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                                 Mexican Standoff

Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump end their joint statement at Los Pinos, the presidential official
residence, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Trump is calling his surprise visit to Mexico City Wednesday a ‘great honor.’ The Republican presidential
nominee said after meeting with Pena Nieto that the pair had a substantive, direct and constructive exchange of ideas.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

 Venturing to Mexico, Trump Defends Right to Build Wall

S. PEOPLES                       of rapists and criminals,     deliver a highly anticipated   Trump said they didn’t          safety for all citizens is para-
C. SHERMAN                                                     speech in Arizona about il-    discuss who would pay           mount to both the United
Associated Press                 praised Mexicans Wednes-      legal immigration. That has    for a cost of construction      States and to Mexico.”
MEXICO CITY (AP) — On                                          been a defining issue of his   pegged in the billions.         Trump’s presence on
Mexican soil for the first time  day as “amazing people”       presidential campaign, but     “Having a secure border is      Wednesday, his first meet-
as the Republican presi-                                       also one on which he’s ap-     a sovereign right and mutu-     ing with a head of state
dential nominee, a firm but      following a closed-door       peared to waver in recent      ally beneficial,” Trump said,   abroad as a presidential
measured Donald Trump                                          days                           reading from prepared re-       candidate, sparked anger
defended the right of the        meeting at the official       With political risks high for  marks. “We recognize and        and protests across Mex-
United States to build a                                       both men, Trump stayed on      respect the right of any        ico’s capital city. Former
massive border wall along        residence of the country’s    script, declining to repeat    country to build a physi-       Mexican President Vicente
its southern flank, standing                                   his promise to force Mexico    cal barrier or wall on any      Fox bluntly told the celeb-
up for the centerpiece of        president, Enrique Pena       to pay for a wall along the    of its borders to stop the il-  rity businessman that, de-
his immigration plan in a                                      border between the two         legal movement of people,       spite Pena Nieto’s hospital-
country where he is widely       Nieto. Trump and the Mexi-    countries when pressed by      drugs and weapons. Co-          ity, he was not welcome.
despised.                                                      reporters.                     operation toward achiev-
Trump, who previously de-        can president, who has        While he and Pena Ni-          ing this shared objective —           Continued on Page 4
rided Mexico as a source                                       eto talked about the wall,     and it will be shared — of
                                 compared the New York

                                 billionaire to Adolf Hitler,

                                 addressed reporters from

                                 adjacent lecterns before a

                                 Mexican flag.

                                 The trip, 10 weeks before

                                 America’s      presidential

                                 Election Day, came just

                                 hours before Trump was to
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