Following Donald Trump, the US President-elect's insistence that it's southern neighbor, Mexico will reimburse the US taxpayer for the estimated $14 b
Following Donald Trump, the US President-elect’s insistence that it’s southern neighbor, Mexico will reimburse the US taxpayer for the estimated $14 billion (£11 billion) border wall project, a former Mexican president, Vicente Fox has not only berated Trump on his promise to build a wall on the U.S./Mexico border, but he has categorically stated that Mexico will not pay for the wall.
In a series of tweets, the former Mexican leader who has long been a vocal critic of Trump, feuding with the businessman and slamming his proposals involving undocumented immigrants, said,
“Trump, when will you understand that I am not paying for that ‘fucken’ wall. Be clear with US tax payers. They will pay for it.”
“Trump may ask whoever he wants, but still neither myself nor Mexico are going to pay for his racist monument, another promise he can’t keep.”
Trump’s vow to build an impenetrable, concrete wall along the southern border was his signature campaign proposal.
“Build the wall!” supporters would chant at his rallies.
“Who’s going to pay for it?” Trump would ask them and they would respond: “Mexico!”
Trump often promised the wall would be built of hardened concrete, rebar and steel as tall as his venues’ ceilings, and would feature a ‘big, beautiful door’ to allow legal immigrants to enter.
Most experts viewed such promises as unrealistic and impractical, and Trump himself once said that the wall would not need to span the entire length of the border, thanks to natural barriers like rivers. Trump had earlier stated that the proposed wall will be built using U.S. taxpayer dollars, despite his campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for the project.
He would later concede that American taxpayers would foot the initial bill for the wall adding that the U.S. would only be putting up money for the ‘sake of speed’ and vowed Mexico would eventually pay it back. It however remains unclear how the Trump administration would compel Mexico to pay, as America’s southern neighbour has shown no intention of doing so.
