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Eugene

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Thu Mar 3, 2016, 01:57 PM Mar 2016

Mexico says won't pay for Trump's 'terrible' border wall

Source: Reuters

Politics | Thu Mar 3, 2016 9:50am EST

Mexico says won't pay for Trump's 'terrible' border wall

MEXICO CITY

There is no way Mexico would fund Donald Trump's "terrible" plan to build a wall along its border with the United States if the Republican front-runner wins the U.S. presidential election, the Mexican finance minister said.

Trump, the New York billionaire developer and former reality television star, sparked outrage in Mexico when he vowed to force Latin America's second largest economy to pay for a wall along the southern U.S. border to stem the flow of illegal immigration and drugs.

In a televised interview late on Wednesday, Finance Minister Luis Videgaray categorically rejected the proposal.

"Under no circumstance will Mexico pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing," he said. "Building a wall between Mexico and the United States is a terrible idea. It is an idea based on ignorance and has no foundation in the reality of North American integration."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-mexico-idUSKCN0W51SK
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Mexico says won't pay for Trump's 'terrible' border wall (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2016 OP
Why should they? maveric Mar 2016 #1
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