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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 01:56 PM Feb 2017

Proud Mexico spurns U.S. aid under review by Trump

Source: Reuters

Fri Feb 24, 2017 | 12:45pm EST

Mexico does not need financial aid from the United States, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said on Friday, after President Donald Trump ordered a report on U.S. assistance to its southern neighbor over the last five years.

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The review of financial assistance to Mexico was included in a Jan. 25 executive order on immigration security that mandated the construction of a border wall, leading to speculation that Trump wants to redirect the aid to pay for its construction.

"When they realize what's left of Merida, they will understand that it's not even that significant," Osorio Chong told local radio.

"We don't object to them moving these resources... Mexico now has its own capabilities," he said.




Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-idUSKBN1631UQ?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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Proud Mexico spurns U.S. aid under review by Trump (Original Post) inanna Feb 2017 OP
Good for them. n/t tazkcmo Feb 2017 #1
How much of the wall will this pay for? IronLionZion Feb 2017 #2
2 bricks ATL Ebony Feb 2017 #4
Prepare for $10 heads of Lettuce... Blue Idaho Feb 2017 #3

Blue Idaho

(4,988 posts)
3. Prepare for $10 heads of Lettuce...
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 02:57 PM
Feb 2017

Between losses to the farm workforce and the economic wall that Trump is building American agriculture is going to get hit with one hell of a haymaker.

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