Trump is going for all-out, hard-core anti-immigrant hate, so much so that halfway through his speech comparisons to Hitler an Neo-Naziism were flying on social media.
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Just how well was Donald Trump’s immigration speech received?
Anyone living in the country illegally who is arrested “for any crime whatsoever,” he said, will immediately be placed into deportation proceedings. He said the only way undocumented foreigners could live in the United States legally if he is elected on November 8 would be to leave the country and apply for re-entry.
Donald Trump pressed forward Thursday with his new two-pronged approach to illegal immigration, using friendly rhetoric about Mexico to take some of the edge off his strict border-enforcement agenda. Remember that. To choose immigrants based on merit.
In a major speech in the border state of Arizona on Wednesday, he laid out a tough, 10-point plan to end illegal border crossings and abusive behavior by undocumented people in the country. Virginia Congressman Morgan Griffith said he agrees with Trump’s policies on immigration control and building a wall.
Alfonso Aguilar, the president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, meanwhile, said he may pull his support from Trump’s campaign, according to the news outlet.
“It is still the most extreme position of any modern presidential candidate”, said Frank Sharry, a leading immigration advocate.
In the essay, Pena Nieto explains he was “very clear” with Trump that Mexicans felt offended and hurt by his negative declarations about their country and again stated that they would not pay for a wall.
At a joint press conference, Trump said the two talked about his plans for a wall on the United States’ southern border but the topic of who pays for it did not come up. They relented and said they’d vote for him.
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”.
He said he would cancel the “illegal” Obama executive orders that have allowed some undocumented immigrants to remain in the USA, such as the so-called “Dreamers”, children who were brought in illegally by their parents.
Jacob Monty, a Houston lawyer and key proponent of the Latino case for Trump, resigned from Mr Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council following the Republican presidential hopeful’s remarks in Phoenix, Arizona. “It’s our right, as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us”.
“Now is the time for the media to begin asking questions on their behalf”.
“Mexico will pay for the wall, 100 percent”, the NY businessman said. After a long pause amid a chorus of applause, he continued “and Mexico will pay for the wall – 100%”.
“After that, the conversation moved on to other topics and unfolded in a respectful manner”, he added in another tweet.
Gone was the comparatively mellow, conciliatory Trump of his Mexico City meeting just hours earlier. He piled on in the months to come, attacked the country over trade, illegal immigration and border security.
Some Mexican officials also privately expressed reservations about the meeting with one former diplomat saying Pena Nieto had done Trump’s campaign a favour.
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“People have to get to know that they can count on you, that you won’t say one thing one day and something totally different the next”, she told the American Legion in Cincinnati.
