Mexico Shuts Down Trump's Fantasy About Them Paying For Border Wall

http://www.mediaite.com ^ | 8/13/2015 | Matt Wilstein

[conservativejoy]

Before he had even officially announced his run for the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump was talking up his plan to make Mexico pay to build a massive wall along its border with the United States.

“They will pay for it because they have really ripped this country off,” he said in an interview back in May. “They have really taken advantage of us both economically and at the border. They will pay for that fence.”

And his position has not changed in the months since. Just this week, speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump reiterated the claim, saying, “We’re not paying for it. You know how easy that is? They’ll probably just give us the money.”

“I watch politicians come on: ‘Can you imagine, Sean, he’s saying Mexico’s going to pay? They’ll never pay.’ And I’m saying, that’s like a hundred percent,” Trump added. “That’s not like 98 percent. Sean, it’s a hundred percent they’re [going to] pay. And if they don’t pay, we’ll charge ‘em a little tariff. It’ll be paid. But we need the wall.”

Well, now the Mexican government has spoken and their message is: Not so fast.

“Of course it’s false,” Eduardo Sanchez, a spokesperson for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto told Bloomberg in an interview last night. “It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who’s saying it.”

“Mexicans in the U.S. work with passion, they do their jobs well,” Sanchez added. “His comments reflect an enormous lack of knowledge of the reality in the U.S.”

Of course, this is not the first time the Mexican government has had to correct Trump. Following the candidate’s controversial comments about Mexican “rapists”, Mexico’s Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong called the claims “prejudiced and absurd” and said Trump “surely doesn’t know the contributions made by migrants from practically every nation in the world, who have supported the development of the United States.

[odawg]

That headline sort of goes along with what Trump has been saying about how Mexico is always calling the shots.

[MasterGunner01]

Build the fence in two parallel rows. Each row is 15 feet tall and topped with razor concertina wire. The fence goes 15 feet below ground to discourage tunneling. Fence rows are 100 feet apart of bare ground. This bare ground is mined with M14 “toe popper” and M18 “bounding Betty” anti-personnel mines. Both Mexican and American sides of border have red triangular signs with a white skull and cross bones nearing the inscription Danger! Mines. There will be a frontage road on the U.S. side of the border for USBP vehicles. The fence is under 24/7/365 video surveillance. Any Mexican stupid enough to try and cross two fences and an active mine field — good luck with that.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Thank God there’s a wide ocean to swim between here and China or they’d be coming here like maggots on stink...it's infuriating to hear the open-borders types trying to justify the sea of illegal immigrants coming here by saying they're just trying to improve their lives and should be welcomed - three-quarters of the world would improve their lives by coming here - five billion people would arrive tomorrow morning if we opened the borders and gave them free transportation - why should the relatively few who do get here be given preference over those who can't make it - it's not fair and just.....

I'll bet the open-borderers always lock their doors before leaving home, and would be among the first to call the police if some homeless guy were to wander in and start helping himself to their refrigerator....

[Mr. K]

Not exactly sure it’s THEIR CHOICE

[Colonel_Flagg]

Only liberals wish things into being. Trump’s insistence that Mexico will pay for a border fence is completely delusional.