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What Donald Trump Has Said About Mexico and Vice Versa:
Mexico
While formally announcing his presidential bid on June 16, 2015, Trump said Mexico was sending people bringing crime and "rapists" across the border into the United States.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Trump then defended those comments in a statement on July 6, 2015. "The Mexican government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc. This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a five-time deported Mexican with a long criminal record who was forced back into the United States because they didn't want him in Mexico. This is merely one of thousands of similar incidents throughout the United States."
During the first prime-time Republican presidential candidates' debate of this cycle, on Aug. 6, 2015, Trump told Fox News' Chris Wallace that the Mexican government was intentionally sendingundocumented criminals. "Our leaders are stupid, our politicians are stupid, and the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning, and they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them, they don't want to take care of them," Trump said.
Trump has repeatedly questioned whether federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel could be impartial in presiding over two lawsuits against Trump University. Trump has said Curiel's Mexican heritage makes him biased. Curiel was born in Indiana to Mexican-American parents.
"I think the judge has been extremely hostile to me. I think it has to do with, perhaps, the fact that I'm very, very strong on the border. Very, very strong on the border. And he has been extremely hostile to me," Trump said in an interview with Wallace on Fox News on Feb. 28. "Now, he is Hispanic, I believe."
Trump blasted Curiel again during a rally in San Diego on May 27, saying, "I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He's a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel, and he is not doing the right thing … So what happens is the judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great. I think that's fine."
Trump walked back his remarks on Curiel in a June 7 statement that read, "It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage. I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent. The American justice system relies on fair and impartial judges. All judges should be held to that standard. I do not feel that one's heritage makes them incapable of being impartial, but, based on the rulings that I have received in the Trump University civil case, I feel justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial."
Trump has engaged in a contentious back-and-forth with Mexico's former President Vicente Fox, who has been critical of the real estate mogul and his scheduled trip to Mexico.
