President Calderon: Mexico won't pay 'a single cent' for Trump's 'stupid wall'

American Thinker ^ | 02/09/2016 | Rick Moran

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Former Mexican president Felipe Calderón harshly criticized the notion that Mexico would pay anything for Donald Trump's planned wall on our southern border.

The HIll:

“Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall!” Calderón told CNBC on Saturday. “And it’s going to be completely useless.” 

Calderón, who served as president from 2006 to 2012, said Trump is “not [a] very well-informed man.” 

“The first loser of such a policy would be the United States,” he added. “If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade [or] for people is going to provide prosperity to the United State, he is completely crazy.” 

This is not the first time Mexico has said it would not help pay for the Republican presidential contender's proposed wall.

Trump has said that he will seize cash remittances that illegal aliens send back to Mexico to pay for the wall.  That won't work, either:

Would that even be possible? A Trump administration could erect a lot of legal, regulatory, and logistical obstacles to transferring money from the U.S. to Mexico. But those moves would enrage the banks and financial institutions that make money off the transfers, and probably spur interest in transfer methods that escape the attention and grasp of law enforcement.

Earlier this year, Mexico’s central bank released data indicating Mexicans abroad sent home $23.6 billion in 2014, almost all of it from the United States. Payments from workers abroad make up just 2 percent of Mexican GDP, but they can play a much bigger role in particular local economies. One study concluded that “the poorest rural areas” of the country derive 19.5 percent of their income from remittances. Whatever their economic impact, the payments are widespread:

[CarolinaPeach]

Pay now, or pay later, but eventually they will pay. We could get the ball rolling by using any illegals that are currently in prison in the US as construction labor. It’s certainly no worse than using US citizens in prison to do roadside trash pick up or as farm labor. Frankly, I’d much prefer people in prison have to do physical labor instead of sitting around, playing ball, watching cable, lifting weights, working on degrees, and devising more creative ways to tattoo themselves while running illegal businesses from inside the prison.

[SaraJohnson]

Lots of ways to make Mexico pay for the wall. They have served as guides for illegals all over the world to pass through their nation and invade us. They think it’s cute to screw us.

[Carthego delenda est]

“Unless they’re just givng them a “through ticket” to the US. They might let them come through long enough for that.”

Just a few days ago someone posted an article detailing how Mexico was doing just that, giving Central Americans a 20 day visa specifically for them to find their way to the U.S. border.

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Ef mescins

[Little Ray]

I think you should be able to hang on to every penny - support the Fair Tax!