Trump insists on the wall

[OyaYansa]

The US president says he has never changed his perception of how the physical barrier should be, contradicting his chief of staff, John Kelly

 

US President Donald Trump insisted that the border wall will be paid "directly or indirectly" by Mexico and assured that he has never changed his perception of what the physical barrier should be like, contradicting his chief of staff, John Kelly.

"The Wall will be paid, directly or indirectly, or through a long-term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has an absurd surplus of 71,000 million dollars with the United States," Trump said in his Twitter account.

 

Trump stressed that "the cost of 20,000 million dollars is minimal compared to what Mexico gets from the US The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a bad joke!".

The president's words come after his cabinet chief, John Kelly, acknowledged in a meeting with the Democrats of the Hispanic Caucus of Congress (CHC) that some of President Donald Trump's campaign promises are "uninformed", commenting on the controversial wall and the promise that it will be paid in full by the neighbor to the south.

Kelly said the intention is to build a physical barrier along 1,300 kilometers of the existing 3,100 border.

"The wall is the wall, it has never changed or evolved since the first day I put it in. In parts of it, by necessity, it will look through and was never considered to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, we stopped or rivers, "the president added.

During the election campaign, Trump said repeatedly that he would build a border wall that Mexico would pay and for which the US taxpayers would not put a dollar.

Precisely, next week will be held in Canada the sixth round of renegotiation of NAFTA, pact in force since 1994 between the US, Canada and Mexico, and that the US president has described as a "disaster."