Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable with Hispanic Pastors | Eastern North Carolina Now

    One of the things that I see and resonates today is the fact that there's a great misconception. The media gives a major misconception of the Hispanic community and the support that we have for you. I can emphatically say your values stand aligned to the Hispanic community. And that is - what you have seen in the polls is that they have seen, no matter what the media says, they see that your actions speak aligned to their heart's desire.

    And so they've got it all wrong. They're making my task more interesting, yet the message is getting to our Hispanic community -

    THE PRESIDENT: I think it is.

    MS. AGUIRRE: - from truck drivers in Los Angeles. You've got the Villareal names following you. The Gonzaleses. You've got Hispanics that truly supporting. And this reality that we've had - back to President Calderon in Mexico dealing with the human trafficking - was appalling; the catastrophes that we saw. We worked hand in hand and we were never able to achieve what you've already brought to the table. For that, the Hispanic community and America says thank you.

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you, Lourdes. And I will say we've made a lot of progress. And when we're given the right ingredients - and we need that; we need the wall and we need other things; we need other forms of technology - you'll see numbers that are even better. We've done a lot of work - a lot of great work.


    And I will say, the numbers will get even better once we have the right things, including technology, by the way. But if we don't have that wall, and if we don't have a very powerful barrier, it's all just a waste of time. It can't work. Can't work. So we'll get it.

    Thank you all very much. I appreciate it.

    Q (Inaudible) get a deal?

    THE PRESIDENT: I think we have a chance, yeah. I think we have a good chance. We're going to work with the Democrats. We're going to see. And if we can't do that, then we'll do - obviously we're going to do the emergency, because that's what it is. It's a national emergency.

    These are Hispanic pastors and reverends and ministers, and they understand better than anybody, it's an emergency. It's a humanitarian emergency. And we are going to take care of our border. It's going to be done. And crime is going to go down throughout our whole country, not just at the border. The border is the least of it. It's what comes in through the border and permeates throughout the whole country. And you're going to see drugs drop way down, because a big percentage come in through the border. You will see drugs way down. You're going to see crime go way down. So we're going to do it, and we're doing well. And I really appreciate you being here. Thank you.

    Thank you all very much.

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