Trump To Meet Mexican President
MEP: US Republican candidate Donald Trump will travel to Mexico for a meeting with the country’s president, hours before he details measures against illegal immigration in a speech.
The Republican presidential nominee tweeted Tuesday evening that he had accepted the Mexican leader’s invitation.
“I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow,” Trump said on Twitter on Tuesday.
The business mogul, who has taken a hardline stance on immigration, is scheduled to deliver a speech Wednesday night in Phoenix, in which he will clarify his position on the issue.
Mr Trump has routinely assailed Mexican immigrants who illegally cross the border into the United States, and has made hardline immigration policies, including calls for deportations, a key plank of his campaign.
He has also pledged to build a border wall — paid for by Mexico — and to establish a “border force” to deport 11 million illegal immigrants, if elected US president on November 8.
Pena Nieto and other Mexican officials have, however, dismissed the proposal as ludicrous, with the Mexican president likening Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
“There is no way that Mexico can pay [for] a wall like that,” Pena Nieto said in an interview with CNN in July, adding that he opposed Trump’s frequent characterization of illegal immigrants from Mexico as rapists and killers.
