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Donald Trump has promised to impose a toll on cars entering Mexico from Mexico to force the country’s southern neighbor to pay for its much-talked-about border wall.
During a visit to Arizona, one of a number of states that are likely to be an election street, the president reiterated his oft-stated assertion that Mexico will pay for such a barrier.
“They will pay at the border, at the gate, passing cars, we will take a toll – or we can take a toll,” Mr Trump said during an event in Yuma, near the border.
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According to Bloomberg News, asked if he still believed Mexico would pay the bill, he added: “Mexico pays for the wall, yes.”
During his 2016 election campaign, and often since then, the president has indicated that Mexico will pay for a physical barrier along the southern border, which he claims will help curb migrants from Central America.
Mexico has always insisted that it will not pay for such a wall, and experts have questioned whether it would do anything to tackle immigration numbers. Many see it as something Mr. Trump can use to appeal to his supporters, many of whom support his hardline approach.
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Mr. Trump has claimed that hundreds of miles of walls have already been built. In truth, a report by the Washington Post suggested that the president next year probably could not point to more than 500 miles of barrier, and many of them will replace structures that already existed.
Speaking on his second day of campaigning to curtail the Democratic National Convention – by tradition, Republicans and Democrats have avoided holding events at each other once in four-year meetings – the president took the opportunity to attack Joe Biden.
“Biden’s plan is the most radical, extreme, reckless, dangerous and deadly immigration plan ever put forward by a major party candidate. It must be defeated. and it will be defeated on November 3, ”he said.
He also found time to praise himself, trusting himself to stop the caravans of migrants from Central America who saw hundreds of thousands of people on the roads.
‘The caravans are no longer coming up. We pay hundreds of millions of dollars [to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.] “When we caught a killer and we wanted to bring them back to one of those countries, they would not take them,” he said. “[Because of that,] we stopped paying. ”
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