Posted on 01/10/2017 8:33:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) - Mexico’s new Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said on Tuesday (Jan 10) there is no way his country will pay for the wall that US President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to build on the United States’ southern border to keep out illegal immigrants.
“There’s no way that could happen,” Videgaray said on Mexican television a few days after his appointment. “There are no circumstances...not even the best possible trade deal, investments, support which would justify taking a step that would violate the dignity of Mexicans to such an extent.”
The wall has been a bone of contention between Trump and Mexico since the businessman launched his presidential campaign in June 2015, accusing Mexico of sending rapists and drug dealers across the border into the United States.
Trump said on Friday that Mexico would repay the United States for the wall, a day after news emerged that the New Yorker’s transition team was exploring getting the Republican-led Congress to vote to approve the funding....
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Hey Mexico, what is the difference between Mexico and the US?
Our entire population doesn’t want to live in Mexico (well except the rich white oligarchs anyway)
The US needs a way to detect tunnels. Can ground penetrating radar do that?
The wall will be built. USA will have more money, Mexico will have less.
Yes. That’s how the ROK and US Armies found the North Korean tunnels under the DMZ.
From Google: Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysical method that uses radar pulses to image the subsurface. This nondestructive method uses electromagnetic radiation in the microwave band (UHF/VHF frequencies) of the radio spectrum, and detects the reflected signals from subsurface structures. GPR can have applications in a variety of media, including rock, soil, ice, fresh water, pavements and structures. In the right conditions, practitioners can use GPR to detect subsurface objects, changes in material properties, and voids and cracks.
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I BET someone will invent a tunnel-detector VERY soon.
Then, maybe they smugglers will use ocean vessels.
The kicker is to shut down the American DEMAND for drugs. But, knowing my own fellow Americans, that will never happen. Americans apparently NEED drugs to get through life.
They REALLY need Jesus, but they won't do that either. That requires self-sacrificing love. Drug users love only themselves.
IMO, they should do something up here.
Lots of unguarded forests, etc.
Back on topic.. Mexico will pay, one way or another.
Excellent question. That needs to be dealt with.
Mexico will then have to deal with its own problems.
Paying for the wall should be just the beginning. Mexico should pay for decades of the US tax payer providing education, medicine, and incarceration for millions of Mexican nationals illegally in the USA.
NINE DAYS!!
That’s pretty ####ing smart.
Is there a way to get around it or would a Federal surcharge have to be followed by everyone who does transfers?
GREAT point.
That great. /s
Hit em with a surchage, like TigerClaws said
Wow! Great to know.
Love your tagline...Was it the Japanese emperor who said that?
In any case, the 2nd Amendment saved us from being invaded in WWII.
i hope Trump quickly thwarts any ways illegals or visa over stayers or anchor babies collect any sorts of monies from the USofA that would be a huge help in paying for the wall
Sure they will pay when the USA requires a percentage of every dollar in “remittances” wired to Mexico and Central America to be collected as taxes for the wall. The senders will also have to provide contact information to wire funds which shall be reported to the government.
Not the emperor, the chief admiral of their navy.
“I read recently that 25% of the Mexican GDP are Mexicans sending back cash there.”
Mexico’s GDP is $1.26 trillion.
I have seen nothing to indicate that Mexicans in the US are sending $315 billion back to Mexico.
Which came first, the addict or the pusher?
charge $25 for every money order, check and bank transfer going to Mexico. Reduce foreign aid. Keep this in place after the wall is paid for and then use it in the ICE budget for electronics, drones, copters and additional agents.
Trumps visit in August was “a public relations disaster for President Enrique Pena Nieto.” Big time. Mexico is a gangster country where wealthy families prevent their children from kidnap by leaving the country. Build the wall next month, please.
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