BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/WALL: “Perched more than 20 feet in the air atop the border fence between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, a Mexican lawmaker delivers a message to President Donald Trump.
‘It’s completely unnecessary — and it’s absurd — to build a wall that costs $15 billion,’ Braulio Guerra says in Spanish as a camera rolls. ‘Look, in these 8 meters, more or less 8, 10 meters, how simple it is to climb.’
The 2-minute video is the latest creative volley in the international drama unfolding over Trump’s signature campaign pledge: to build a wall at the border and make Mexico pay for it. The Mexican government repeatedly has refused. Trump also has issued executive orders that pave the way for a dramatic increase in deportations.
Guerra, a member of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ruling political party, says in the video that he visited the border not just to slam Trump’s wall plan but also to talk with people being sent back to Mexico by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.”
– Joshua Berlinger, “Mexican lawmaker climbs border wall in stunt aimed at Trump,” CNN.com, March 3, 2017