Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu on Why Mexico Won't Pay for a Border Wall Larisa Epatko - PBS NewsHour
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Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu says Mexico won’t pay for building a wall along the U.S. border, nor negotiate anything about it. (PBS NewsHour)

Mexico won’t pay for building a wall along the U.S. border, nor negotiate anything about it, said Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu.

Massieu told special correspondent Nick Schifrin in a report airing on the PBS NewsHour that “Mexico will never consider paying for a wall that puts barriers between our two countries.”

“We understand that in some territory the United States can do many things that we cannot even oppose or comment on,” she said. “But we will not pay for it, because it goes against everything we believe our two countries can do together, are doing together.”

One-third of the 2,000-mile U.S. southern border already has a fence or a wall. The two countries can work together on securing the border using technology and agency cooperation, said Massieu. But “we’re not going to be negotiating anything regarding the wall.”

She said the Mexican government is reaching out to local communities to address their concerns about a Trump administration, saying “there’s no change today of migration or deportation policies. We have to wait and see what the new government does after Jan. 20.”

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