Pena Nieto Rejects POTUS Claim of Speaking Over Phone on Border Issue PTI
go to original August 1, 2017

After receiving denial after denial from cities around the United States to his requests to install a billboard with President Donald Trump depicted as a character from the 1988 horror film "They Live," pop artist Mitch O'Connell got the go-ahead to install it on a main avenue in Mexico City, where it can be seen by millions of drivers every day. (Agence France-Presse)

Update: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Boy Scout Leaders Did Not Call to Praise Donald Trump, White House Admits (Sky News)

After Donald Trump boasted that his Mexican counterpart had called him to praise his border policy, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he had not recently spoken to the US President on the phone.

Trump made the comments as he presented his new chief of staff, former Homeland Security secretary John Kelly, who is tasked with restoring order to a White House beset by scandal, infighting and legislative defeats.

"At Homeland, what he has done has been nothing short of miraculous," Trump said of Kelly.

"As you know, the border was a tremendous problem and they're close to 80 percent stoppage. And even the president of Mexico called me - they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment." Pena Nieto's office rejected that account.

"President Enrique Pena Nieto has not recently communicated with President Donald Trump by phone," it said in a statement yesterday.

It said the two leaders had last discussed migration issues when they met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany on July 7. At the time, it said, Pena Nieto shared Mexican figures showing that 31 per cent fewer Mexicans had been deported from the United States in the first half of 2017 compared to the year before, and that 47 percent fewer migrants had entered Mexico from Central and South America. The G20 sit-down was the first official meeting between the two presidents, whose relationship has been tense.

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Related: Boy Scout Leadership Also Denies Claims of Calling Trump to Offer Praise (The Guardian)

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