/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-infobae.s3.amazonaws.com/public/GMVTRVIKMJCBLGATXYNPH72ZGY.jpg "Mexico “is paying for the border wall,” Trump said a day before signing ratification of the T-MEC")
The president of the United States, Donald Trump said once again on Tuesday that Mexico is paying for the border wall, a day before the president signed the ratification of the T-MEC, trade agreement between your country, Mexico and Canada.
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Trump He also repeated his praise for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of whom he said he was doing “a fantastic job” in a “difficult situation”, in reference to migration and drug trafficking.
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The US president added that He has “great respect” for his southern neighbors. “We like Mexico very much, we got along well with Mexico, the president is a great friend of mine, I think he’s doing a fantastic job, it’s a difficult situation, ”he said.
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In addition, he argued that the border wall, one of its main campaign promises when he launched as a presidential candidate in 2016, “It is also an advantage for Mexico”. “The wall is a vital barrier to block (the entry of) deadly drugs into our communities,” he explained.
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“What we do is stop the flow of those drugs in record numbers, many are still coming, but we are blocking them“He finished. Trump gave these statements during a campaign event for his re-election in the Wildwood community, in New Jersey, in the northeastern United States.
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His statements were given at a crucial time of the week and year, since in November 2020 the presidential elections will be held: Trump is expected to sign the ratification of the T-MEC on Wednesday, which will replace NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), and the president is involved in the process of political trial against him.
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The impeachment process is in its first stages in the US Senate, after the House of Representatives, mostly Democratic, Trump’s opposition, approve the two censorship articles against the republican president, in a vote where the legislators practically aligned themselves with their respective parties.
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Further, Trump claimed the idea that the border wall is being paid by Mexico when Marcelo Ebrard, the Chancellor of the López Obrador government, is in the United States, since it will be present at the signing of the T-MEC, considered a political triumph by both administrations.
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This is not the first time that Trump says that Mexico is the economic responsible for the lifting of the wall. Over the past year, Trump has already described López Obrador’s work as “fantastic” by indicating that the flow of Central American migrants It had declined in recent months.
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“Tijuana is here together, there are thousands of people who have tried to enter, there is great cooperation with Mexico, the president of Mexico has been fantastic, all the people of Mexico have been fantastic“Trump said while touring the wall’s work in California territory.
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And it is that the US president forced Mexico to sit at the negotiating table at the beginning of last year, since He threatened to impose tariffs on all Mexican products exported to his country if his southern neighbor did not take action to stop the flow of migration, which comes mainly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
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Mexico, to avoid entering a trade war with its main commercial ally, accepted the conditions and sent the newly created National Guard to collaborate with the migratory work both on its northern and southern borders.
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The migratory flow actually fell, but critics of López Obrador, including legislators of his own party, They have pointed out that, thanks to these types of actions to prevent the entry and advancement of migrants through the country in search of reaching the United States, Mexico has become the “de facto” wall of Trump.
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The construction of the real wall, meanwhile, has been slow, but has not stopped moving forward. Last July, the US Supreme Court gave President Trump a triumph to the allow your government to redirect USD 2.5 billion, approved by Congress for the Pentagon, to the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico despite the fact that legislators denied that funding.
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A couple of months later, the Pentagon announced that it would allocate USD 3.6 billion to the construction of a 280-kilometer stretch of the wall on the border of the United States with Mexico, at the request of President Trump.
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To unlock these funds the Department of Defense decided to “postpone” 127 projects for the construction and modernization of military precincts in the United States and abroad provided in the Pentagon budget for 2019.
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