After testy call with Trump over border wall, Mexican president shelves plan to visit White House

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After testy call with Trump over border wall, Mexican president shelves plan to visit White House

By Philip Rucker, Joshua Partlow and Nick Miroff 

February 24 at 7:48 PM

Tentative plans for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to make his first visit to the White House to meet with President Trump were scuttled last week after a testy call between the two leaders ended in an impasse over Trump’s promised border wall, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.

Peña Nieto was eyeing an official trip to Washington this month or in March, but both countries agreed to call off the plan after Trump would not agree to publicly affirm Mexico’s position that it would not fund construction of a border wall that the Mexican people widely consider offensive, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a confidential conversation.

Speaking by phone on Tuesday, Peña Nieto and Trump devoted a considerable portion of their roughly 50 minute conversation to the wall, and neither man would compromise his position.


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[RoosGirl]

I guess Nieto ain't paying for that bleep wall either.

[Frank Cannon]

Fine with me. We have enough Mexicans here already.

[Fishrrman]

I'm not sure how Mr. Trump can coax Mexico into "paying for the wall".
But that's not necessary.
Instead get Mexicans to pay -- by taxing all foreign remittances.
13% ought to do it.