There had been talk in recent days that the New York businessman might be softening his stance on immigration, but that wasn’t evident Tuesday.
“We are going to build a wall,” Trump declared, then asked the crowd, “Who’s going to pay for it?”
“Mexico!” the audience shouted, reprising a well-used line by Trump — and one that has been rejected by Mexican presidents past and present.
The real-estate developer also decried what he claimed was exploding crime in the United States — another claim that many experts dispute, saying that overall trends show crime has been dropping for decades.
And he reprised his argument that trade agreements and other forms of international engagement are responsible for a perceived economic malaise at home. As he has in the past, Trump used the phrase “America first,” an expression first used by an anti-Semitic organization that tried to keep the United States from entering World War II.
“Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo,” Trump said. “It’s going to be America first from now on.”Read more
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