U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will meet Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday in a hastily arranged visit to Mexico hours before delivering a highly anticipated speech on how he will tackle illegal immigration.
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On the day he entered the race for the White House in June of 2015, Trump memorably went after the country on the issue of illegal immigration.
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They weren’t the strongest words he’s had for the NY billionaire, either. Fox added: “We don’t like him”.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, who has been fiercely critical of Trump, on Wednesday blasted the visit, saying Trump was untrustworthy and that Pena Nieto’s invitation appeared aimed at boosting his own flagging popularity at home.
And he also might want to avoid former First Lady Margarita Zavala.
After meeting with Pena Nieto in Mexico, Trump is scheduled to travel to Arizona to deliver an evening speech created to clarify his stance on immigration reform. He is under pressure to clarify just where he stands in a speech that’s been rescheduled several times as he and his staff has sent varied and conflicting messages on the issue.
Some residents of Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood said they were not pleased with the Trump going to Mexico.
Conway told MSNBC on Tuesday that Trump was active in drafting his speech and was dead set against any proposal that might be seen as providing amnesty to illegal immigrants. The newspaper El Universal wrote in an editorial that Trump “caught Mexican diplomats off guard” by accepting the invitation.
Trump didn’t take kindly to the cursing. That’s in large part due to his long-running promise to build a wall between the two countries, the cost of which Trump says will be footed by Mexico.
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.
More recently, Nieto has indicated that he would be “respectful” of Trump and “will seek to work with whoever becomes the next president”.
“It would have been very easy to say, ‘Let’s get together, let’s talk for days and days and figure out how to make this happen, ‘” Pence said.
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“They must be afraid he might win, and so they’re saying, ‘Just in case, we’ll shake his hand”, Garnica said. Trump does. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place. “Stop lying! Mexico is not yours to play with, show some respect”. After one such roundtable this month, his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said Trump’s stance on using a deportation force to expel people was “to be determined”. He has flatly rejected Trump’s suggestion that Mexico would pay for a border wall, and even compared Trump to dictators like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in comments from March.
