Trump's Border Wall May Be Built in Mexico Because 'US Won't Cede' the Rio Grande Sophia Tesfaye - Salon
go to original March 29, 2017

Deadline Here for Mexico Boarder Wall Bids (Wochit News)

Update: U.S. Government Extends Deadline for Mexico Border Wall Contract Bids (Associated Press)

There is virtually no chance that President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border will be paid for by Mexico — despite his repeated campaign pledges — and now the White House is signaling that the massive construction project may not even take place on U.S. territory.

Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made the media rounds this week to sell the president’s efforts to roll back environmental protections. The former Montana congressman promised a “very pro-Western” administration that plans to relax protections for threatened jaguars, which live in northern Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States, in order to build Trump’s border wall.

But, Zinke admitted to energy and environmental outlet E&E News, Trump’s wall may even have to be built on Mexican territory, not American territory, in accordance with the terrain along the border.

“The border is complicated, as far as building a physical wall,” Zinke told E&E News’ Corbin Hiar. “The Rio Grande, what side of the river are you going to put the wall? We’re not going to put it on our side and cede the river to Mexico. And we’re probably not going to put it in the middle of the river.”

According to international treaties signed between the U.S. and Mexico, the 1,200-mile long Rio Grande is the official border between the two countries.

Zinke didn’t elaborate on how the wall would get built if it wasn’t located on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande or in the middle of the river. His comments are the first from a Trump administration official to suggest that the U.S. should build the wall on Mexican territory.

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