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Mexican Diplomat: Trump Can Get Mexico To Pay For The Wall
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Date: September 24, 2016 01:12AM
Bolstering Donald Trump's pledge to build a wall and deport criminal illegals, a former Mexican foreign secretary said that there are "many ways" the Republican presidential candidate, if elected, can get Mexico to pay for the wall and deport four million immigrants.
"The wall is a perfectly feasible promise to fulfill," said Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs from 2000 to 2003.
Dismissing a Mexican Senate move to block federal payments to a Trump administration for the wall as "silly," Castañeda offered up several ways for Trump to find the money.
"If he really wants Mexicans to pay for the wall, he has many ways of getting many Mexicans to pay for the wall, increasing the fee for visas...increasing the toll on the bridges..taxing remittances," he said at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
What's more, he said that the wall is an extension of programs first put into place by former President Bill Clinton and extended under former President George W. Bush and President Obama.
"Actually today you have somewhere like 40 percent of the 1,700 mile wall that is already there. So why can't Trump do what he has promised to do if his three predecessors did a lot of it without wanting to?" he said.
Ditto on deportations. Noting that Obama has been dubbed the "Deporter-in-Chief" for removing two million, Castañeda said doubling that to four million shouldn't be a problem.
"He certainly could deport twice as many as Obama, why not, why not? Everybody knows where they it's very easy to find them. It's expensive, but it's not outrageously expensive and you could pressure a bunch of people including my country into paying for part of it and taking them back," said the diplomat who is a New York University professor.
"If Obama was able to deport a little more than two million...why can't Trump deport four million if he wants to?" he added.
"The wall is a perfectly feasible promise to fulfill," said Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs from 2000 to 2003.
Dismissing a Mexican Senate move to block federal payments to a Trump administration for the wall as "silly," Castañeda offered up several ways for Trump to find the money.
"If he really wants Mexicans to pay for the wall, he has many ways of getting many Mexicans to pay for the wall, increasing the fee for visas...increasing the toll on the bridges..taxing remittances," he said at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
What's more, he said that the wall is an extension of programs first put into place by former President Bill Clinton and extended under former President George W. Bush and President Obama.
"Actually today you have somewhere like 40 percent of the 1,700 mile wall that is already there. So why can't Trump do what he has promised to do if his three predecessors did a lot of it without wanting to?" he said.
Ditto on deportations. Noting that Obama has been dubbed the "Deporter-in-Chief" for removing two million, Castañeda said doubling that to four million shouldn't be a problem.
"He certainly could deport twice as many as Obama, why not, why not? Everybody knows where they it's very easy to find them. It's expensive, but it's not outrageously expensive and you could pressure a bunch of people including my country into paying for part of it and taking them back," said the diplomat who is a New York University professor.
"If Obama was able to deport a little more than two million...why can't Trump deport four million if he wants to?" he added.