{"id":16884,"date":"2016-09-01T01:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T01:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16884"},"modified":"2016-09-01T01:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T01:49:13","slug":"trump-chokes-on-confronting-mexico-on-wall-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16884","title":{"rendered":"Trump chokes on confronting Mexico on wall payment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/immigrant-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16682\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/immigrant-trump-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"immigrant trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/immigrant-trump-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/immigrant-trump-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/immigrant-trump-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/immigrant-trump.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is in the middle of a &#8220;policy speech&#8221; on immigration as I write this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I want to focus for a moment on the Republican presidential nominee&#8217;s quick trip to Mexico City, where he met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t mention something that&#8217;s been a hallmark of his presidential campaign: getting Mexico to pay for building that &#8220;beautiful wall&#8221; across our southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s initial &#8212; and signature &#8212; campaign pledge was to stop illegal immigrants. He vowed to build that wall. He then vowed in the next breath that Mexico would pay for it. &#8220;I&#8217;ll make Mexico pay for the wall,&#8221; he told his cheering supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Well,\u00a0he had President Pena Nieto in the room today. He didn&#8217;t bring up Mexico&#8217;s tab. How come?<\/p>\n<p>Pena Nieto later restated his view that Mexico isn&#8217;t going to pay for the wall.<\/p>\n<p>What did Trump accomplish by accepting this invitation to visit President Pena Nieto? I&#8217;m trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>No word of an apology for the insults Trump has hurled at the Mexican government for suggesting that &#8220;Mexico is sending&#8221; career criminals into the United States. Then again, Trump doesn&#8217;t apologize for anything.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s hear what Trump has to say about how &#8220;I alone&#8221; will fix the nation&#8217;s immigration policy.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump is in the middle of a &#8220;policy speech&#8221; on immigration as I write this blog. I want to focus for a moment on the Republican presidential nominee&#8217;s quick trip to Mexico City, where he met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. He didn&#8217;t mention something that&#8217;s been a hallmark of his presidential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump chokes on confronting Mexico on wall payment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[1424,2240,2245],"class_list":["post-16884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16885,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16884\/revisions\/16885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}