Mexico Braces Itself for 'America First' Presidency as Wall Starts to Go Up Robert Hackwill - Euronews
go to original January 25, 2017

President Trump is taking a first step toward keeping his signature campaign promises on immigration. He plans to sign executive orders to start building a wall along the Mexican border. (CBS)

Update: Trump Maintains Mexico Is ‘100 Percent’ Paying for Border Wall (New York Post)

President Donald Trump has promised more concrete and razor wire on the US-Mexico border. He wants to physically isolate the two countries, by extending walls like the one in Ciudad Jaurez, built between 2007 and 2010, under the Bush and Obama mandates.

Under #Nafta #US exports to #Mexico have multiplied by six reaching $263 billion in 2015. #AMxPAC #TradeWorks pic.twitter.com/fSrZz9yQIu

— AMxPAC (@AMxPAC) January 24, 2017

Trump is doing this, he says, in the name of security, and he appears determined. His latest tweet on the matter was on January 24th.

Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017

Get set for a bout of arm-wrestling in which the US has the wood on Mexico. Trump wasted no time after meeting Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in August, when he was still just a hopeful candidate, in declaring he would build a wall between the US and its southern neighbor, which is economically reliant on the US and vulnerable.

In March 2015 Trump launched an incendiary slogan that would help get him into the White House.

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