Trump In Mexico: Stop The Illegals Quickly!!
Trump Talks Border Wall in Mexico, but Not Payment
By Steve Peoples and Christopher Sherman
Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shake hands after a joint statement at Los Pinos, the presidential official residence, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Trump called the surprise visit a "great honor," and that they had a "substantive, direct and constructive exchange of ideas."
After meeting with Mexico's president on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the United Stats and Mexico must work to end illegal immigration together.
"It must be solved quickly," he said.
His remarks covered what he said were the two countries' shared interests: stopping the flow of illegal immigration and guns across their border. And while he insisted that countries should have a right to build a wall on the border, he didn't mention — and didn't discuss with President Enrique Pena Nieto — which country would pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Trump's biggest campaign promises.
"We did discuss the wall, we didn't discuss payment of the wall," Trump said, responding to a reporter's question. "That will be at a later date."
politically risky move 10 weeks before Election Day, puts Trump in a country where he's widely despised alongside a foreign leader who has compared him to Adolf Hitler.
More than 100 members of the Mexican press were gathered at Pena Nieto's residence, where the meeting took place. It comes hours before the Republican presidential nominee delivers a highly anticipated speech in Arizona about illegal immigration, a defining issue of Trump's presidential campaign, but also one on which he's appeared to waver in recent days.
The visit follows an invitation from Nieto, who agreed that the border must become more efficient and safer, though he also insisted Mexicans deserve the respect of everyone and that he understands that some of his countrymen have been offended by Trump's remarks.
Trump has promised, if elected, to deport millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally, force Mexico to build a wall to secure the nearly 2,000-mile border and renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement to make it more favorable to the United States.
Trump arrived, both a former Mexican president and first lady bluntly told the billionaire New Yorker that, despite Pena Nieto's hospitality, he's not welcome.
"We don't like him. We don't want him. We reject his visit," former Mexican President Vicente Fox told CNN, calling the trip a "political stunt." Added former first lady Margarita Zavala on Twitter: "We Mexicans have dignity, and we reject your hate speech."
After saying during his Republican primary campaign he would use a "deportation force" to expel all of the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally," Trump suggested last week he could soften that stance. But he still says he plans to build a huge wall — paid for by Mexico — along the two nations' border. 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.
"The American people are going to see more clearly that there's one candidate in this race who's prepared to take the steps necessary to end the flood of illegal immigration," Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said Wednesday on CNN.
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