For Donald Trump, a day of political whiplash on immigration

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Ariz., on Wednesday. Notably, the Republican presidential candidate-actually, you know what?

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions of people in his first hour as president of the US.

“I was expecting at least some tentative effort to present a moderate tone at least on some issues – he wasn’t going to reverse himself with the wall – as a way of seeming presidential and reaching out to the moderate suburban voters that he seems to be alienating”, DeSipio said.

Heading into Wednesday’s speech, the big question was whether Trump would continue “softening” on his core issue, making him a hypocrite, or revert back to his typical demagoguery, making him wrong and far outside the mainstream.

The rest of Trump’s event also seemed programmed to highlight his anti-illegal-immigration credentials. Would he turn his back on the nativism that his fan base knows and loves?

If Trump becomes the US President, he plans to deport the immigrants with criminal records and millions of undocumented migrants who are protected under President Barack Obama’s executive orders.

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following: amnesty, open borders, and lower wages. It seemed to contradict Trump’s statement that payment wasn’t discussed, but the president’s office said only that Pena Nieto made his statement and the topic was dropped.

Trump has previously called Mexicans “rapists”, suggested that a federal judge was biased against him due to his Mexican heritage, and put his promised wall along the US-Mexico border at the center of his campaign.

“Nobody wins, neither of the two countries would, when drug traffickers take advantage of people, when there is cartel violence, when there are illegal weapons and money flowing from one country to the other, or when Central American migrants make the risky journey towards Mexico or the United States without legal authorization”, Trump said.

Wednesday’s delivery may have been a bit more forceful, the fans a bit louder; maybe more voters tuned in thanks to the media hype machine.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows her unfavorable rating at an all-time personal worst – 56% vs. 41% favorable. Mostly what he does is fear.

“We are looking forward to seeing what results his visit will have”, said Marcos Metta, president of the Alianza de Monte Sinai, a Mexico City Jewish organization, which has no official position on Trump. Silent at that moment, Pena Nieto later tweeted, “At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”. Most of the speech – which included such points as: Hillary Clinton would bring “total chaos and lawlessness”, refugees are a “trojan horse”, the USA will build an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern wall”, illegal immigrants are murdering people left and right – he chose “wrong”. “It’s completely inaccurate [to say] that people are pouring across the border and that the Mexican border is somehow not in control”. Looks like we didn’t have to wait even that long.

Furthermore, the tycoon reaffirmed that Mexico would pay for the wall within hours of meeting with the Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, despite Pena later insisting that he had told Trump his country would not finance the wall.

Critics, meanwhile, said Trump’s glossing over the fate of people who are peacefully living in the US without permission doesn’t make up for his overall approach.

In the end, the speech was not about immigration, or really about anything for that matter. Like every speech he gives, Trump’s speech was about Trump.