Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro Innaritu has slammed Mexican President Pena Nieto for inviting Donald Trump to visit the country.
In an opinion piece for El Pais, the Mexican-born director said that inviting the Republican presidential nominee, who visited the country on Wednesday, was "a betrayal," reported Entertainment Weekly.
"It endorses and validates someone who has insulted us, spat on us, and threatened us for more than a year before the entire world. It shows a lack of dignity that strengthens a hateful political campaign against us, against half of humanity and against the most vulnerable minorities on the planet.
"It lacks dignity and in turn strengthens a political campaign of hatred toward us, toward half of humanity, and toward the most vulnerable minorities on the planet. It jeopardizes the future and the lives of 16 million Mexicans," the "Birdman" helmer wrote.
Trump received backlash last summer for calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" and criminals in his speech announcing he was running for president.
"The US has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists," he said.
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