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Mexican Finance Minister: Government will not pay for the Trump border wall
The government will ever use, "under any circumstances", public resources that originate in taxes Mexicans to pay for the border wall the US presidential candidate Donald Trump promises to build and pay Mexico, said Finance Minister Luis Videgaray.
"I say emphatically: there is no scenario in which Mexico would pay for that wall," he said Videgaray.
In addition, the minister added, the barrier "is a bad idea, it's an absurd idea that is based on ignorance and has no basis in reality the integration of North America."
He said that for more than five years migration between Mexico and the United States has a negative balance the country's north.
"In other words, there are more Americans coming to Mexico that Mexicans go to the United States," he explained.
"And every day he cross between Mexico and the United States legally more than one million people, more than 350,000 vehicles. We trade for more than a million dollars every minute," he said.
Videgaray noted that "Mexico is a key ally for the United States and the United States is a key ally for the competitiveness of the Mexican economy."
