena Nieto later tweeted: “I made it clear Mexico would not pay for the wall”. “It is our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us”, Trump said.
In his speech, Trump emphasized that his priority in cracking down on the undocumented population in the United States would be to quickly deport those who have committed serious crimes.
The Republican nominee promised that no surplus visas would be awarded under his presidency and that a legal status or citizenship would be impossible to obtain if a person enters the United States illegally. “We will not permit him to use our Country for his own interests”. “We reject his message” Fox said. He acknowledged the two men had differences, but he described their conversation as “open and constructive”.
“I have such great respect for them and their strong values of family, faith, and community”, Trump said.
The Republican presidential nominee arrived in Arizona hours after his meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. “The lowest point of the most painful day in the history of the Mexican presidency”.
Trump has sparked questions about his stance on the key issue after appearing to soften his tone on mass deportation, though his campaign insists his policies have not shifted.
He criticized Clinton’s proposed policy regarding immigrants to the US, saying that she cares more about the “needs of people living here illegally” than American citizens.
With Mr Trump trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton in most polls, the trip could allow him to seize control of the campaign narrative at a crucial time and capitalize on dramatic optics that put him on the stage with a global leader.
-Mexican border and said the North American Free Trade Agreement must be renegotiated to end what he views as deal that has allowed US manufacturing jobs to move south.
Mr Pena Nieto, who was elected in 2012, also invited Mrs Clinton, but the former secretary of state’s campaign has announced no plans for a visit.
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. Silent at that moment, Pena Nieto later tweeted, “I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”. In a March interview, he said that “there is no scenario” under which Mexico would do so and compared Trump’s language to that of dictators Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
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