Trump Heads to Mexico Before Immigration Speech.
CAMEROTA: Donald Trump making a surprise visit to Mexico today to meet with Mexico's president. Trump accepting the invitation following more than a year of harsh rhetoric against Mexico and its people. Joining us now is Rosario Marin. She's a Mexican immigrant who became U.S. treasurer under George W. Bush, the first U.S. treasurer ever to be born outside of the U.S. She is a lifelong Republican who recently announced she will vote for Hillary Clinton because she cannot condone Donald Trump. Ms. Marin, thank you so much for being here.</s>ROSARIO MARIN, FORMER U.S. TREASURER UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH: Alisyn, it's my pleasure.</s>CAMEROTA: What do you make of this invitation from the Mexican president to Donald Trump and Donald Trump accepting it?</s>MARIN: Well, it's very unusual. I've never heard of anything like that happening before. I understand the president of Mexico trying to soften the rhetoric that has taken place. But there is no mistake about this. There is universal condemnation from the people of Mexico to the rhetoric that he has employed from day one of his campaign, specifically against Mexicans.</s>CAMEROTA: But is that what you think the president of Mexico is doing? You think he's inviting Donald Trump to get Donald Trump to soften his rhetoric?</s>MARIN: I would want to believe that is the intention. You know, he is the head of state, unlike the candidate. Something has to happen, Alisyn, you know, this -- this is just unacceptable. He has taken rhetoric to levels that we have never seen before, against not just immigrants but specifically Mexico. What's unusual toe also is for him accepting it. It's one of two things will happen. He will either go out there and say, "I am really sorry, they're not really all rapists and murderers and criminals" and try to soften that, or he would go out there and say, "I want to tell him to start paying the wall." It's one of those two things. I don't know which one is going to appear, especially on the eve of the immigration, you know, speech that he's going to give in Arizona no less -- a state that has obviously been very colorful when it comes to immigration.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes, it will be very interesting to see how his visit with the president colors the immigration speech that Donald Trump gives later on today. Is there any chance that the topic of the wall doesn't come up?</s>MARIN: Oh, no, there isn't --</s>CAMEROTA: So they'll discuss it. What could -- I mean, since the president of Mexico has said there's no way that Mexico can or will pay for this wall, what will the outcome of this conversation be on that?</s>MARIN: I don't know. You know, one thing is for sure. I mean, what the little orange man wants us to do is to be talking about him all the time. That's what we're doing. So, his strategy of just getting media coverage 24/7 is working. I don't know whether advancing policies that make sense is in his strategy. Obviously, that is not the case. There is no way he can make Mexico pay for the wall, period. There is no mechanical way. There's no policy that he can cite. There are no laws he can implement to get Mexico to pay more that. So, that's just nonsense. But it riles his campaign.</s>CAMEROTA: And, Ms. Marin, when you say the little orange man, I assume that you're referring to Donald Trump. Why won't you use his name?</s>MARIN: I don't. Just thinking and talking about him makes my stomach ill. So I refuse to call him by his name.</s>CAMEROTA: You also wrote an op-ed for Univision in which you talked about this is bigger than Donald Trump. You blame the Republican Party for letting him get this far. Let me read a portion of this for our viewers. "The party left me and my community all alone again. It has had plenty of time to stand up for my community, but it has chosen not to do so. I have come to this devastatingly painful realization that my party doesn't want my vote nor that of my community. Evidently, it is not important or not as important as some other voting bloc." So, you feel that the Republican Party has shunted aside Hispanics?</s>MARIN: You know, painfully, I have to say that's just a reality. It just pains me, Alisyn, because I have worked for this party for specifically 22 years, but more so for 32 years I've been voting Republican, ever since I became a U.S. citizen. And to realize that they really don't care about the vote of the Hispanic community, it's just very painful, because otherwise, they would have done something. They would have said publicly, this is something that is completely and totally unacceptable from day one. They chose not to do that. It comes to the point that he's the nominee by insulting every single group imaginable out there. The party has just let him ride this. This has been just very painful, and I will not be part of that. I am from California. I was here when 187 happened. I have seen the devastation to the Republican Party in California, having that kind of rhetoric, alienating an increasingly important part of our voting groups, especially the Hispanic community. For the national party not to understand and realize that we are losing this voting bloc is just painful.</s>CAMEROTA: Rosario Marin, thank you so much for coming on NEW DAY and sharing your thoughts this morning.</s>MARIN: Thank you.</s>CAMEROTA: All right. We're following a lot of 's get right to it.</s>VICENTE FOX, FORMER PRESIDENT OF MEXICO: I'm not going to pay for that</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: This is going to be your victory. It's going to be your victory. It's going to be your victory.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Donald Trump heading south of the border today.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have to get rid of the criminals. You have to secure the border.</s>TRUMP: They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.