Trump’s policies threat to Mexico, must be confronted: Mexico pres.
The Mexican president has described the policies of US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as potentially a “huge threat” to his nation that should be “confronted,” shortly after meeting with him in the Mexican capital.
Bombastic Trump, who has described Mexican refugees to the US as “murderers” and “rapists,” arrived in Mexico City earlier on Wednesday in an apparent attempt to partially mend ties. That objective, however, seems not to have been accomplished as an angry-looking Peña Nieto spoke after meeting with Trump of the need to confront the American real estate mogul.
“His (Trump’s) policy stances could represent a huge threat to Mexico, and I am not prepared to keep my arms crossed and do nothing,” President Enrique Peña Nieto said in a television interview late on Wednesday.
“That risk, that threat, must be confronted,” the Mexican president said.
Trump has notoriously said he would build a wall on the US-Mexico border to stop Mexicans from entering and insisted he would have Mexico pay for the wall, too.
Appearing next to Trump at a joint presser after their meeting earlier on Wednesday, Peña Nieto had struck a milder tone.
“What we saw was a respectful attitude and discourse from Donald Trump,” presidential spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said earlier, arguing that progress was made on the issue of trade after earlier threats posed by Trump to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Trump, too, seemed to have made a U-turn when he went back to the US to deliver a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday night.
He told a cheering crowd of supporters that he would build the so-called wall “100 percent” if he won the presidential elections and would deport anyone living illegally in the US. That would include millions of Mexicans currently living in the US.
Trump’s comments prompted a huge wave of criticism against the Mexican president over having hosted the American billionaire, whom Peña Nieto has previously likened to dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
“Instead of making him apologize, the government allowed (Trump) to complete the humiliation of the Mexicans,” wrote Ricardo Anaya, the leader of the center-right opposition National Action Party, on his Twitter page.
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