Donald Trump to Meet With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto ahead of a major speech on immigration on Wednesday.

The Washington Post first reported that Peña Nieto had extended invitations to both Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, to travel to Mexico City for a meeting. Trump and the Mexican leader later confirmed the meeting on Twitter.

At the 6 minute point of this video clip starts commentary on the Mexico visit.

In March, Peña Nieto said in an interview with the Mexican newspaper Excelsior that there was “no scenario” under which Mexico would pay for Trump’s wall.

And he went on from there: “There have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of this strident rhetoric have only led to very ominous situations in the history of humanity.

“That’s how Mussolini got in. That’s how Hitler got in. They took advantage of a situation, a problem, perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.

“And I think what [they] put forward ended up at what we know today from history — in global conflagration. We don’t want that happening anywhere in the world,” he said.

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican who has been critical of Trump, said of the visit “it’s a good idea” — if only to show Trump that immigration issues are more complicated than “platitudes” about building a wall.

“I hope when he sits down with the Mexican president, that the Mexican president will tell him how important NAFTA is for both of our countries, to tell him how those crossing the border aren’t Mexico’s worst. That they aren’t rapists. To tell him this is a complicated issue,” Flake said.

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