Trump proposals ‘a real threat’ for Mexico — Pena Nieto

During his speech in Phoenix Wednesday night, Trump indicated that he still plans to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants from the country, saying, “You can not obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country”.

“Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation”, said Trump during the Arizona rally.

“You can’t just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalised”. “Day one, my first hour in office, those people are gone”, Trump said. Trump is clearly just reacting to being called out by President Peña Nieto and the Hispanic advisers he betrayed.

“We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration”, Trump declared to a rowdy crowd in Phoenix.

The Hillary Clinton campaign can barely hide their happiness over Trump spinning his wheels on immigration.

“As a compassionate conservative, I am disappointed with the immigration speech”, the CEO of the Hispanic-owned computer consulting firm Greater Houston Partnership Massey Villarreal said to US -based Latino news press NBC Latino, adding that he was ready to leave Trump. In a newspaper article a day after the meeting, Pena Nieto said he made clear to Trump that “in Mexico, we feel offended and hurt by his pronouncements about Mexicans”.

Clinton has expressed support for a pathway to citizenship for most of America’s undocumented.

Trump’s tense worldwide trip to Mexico on Wednesday saw him navigate a political tightrope just 69 days before the election. And then, an immigration speech in Arizona, in which Trump doubled-down on hardline positions, including building a wall at the border. He said the simpler path would have been to do nothing, but he believed it necessary to stress to Trump the importance of the U.S. -Mexico relationship.

He acknowledged Mexicans’ “enormous indignation” over Trump’s presence in the country and repeated that he told him in person Mexico would in no way pay for the proposed border wall, according to the Associated Press.

Political analyst Bakari Sellers branded the speech “nationalism on steroids”. Trump hardened his immigration stance so much, even some of his most ardent Hispanic supporters are reconsidering.