At the same time that phony Mexican leaders insist Mexico won’t pay for the border fence between the United States and the biggest slum on earth, former Mexican official Jorge Castañeda who served from 2000 to 2003 as Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, says that Donald Trump can without a doubt can force Mexico to pay for the wall. Castaneda points out that Trump can raise visa fees and tolls on the bridges between Mexico and the United States. None of this needs congressional approval as the responsibility lies solely with the executive branch.
“[Trump] has many ways of getting many Mexicans to pay for the wall.”
“Well, you have net-zero if you consider President Obama’s 1.5 million Mexican deportees as voluntary returnees,” said Castañeda. “If you had not deported those million and a half . . . then you would have roughly a million and half more Mexicans here.”
Why do so many Mexicans want to come to the U.S.?
It’s a matter of wages, pure and simple. Mexicans make about $300 a month when they can come here and make $11-15 per hour. That’s a no brainer, said Castañeda.
It’s so reassuring to actually get some hard facts from a government official in D.C. It’s just too bad that this official was a Mexican government official, not one of our own.