“We are united by our support for democracy, our love for our people, and the contributions of millions of Mexican Americans to the United States”, Trump said in Mexico City.
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“There is only one core issue in the immigration debate”, Trump said, “and that issue is the well-being of the American people”.
Donald Trump vowed Wednesday “there will be no amnesty”, making his case for a United States less hospitable to, and accessible for, undocumented immigrants.
The announcement follows what the campaign calls a “disastrous” immigration speech by Donald Trump in Phoenix on Wednesday.
“Importantly, in several years, when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good. then, and only then, will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain”, he said. “To return home and apply for re-entry like everybody else under the rules of the new legal immigration system that I have outlined today”, the Republican presidential nominee said. He is simply vowing to maintain and enforce existing USA law, rather than proactively tell million of people who’ve broken it that they will face no consequences.
As recently as Monday, he said, the GOP presidential nominee had signaled on a conference call with faith leaders that they could expect to see a gentler, more compassionate Trump in the speech.
That omission didn’t bother Dan Stein, who leads the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that pushes for stricter immigration policies.
Trump emphasized that his immigration policy will be about more than protecting Americans from crime.
The real estate mogul’s accusations that Mexico sends rapists and drug runners to the United States, and his threats to build a border wall and tear up trade deals, have angered the government but his meeting with Pena Nieto on Wednesday gave him a chance to present himself in a more moderate light.
“We take anybody, just come on in”, Donald Trump said.
“It is still the most extreme position of any modern presidential candidate”, said Frank Sharry, a leading immigration advocate.
He remains deeply unpopular with Hispanic voters.
Even as he beat a retreat from his earlier pledge to deport all illegal immigrants from the country, Trump’s aggressive tone in Phoenix marked a shift from earlier in the day.
As Donald Trump traveled to Mexico Wednesday to meet with the nation’s president, the country’s small Jewish community is keeping a wary eye on the US presidential hopeful. During a joint press conference, Trump told reporters the two had not discussed who would pay for the wall, but Peña disputed the billionaire’s claims.
However, rival paper El Universal defended the decision saying Mr Pena Nieto’s meeting with Donald Trump was a “necessary step” in securing Mexico’s relationship with its most important economic and political partner.
With the meeting held behind closed doors, it was impossible to know who was telling the truth.
“We will build a great wall along the southern border”, Trump said in the Arizona speech.
But Trump was adamant in his speech in Arizona that Mexico would indeed finance the wall if he becomes president.
“He showed us, very clearly, what’s at stake in this election by painting a picture of his idea of America: one in which immigrants are not welcomed and one in which innocent families are torn apart”, she said. “You can’t say different things to different audiences”, Kaine said.
Opposition politicians in Mexico rounded on Pena Nieto for hosting Trump. Anyone who has remained in the USA illegally for over six months who leaves the country – for any reason – is automatically subject to a ban on re-entry for three years, ten years, or sometimes permanently.
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He ripped into the “Obama/Clinton” immigration failures, even though Hillary Clinton, in her former role as Secretary of State, did not set immigration policy.
