That is NOT what he said in his campaign... Is his federal court going to hold it against him?
Through the mechanism of a broken border, the ruling upper class of Mexico has effectively been setting U.S. immigration policy all on its own.
The financial and cultural assault upon the U.S. taxpayers and middle class continues. NAFTA is a part of that scheme. Mexico has a $51 billion trade surplus with us, not including the billions in cross-border cash transfers from illegals here who send non-taxed cash to families back home via complicit U.S. banks.
Mexico is already getting so much from us including the societal safety valve of an open border, that it is absolute madness to be even "talking" with them about anything more.
Make no mistake. Mexico is an enemy of the state. Economically. Socially. Culturally. And criminally.
The U.S. needs to stop self-flagellating. There must be a declaration of war.
Give the enemy one chance to save face. Then, when the U.S. military has neutralized its cartels and corrupted national government, and the example has been set, illegal immigration as we know it will cease, and Mexico will be put back in the box where it belongs.
Perhaps with a non-criminal governance giving it a chance to live up to its potential, as a naturally resources-rich country, with a chance to raise the living standard of its own population, without resorting to hitching a ride on the backs of U.S. taxpayers to do so.
Look at Chile. It can be done.