Trump has failed in his first foreign policy test, his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said as the real estate tycoon returned from Mexico City. That’s what Mexicans saw on Wednesday: two sides of the Republican candidate. Until yesterday, Aguilar was a prominent surrogate for Trump. But when he looked President Pena Nieto in the eye, he couldn’t even bring that up.
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Nieto also told a reporter Wednesday night that Trump’s ideas were “a threat to the future of Mexico”.
Trump launched his campaign previous year on a promise to build a wall along the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration, and accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug dealers into the United States.
On Twitter early on Thursday, Trump wrote, “Mexico will pay for the wall!”.
Kaine also says Trump’s casting of Mexican immigrants as criminals is similar to past discrimination against Irish and Jewish people.
Trump is taking full responsibility for coming up with the new tagline. Last night, Trump spoke at length in Phoenix about his plan to combat illegal immigration.
That speech came after Trump and his campaign team had telegraphed a softening of his position, including when Trump polled the audience on what to do about illegal immigration on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox last week.
Donald Trump says that that, if he’s elected president, he’ll work on “promoting American pride and patriotism in America’s schools”. Instead, Trump stuck with the hardline views that got him through the primaries, appearing to back little away from his pledge to deport many people who are in the United States unlawfully.
A day after delivering a hard-line speech on immigration, Donald Trump is continuing to stress his America-first approach.
Not only did Pena Nieto not demand that Trump apologise for calling Mexican migrants rapists and criminals, but he stood silently by in their joint press conference while the Republican candidate repeated his promise to build a border wall between the countries.
“This is not someone I want to be associated with”, Monty said.
Trump told the rowdy Arizona crowd that he respects the Mexican president.
Trump’s spokesperson responded by saying, “It was not a negotiation, and that would have been inappropriate”.
However, there was a dispute over whether the pair discussed who would pay for the Republican nominee’s proposed border wall.
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He said all people in the United States illegally would have “only one route” to gain legal status if Trump were to win the Nov 8 presidential election: “To return home and apply for re-entry”.
