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Trump’s Core Immigration Focus: The ‘Well-being of the American People’
“‘We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity”, he added, but noted, “Our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens”. “100 percent. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for the wall.” .
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Pena Nieto, who has publicly voiced skepticism about Trump, has been enmeshed in a controversy over whether he plagiarized some of his 1991 undergraduate law thesis.
The aggressive tone during his speech in Phoenix marked a shift from the NY billionaire’s demeanor earlier in the day, when a much more measured Trump described Mexicans as “amazing people” as he appeared alongside Peña Nieto in Mexico’s capital city.
Hours later, Pena Nieto said in a tweet that he had told Trump clearly in their private meeting that Mexico would not pay.
Donald Trump faces one of the most crucial days of his campaign Wednesday as he travels to Mexico to visit that country’s president and then heads to Arizona to deliver a highly anticipated speech that will seek to clarify his controversial immigration policy.
Ann Coulter, a conservative activist who had fretted that Trump might be softening, tweeted: “I hear Churchill had a nice turn of phrase, but Trump’s immigration speech is the most magnificent speech ever given”.
Trump has shown signs of indecision on whether to go ahead with his previous proposal for a “deportation force” to deport the 11 million people, saying there are some “great people” among the immigrant population and that he would like to work with them.
“Anyone who is in the United States illegally is subject to deportation”.
A few dozen demonstrators gathered beneath a monument to Mexican independence in the center of the capital to protest against the visit, some holding placards emblazoned with captions such as: “You are not Wall-come” and “Trump and Pena out”.
He said that undocumented immigrants seeking legal status would first have to leave and try to return lawfully – a process that can take many years under current procedures.
Trump has already laid out parts of his immigration policy and they resemble some past Republican attempts at immigration reform, like using an E-verify system to ensure that employers hire properly documented workers, and swift deportation of immigrants who have committed crimes.
“We will enforce all of our immigration laws”, the Republican nominee proclaimed.
The Republican nominee also said he will suspend visas to places where adequate screening can not occur, addressing the threat of terrorists entering the United States, adding he wants “extreme vetting”.
And if you were anxious there was going to be a softening of his policy, worry no more. But the difference in how Trump and Pena Nieto recalled their talk was an example of the political risk taken on by two unpopular politicians who arrived at the meeting having spent months quarrelling from afar.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry asserted Monday on Fox News that “Donald Trump’s not softening his position on immigration”.
In Phoenix on Wednesday, Trump held firm on deporting illegal immigrants, prioritizing those with serious criminal records.
“People will know you can’t just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalized”, he said.
Trump promised again to have “extreme vetting” that would bar immigrants from countries that pose a security threat, such as Syria and Libya. “It’s going to end badly”.
Campaigning in Ohio, Democrat Hillary Clinton jabbed at Trump’s Mexican appearance as she promoted her own experience working with foreign leaders as the nation’s chief diplomat.
Trump’s immigration speech comes as he is trailing Clinton in most national polling.
Trump’s “America First” positions are aimed at rallying middle-class people who feel they have lost jobs to illegal immigrants or to the outsourcing of jobs overseas. The campaign quickly backed away from that as some supporters saw a flip-flop on the issue as betraying perhaps the cornerstone of his appeal.
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This article contains material from The Associated Press and The Washington Post.