The Hill
By Rafael Bernal
February 25, 2016
Vice
President Biden on Thursday slammed Republican presidential candidates
for what he called "dangerous, damaging and incredibly ill-advised"
rhetoric on immigration.
"The
message that is coming out of the United States as a consequence of the
presidential campaign, about American attitudes toward Mexicans and
Mexico generally, the
entire hemisphere and our place in the world, is disturbing," Biden
said in Mexico City.
The
Vice president spoke to reporters during the inaugural ceremony of the
bilateral High Level Economic Dialogue conference. Four American and six
Mexican cabinet-level
officials were in attendance.
Several
GOP presidential candidates have drawn controversy for strong
statements on immigration and trade. Most notably, Donald Trump angered
many when he began his presidential
campaign calling Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists."
Biden
slammed "some of the rhetoric coming from some of the presidential
candidates on the other team," but added, "Here's what I'm here to tell
you. They do not, they
do not, they do not represent the view of the vast majority of the
American people."
The
American delegation in Mexico City includes Secretary of Commerce Penny
Pritzker and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. The Mexican
Cabinet's top economic officials
are in attendance, including Luis Videgaray, the powerful finance
secretary and ally to President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Also
in the American delegation is Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, nominated in
July by President Obama to fill the empty ambassadorship to Mexico.
Jacobson's nomination
has been blocked by Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) — also a GOP presidential
candidate — because of her role in rapprochement between the United
States and Cuba.
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