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Mexico to Trump: Pay for Your Own Wall

The Mexican government is in essence saying, “Pay for your own wall,” referring to 2016 Presidential Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for the wall he intends to build when he is elected president.

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Donald Trump Distinguishes Himself from GOP Field on Trade

As Donald Trump continues to surge in the polls, a staple of Trump’s campaign rhetoric remains his emphasis on bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States and confronting foreign competitors like China and Mexico over their unfair trading practices.

In this July 7, 2015, file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. Justice Department lawyers are asking a federal judge to reconsider her July ruling ordering the release of children and mothers detained after they entered the U.S. illegally across the Mexican border. File

Obama Admin. Launches Media Campaign To Deter Illegal Immigration

In recent months and years illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have flooded the U.S.-Mexico border believing they could stay in the U.S. and thinking that the “Notices to Appear” handed to them by immigration officials before being released into the interior of the U.S. were “permisos” or free passes.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico’s Energy Reform Is Rolling, Albeit with Training Wheels

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto reformed his country’s energy policy and invited outside intelligence and investment to boost slumping oil output. In late 2013, he amended the Constitution to allow private and foreign companies to explore and produce oil and gas in Mexico—for the first time in nearly eight decades. The amendments put an end to the government monopoly. Nieto hopes his reforms will bring in $50 billion in investment by 2018.

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Trump: ‘We Should Boycott Mexico’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared “we should boycott Mexico” in an interview set to air on Sunday’s broadcast of “The Rita Cosby Show” on 77 WABC in New York. Trump said of Mexico, “It’s a corrupt place. And the

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Donald Trump Piñatas Swing in Sacramento

Some members of the Latino community in California are beating the hell out of the latest Trump incarnation: a Trump piñata. Although the piñatas are unavailable in California, the family of Hector Barajas, a GOP strategist, bought some in Mexico

Rick Perry

Rick Perry: Trump’s Comments Are a ‘Toxic Mix of Demagoguery and Nonsense’

Former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) had some sharp words for his fellow Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, slamming the New Yorker’s “fundamental misunderstanding of border security” and saying that Trump was not offering conservatism to primary voters, but instead “Trump-ism — a toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense.”