Posted on 08/13/2015 1:20:00 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
Turns out the Mexican government isn't so keen on Donald Trump's assertion that he will make Mexico pay for a wall along America's southern border.
"Of course it's false," a spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said of Trump's claim in a Bloomberg interview published Wednesday. "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the After firestorm over his comments about illegal immigrants, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump travels to the U.S.-Mexico border. CBS News C... Trump, a billionaire businessman who's seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has said repeatedly that the U.S. must build a wall to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
But America won't pay for this wall, according to Trump -Mexico will.
"We're gonna get the wall built...and Mexico's gonna pay for the wall," Trump said Tuesday at a news conference. "And they're gonna be happy about it...because the cost of the wall is peanuts compared to the kind of money they're making. Mexico is becoming the new China."
Trump, who holds a big lead in early polls of the Republican primary field, has made immigration one of the chief focuses of his campaign, inciting controversy with his inflammatory remarks on the subject.
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He can impose a 50% tax on remittances. That’ll pay for it and, indirectly, Mexico will pay for it with the lost revenue.
There are ways of making Mexico do our bidding. It’s not like they can defend themselves very well, considering half their country is in the U.S.
It wouldn’t be an invoice for the wall but the new tariffs could be used to pay for it.
we’ll see....
.....Or at lease a quarter of the country is in the USA.
Yeah they will.
Heh heh heh.
That’s the ones we know about.
I’m sure there are a LOT more that are unaccounted for.
And I don’t believe Trump makes idle threats, so this should be good
If Mexico doesn’t want to pay, we can always get it by taxing wire remittances and putting the illegals who come here to work on it for a few months prior to deportation. They claim they come to America to work; building the wall can provide them work.
Mexico has the greatest defense in the world: being completely undesirable and not worth invading.
What a shock. In other news, the Soviet Union announced it will never tear down the Berlin Wall.
Hold back the $500 million the US sends Messico each year until the wall is paid for.
No remittances for you then! Lol.
Yeah they would either directly or indirectly Mexico would pay for it. It’s not all that hard to get Mexico to pay for it.
Heck, I’m sure that there must be some amount of “foreign aid” that is going to Mexico that has been budgeted by the Congress. Couldn’t they just withhold whatever the costs of a wall are from that, for however many years that it may take?
No, he can't. CONGRESS can, but he has to persuade them to do so, including enough Senate Dems to overcome the expected filibuster.
“..new tariffs could be used to pay for it.”
That’s what I think. He’s not going to send them a bill for $2 billion or whatever, but he’d siphon it out of them.
Time to dig up Black Jack Pershing and his strategy.
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