GOP's Tough Talk on Border Could be Helping U.S.-Mexico Relations, Experts Say Jan-Albert Hootsen - Fox News Latino
go to original May 3, 2016

US President Barack Obama meets with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Donald Trump hasn't even clinched the presidential nomination yet, but he's already shaping U.S. and even Mexican foreign policy.

Fueled by the Republican front-runner's comments about migration and the southern neighbor, the governments of the United States and especially Mexico have, in recent months, stepped up their efforts to improve their relationship.

President Obama has more than once dismissed the candidate’s calls for a border wall, sometimes mockingly and other times visibly concerned.

During a visit to Mexico for economic talks earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden described Trump’s rhetoric “dangerous, damaging and incredibly ill-advised.”

"I almost feel obliged to apologize for some of what my political colleagues said," Biden said alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. "It's a heated campaign season and I just want you to know, Mr. President, that the most heated rhetoric you've heard from competitors for the nomination for president is not who we are as the American people."

Meanwhile, high-profile visits of Mexican officials to Washington D.C. have been more frequent in recent months, in what appears to be a charm offensive.

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