He did however claim that under his presidency, there would be no path to legal status for the undocumented immigrants living illegally in the United States. He piled on in the months to come, attacked the country over free trade, illegal immigration and border security.
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Illegal migrants would have “only one route”, that is, “to return home and apply for re-entry”.
Trump is summing up a almost hour-long talk without effectively changing his overall position, the crux of his campaign for more than a year. “But we now have an obligation to them”, Trump said, echoing Obama’s 2014 sentiment.
If true, Kaine said, Trump “sort of folded under pressure”. He is not offering any details.
Despite how much Trump bashes the president, the Republican nominee would likely have agreed. Basically, by denying any chance of obtaining the legal status for those who come into the USA illegally, a potential Trump administration would force them to go back to their countries on their own.
PHOENIX | Seeking to end confusion over his aggressive but recently muddled language on immigration, Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to remove millions of people living in the country illegally if he becomes president, warning that failure to do so would jeopardize the “well-being of the American people”.
The Mexican president did not respond at that point, but later tweeted, “At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”. “Day one, my first hour in office, those people are gone”.
He has said the wall doesn’t need to run the almost 2,000 miles of the border, but half of that because of natural barriers. Kaine said he anticipated a hard battle from the beginning.
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 United States presidential hopeful’s anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric.
“It sounds so nasty to say it because the politically correct thing would be to say ‘peace and love, one beautiful country, everybody comes in, you have, you share.’ But the reality is that it comes to a point where you don’t have any more to share”, Guillen said.
Three WNYC reporters watched the speech with conservative New Yorkers to gauge their reactions to Trump’s speech. “They don’t know it yet but they’re going to pay for it”.
“They don’t know it yet they are going to pay for it”.
The payment question came under some scrutiny earlier Wednesday after a visit to Mexico, where Trump met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
He told a cheering crowd in Arizona that he would secure the border, and left open the possibility that millions of illegal immigrants be deported. But his immigration position was one of the core policies distinguishing Trump from the other Republican nominees.
Monty says he will not support Hillary Clinton and instead will focus on down-ballot races. It was an entirely different Donald Trump.
Before Trump took the stage, families of such victims addressed the audience, describing how their children or loved ones were killed and thanking Trump for his promise to enforce the U.S.
“We might disagree on several issues, but your presence here”, he told Mr. Trump, “shows that we do have fundamental common ground”.
Trump, meanwhile, flew to Arizona for a highly-publicized speech about his immigration reform policies and was direct in his own right about who he believed would be footing the bill.
If you’ve ever seen any coverage of a Trump campaign rally, chances are you’ve seen him talking about Mexico. “Both countries, we’re all going to win”.
And while Trump may want to “make Mexico great again also”, the people of Mexico weren’t particularly pleased with Trump’s visit on Wednesday.
Trump’s position on immigration has waffled in recent days. Pena Nieto remained silent on the issue at the event, but said later on Twitter he did raise the issue. From there, a helicopter whisked him off to the presidential palace, where the two discussed the Republican’s plans to build a border wall if elected.
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During a joint news conference after their meeting, Trump said he and Pena Nieto had not discussed his demand that Mexico pay for the border wall. Jeff Sessions wore the white hats when they introduced Trump in Phoenix.
