Posted on 04/27/2017 9:10:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump's border wall may not be going anywhere right now and one of Mexico's leading candidates in the presidential elections told NBC News she wants to make sure the "useless" wall stays that way.
"It's a false solution to a false problem," Margarita Zavala said of the wall through a translator in a phone interview Wednesday. "The wall does not help in any way the relationship between the two countries. The wall is pulling us apart."
Zavala, a former member of Congress and ex-first lady (she is married to Felipe Calderon, a former president), is expected to be the nominee of one of Mexico's two main political parties, the center-right National Action Party (PAN), for the country's July 2018 presidential election. She has been referred to as the "Hillary Clinton of Mexico" in media reports.
"What Donald Trump has done is create an enemy. Mexicans have served as a convenient enemy to rally his supporters," Zavala said, dismissing his comments at the start of his campaign about Mexican rapists and murders as "hate speech."
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If it is useless, then why does Mexico have a militarised wall on its own southern border?
Bull$#!t. It helps our country a lot. We will save billions in welfare, healthcare and public safety costs.
The wall is pulling us apart
Wrong. The lack of a wall and the lack of border control is pulling us apart. How many of your citizens need to be killed before you get your act together ?
If it’s so “worthless” what are they getting all worked up over?
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