Donald Trump Slammed for Border Comments Against Mexican Migrants! Presidential Candidate Stands by Statement

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is under fire for his statement against Mexican migrants in the U.S.

Trump, who announced his candidacy on Tuesday, said in his hour-long speech that Mexico was "not sending its brightest minds to the U.S., instead it was sending drugs, crime, and rapists across the border illegally," Fox News Latino wrote.

A day after his candidacy announcement, the TV personality stood by his controversial statement and said in Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" that he doesn't care whether the remarks cost him "votes or not" because he is telling "the truth," the news outlet added.

Mexico's Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said at an antidiscrimination event in the Mexican capital that Trump's comments are "prejudiced" and "absurd," adding that the business magnate was "clearly ignorant" of the Mexican migrants' contributions to the U.S.' economy, Reuters reported.

"I think what (Trump) did is generate controversy, but not a plan," Osorio Chong continued, as quoted by Reuters.

According to Fox News Latino, Trump also discussed several controversial issues during his candidacy speech, but his inflammatory comments directed to the Mexican government and its citizens were highlighted.

In his speech, the 69-year-old businessman said that he will build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. as a way to punish the former.

"Nobody can build a fence like me," Trump insisted, as quoted by the news outlet. "I would build a wall like nobody can build a wall. And nobody comes in illegally anymore...I build great buildings all over the world. I would have Mexico pay for it. Believe me. They will pay for it because they have really ripped this country off."

Aside from the Mexican government, Trump also received criticisms from the U.S. groups supporting Latino rights.

"Trump is a businessman, not politician," Arturo Carmona, Latino-rights group Presente's executive director, said in an e-mail sent to Fox News Latino. "His campaign is an example of someone using politics to elevate his own image and make a profit, and it's no secret that Donald Trump will do almost anything to plaster his name somewhere and make a buck."

Other presidential candidates, such as Senator Marco Rubio and former Governor Jeb Bush, expressed their plans to pave a way for the citizenship legalization of undocumented immigrants, Fox News Latino added. The two also boasted of their projects benefiting Hispanics while in office.

Aside from the Mexican controversy, Trump's presidential announcement on Tuesday was also accused as hiring actors for $50 to cheer for him, wear t-shirts, and carry signs during the event. According to The Hollywood Reporter, New York-based Extra Mile Casting sent an e-mail last Friday to its list of clients seeking extras for the announcement.

Extra Mile Casting's e-mail also indicated that they are in partnership with Gotham Government Relations and Communications, a political consulting group that Trump worked with in the past, The Hollywood Reporter noted.