In a speech Thursday afternoon, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto tore into President Donald Trump over his comments about immigration and the southern border.
Peña Nieto told Trump that if he is unhappy with immigration trends in the United States, he should take the issue up with Congress, and not lash out at Mexico.
“President Trump: If you wish to reach agreements with Mexico, we stand ready, as we have proved until now, always willing to engage in a dialogue, acting in earnestness, in good faith and in a constructive spirit,” Peña Nieto said, according to the Washington Post. “If your recent statements are the result of frustration due to domestic policy issues, [due] to your laws or to your Congress, it is to them that you should turn to, not to Mexicans.”
“We will not allow negative rhetoric to define our actions. We will act only in the best interest of Mexicans,” he added.
Trump paid particular attention to immigration and the southern border this week, obsessing over a caravan of Central American immigrants traveling north to the U.S. The caravan will end in Mexico, but some will head to the U.S. seeking asylum. The coverage of the caravan prompted Trump to fire off several angry tweets earlier in the week and order the National Guard to the southern border to support Border Patrol officers there.
On Thursday, Trump escalated his rhetoric and claimed that women in the caravan have been “raped at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”
I would think that the president would be the person to run down to the border of Mexico to defend it. After all, wasn’t he going to run into the high school in Parkland Florida, unarmed to boot?
Drumpf will deport all the undocumented immigrants except those working at his golf courses and hotels.
“If your recent statements are the result of frustration due to domestic policy issues, [due] to your laws or to your Congress, it is to them that you should turn to, not to Mexicans.”
TAKE THAT BITCH!
His base, and perhaps him as well, would happily deport all brown people–undocumented or not.
Nice. Keep it up. The world is watching and even though there are plenty of scum suckers in the USofA, the rest of the world can see how true leaders ‘work’ (Mexico and Canada). Donnie will continue to lie and whine and snivel and those of us NOT venal will wait for the day he is out.