Donald Trump meeting with Mexico's president Wednesday

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Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday night on Twitter that he will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto.

The meeting will take place just a few hours before he is scheduled to deliver a speech in Arizona about immigration, The Washington Post reports. On Twitter, Peña Nieto's office said he extended invitations to Trump and Hillary Clinton to discuss the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, and his meeting with Trump will be private. A campaign official said Trump will be joined by Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, an immigration hardliner, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Bloomberg reports.

Sources familiar with the discussions told The Post that Trump and his advisers came up with the plan over the weekend and that Trump, pushed by campaign chief executive Stephen Bannon, asked for an expedited meeting. The trip will take place between a fundraiser Wednesday morning in California and the speech in Phoenix at night. Early in the campaign, Trump famously said Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.