President Donald Trump called out Mexico on Tuesday, vowing yet again that the nation on America’s southern border will pay for his proposed wall. But Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto fired back almost immediately with a promise of his own, insisting that will never happen.
Trump made his comments during a rally in Nashville, Tennessee that touched on many of the talking points from his 2016 campaign, from attacks on Hillary Clinton to immigration.
“In the end, Mexico’s going to pay for the wall,” Trump said. “They’re going to pay for the wall, and they’re going to enjoy it, OK?”
Peña Nieto replied on Twitter:
President @realDonaldTrump: NO. Mexico will NEVER pay for a wall. Not now, not ever.
The border wall has long been a Trump rallying cry. He would ask the crowd “Who’s gonna pay for the wall?” and the audience would shout back “Mexico!”
However, his budget proposals have included funding for the wall with money coming from American taxpayers, not Mexico, which has repeatedly insisted that it won’t pay.
U.S. border guard and Mexicans behind the border fence.
March 21, 1929
A line of cars carrying Mexicans over the border into California. The fence in the foreground is the border; the line of cars is in the main street of Mexicali.
1930s
A flock of sheep at the border between Mexico and the United States.
June 1937
A pic of state border plant inspection maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture between Mexico and the United States. Shoppers returning from Mexico (Juarez) to the United States (El Paso) over the bridge that carries all the traffic are required to open their packages for inspection.
June 1937
Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas.
June 1937
Mexicans entering the United States via the United States immigration station at El Paso, Texas.
1943
U.S. soldiers exchanging money at the U.S.-Mexico border.
March 15, 1950
A view of the Sigma Pi sorority crossing under the Mexico border sign to Tijuana, Mexico in Calexico, California.
1950s
Pregnant woman at the border.
1954
Mexican farm laborers standing on the Mexican side of the border trying to get into the U.S.
1954
Mexican workers waiting just inside the U.S. border to be let in.
October 1, 1962
A border guard checks passes of Mexicans entering the United States near Nogales, Mexico.
1967
Mexican workers crossing the border into Texas have their papers checked.
Sept. 22 1984
Suspected undocumented immigrants cross into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico.
1990
Men look across to the other side of the Tijuana border.
1990
Woman walking along the America-Mexico border, near Tijuana.
1993
U.S. Customs agents patrolling the border.
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At first light, undocumented immigrants wait to cross over into the United States.
1994
Undocumented immigrants wait on the other side of Mexico.
Aug. 19, 1997
Esther Pereyra Rubalcaba (left) kisses her daughter Patricia through the wall separating the US and Min Tijuana, Mexico.
July 20, 2005
Migrant activists lean against the border fence to pay homage to undocumented immigrants who died crossing over.
Aug. 28, 2005
Young Mexican nationals peer through the border wall at the beach along San Ysidro, California.
June 6, 2015
Paper doves in the shape of a heart are seen at the border fence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Sept. 25, 2016
Maria Rodriguez Torres, 70, looks towards her departing grandchildren after seeing them for the first time at the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico. She had traveled with family members from Mexico City to see her grandchildren through the fence at "Friendship Park."
Oct. 6, 2016
A burnt car is seen next to a section of the wall separating Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico.
Feb. 4, 2017
A visitor stands next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Friends of Friendship Park in San Ysidro, California.
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