Trump’s visit with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto came hours ahead of a speech the Republican candidate is scheduled to deliver in Phoenix on the topic of immigration.
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Trump, for his part, said Trump says he and the president had discussed his call for a border wall during their meeting, but did not talk about Trump’s insistence that Mexico pay for it.
“Trump not welcome in Mexico, not by me nor the 130 million Mexicans”, tweeted the country’s former president Vicente Fox, who dropped an “f-bomb” on television in February when describing Mr Trump’s border wall plan.
“After saying during his primary campaign he would use a “deportation force” to expel all of the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally”, Trump has suggested recently he might be open to “softening” his stance.
“Our message to the world will be this: You can not obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country”, he said.
Donald Trump piñatas and harsh words about the Republican nominee’s trip to Mexico City from anti-Trump protestors like Diana Colin with CHIRLA Action Fund.
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 USA presidential hopeful’s anti-Mexican campaign rhetoric.
“While there are many illegal immigrants in our country who are good people -many, many – this doesn’t change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower-skilled workers with less education who compete directly with vulnerable American workers”, Trump added.
Following their sit-down, Trump told journalists he now considers the Mexican leader “a friend”. “Donald Trump is someone that says, ‘We got an invitation”.
However, Nieto tells a different story. Despite praising his meeting with Mexico’s Nieto as “substantive” and “constructive”, Trump took on a much harsher tone in his speech to supporters in Arizona.
“President Obama and Hillary Clinton support sanctuary cities, they support catch and release on the border, they support visa overstays, they support the release of dangerous, dangerous, dangerous criminals from detention and they support unconstitutional executive amnesty”, Trump said.
Trump’s position on immigration has waffled in recent days.
So even if it was an “excellent” and “preliminary” meeting, as Trump described it on Wednesday, Mexico and US relations would not be easy if Trump were elected president. We don’t want him.
But it’s not just illegal immigration that will be a target for the Trump White House.
In a closely-watched speech detailing his policy on illegal immigration, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump insisted that he will build a wall along the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants and will create a taskforce that will hunt undocumented immigrants to deport from the United States.
Campaigning in Ohio, Clinton jabbed at Trump’s Mexican visit as she promoted her own experience working with foreign leaders as the nation’s chief diplomat.
“The wellbeing of the American people matters”, he said. Pena Nieto has condemned Trump’s language and even compared him to Adolf Hitler.
The Washington Post first reported Tuesday that Trump was considering making the trip to Mexico.
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Building a massive wall along the United States border with Mexico and forcing the neighbouring country to pay for it has been a frequent promise during Trump’s divisive election campaign. Nora Alvarez and her children listen closely to what they had to say.
