Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said Wednesday that Donald Trump would not waffle on his tough immigration stance, either during a meeting with Mexico’s president or at a speech on the contentious topic in the evening.

The GOP presidential nominee’s recent comments suggesting a “softening” of his hard-line immigration stance alarmed some supporters. But Pence said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that while Trump will look for shared areas of cooperation when he meets with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, he also will “make it very clear to them about things we are no longer going to tolerate in this country.”

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LifeZette was the first media outlet to report details of Trump’s scheduled meeting with Peña Nieto.

“I couldn’t be more pleased with Donald Trump’s decision to exercise what is nothing short of presidential leadership,” Pence said. “In the midst of a deluge, about to give a historic speech on ending illegal immigration, he’s wheels-up to Mexico to start a relationship with our neighbor to the south.”

Paraphrasing Ronald Reagan, Pence said a nation without borders is not a nation. He said Trump would stick to that theme in his immigration speech in Arizona.

“What you’re going to hear from Donald Trump today are the same principles and same policies that he used when he put illegal immigration, ending illegal immigration, at the center of the debate in the Republican primaries,” he said. “We’re going to build a wall. We’re going to have secure borders.”

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Pence said Trump would push to make it mandatory for businesses to use the E-Verify system to ensure employees are legal residents and would fight for an end to so-called “sanctuary cities” that fail to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

“We’re going to get people out of this country in short order who represent a threat to our families and our communities,” he said. “But it’s all going to be on that foundation that rejects amnesty and says there’s no path to citizenship, no path to legalization unless people are out of the country.”

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Pence reiterated several options under discussion for fulfilling Trump’s pledge to make Mexico pay for the wall. One possibility is cutting of money sent home by Mexican immigrants in the United States unless the Mexican government makes a onetime contribution toward the barrier. Remittances last year made up Mexico’s largest source of revenue, topping even tourism and oil sales.

Another option would be for Trump, as “negotiator in chief,” to make a border payment part of a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Pence said.

“One way or the other, we’re going to find a way for Mexico to pay for it,” he said. “We’ve paid a dear price because of illegal immigration in this country,” he added. “There’s no question that it has cost jobs for working Americans.”