Ex-Mexican president insists wall will have to be paid by the American taxpayer

Source: McClatchy News


BY KATIE GLUECK
kglueck@mcclatchydc.com
January 25, 2018 06:34 PM
Updated 2 hours 3 minutes ago

NEW YORK

Donald Trump may have just softened his approach to undocumented immigrants brought to America as kids — but he shouldn’t be trusted for a moment, charged former Mexican President Vicente Fox during an interview Thursday with McClatchy.

“He has no credibility,” the former head of state swiped. “Nobody knows what he is thinking.”

The 23-minute interview came a day after Trump told reporters he was open to creating a path to citizenship for “Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Trump, whose campaign for president was rooted in nationalist, hardline immigration rhetoric, has also recently deemphasized his longtime promise that Mexico would pay for a U.S.-built border wall. Instead, while he insists a wall will be built, his administration is looking to Congress for funds, with the eventual goal, Trump has said, of recouping the money, in indirect ways, from Mexico.

To that, the outspoken and profanity-prone Fox replied, “If that wall is to be constructed, it will have to be paid by the American taxpayer.”

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