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Mexico’s Foreign Minister Has Come To Accept That A Border Wall Is Coming
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Alex Pfeiffer
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10:01 PM 02/11/2017
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When then-candidate Donald Trump was proposing a border wall, then-Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu called it “impractical” and “wrong.” Ruiz Massieu is no longer Mexico’s foreign minister, and the new man in the role, Luis Videgaray, has come to accept Trump’s border wall.
“It is impossible to think of a 2,000-mile border being walled off and trade between our two countries stopped,” Ruiz Massieu said last February. “It is impractical, inefficient, wrong and, frankly, it is not an intelligent thing to do.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/11/mexicos-foreign-minister-has-come-to-accept-that-a-border-wall-is-coming/#ixzz4YU2CFRrY