Just hours after meeting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Donald Trump’s much-anticipated speech on immigration was delivered last night. From Phoenix, Arizona, Trump squashed any expectations of softening his tone with his immigration policies.
"Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation, that is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don’t have a country,” Trump told the crowd on Wednesday. "As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities. But unlike this administration, no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement.” If he becomes president, he has promised to deport millions of people in his "first hour" of office.
With regards to building a wall across the border, he added, "On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall," he continued. He also mentioned including plans for increased border patrol, sensor technology and 24-hour aerial surveillance.
"We will build a great wall along the Southern border," he said, "and Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet but they're going to pay for it."
The Mexican president was not too thrilled with his speech, even though both showed an act of diplomacy hours earlier in Mexico, leading to the compadres calling each other a “friend.”
“His policy stances could represent a huge threat to Mexico, and I am not prepared to keep my arms crossed and do nothing," Nieto said in a television interview. “That risk, that threat, must be confronted. I told him that is not the way to build a mutually beneficial relationship for both nations."
Just when we thought Trump's immigration policies were softening...not happening. Wednesday’s speech only proved that Trump is confident in his immigration message that he has been conveying throughout his entire campaign.
He continued his speech by bashing President Obama and Hillary Clinton as promoting "deadly non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets."
"Clinton’s plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before," he said. "In effect, she would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office — and you see what bad judgment she has.”
Clinton's response:
Trump just failed his first foreign test. Diplomacy isn't as easy as it looks. -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 1, 2016
See Wednesday night's full speech below:
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