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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Here in San Diego we’ve got double walls and triple walls in some places, stadium lighting on the border, drone flights and motion detectors plus constant Border Patrol human surveillance. But we’ve also got 70 miles of oceanfront coastline with none of that. The cartels build tunnels under the walls and fly their own drones over it.
You can surf or ocean swim into this country.
there are 1,000’s of ways we could make Mexico pay for it from Trade Tarriffs to taxes on money being wired back to Mexico from illegals here, ect.
he can...
You mean Congress and the President can.
Have Slim pay for it.
Shut down all money transfers to that cesspool and they’ll change their tune.
Stop the bennies the illegals here receive, that’ll more then pay for it.
“No, he can’t. CONGRESS can, but he has to persuade them to do so”
El wrongo! Obama gave us the presidential dictatorship, making whole law on his own. Guess what, now we can too.
I mean, if congress refuses to act, I guess Trump will be forced to! lol
This is gonna be fun.
If he really wants to get the nomination he would talk about border patrol rounding up all of the Illegal Aliens(F U Jerry Brown)and putting them to work on building the wall.
Add a fee to wire transfers to Mexico.
na, he could just do what Obama always does, just issue a executive order.
I know. This is classic Trump. First he baits his trap and then he waits to see who walks in. While the candidates fiddle around with their pretty position papers on policy Trump is now engaging the Mexican government just like he engaged Megyn Kelly.
This is going to be absolutely delicious. As you said it’s your move Trump.
Simply delicious.
There are a thousand ways to get Mexico to pay for the wall. Obviously it may not be a check in the mail from Mexico, but it will be a thousand different ways we can charge fees on trades with Mexico. Stopping flow of unskilled and criminal Mexicans alone will save us so much money, it will pay for the wall.
Exactly. There are many ways to make them pay for it. What is amazing is how Trump suckers people into his web. Today it’s Mexico. Let’s not forget Megyn and he has also extended an invitation to Black Lives Matter. Simply delicious.
That should bring in several million right there.
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