Mexican ex-president: No, we won't pay for Trump's 'stupid wall'
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/how-does-mexico-feel-about-trump-wall-218946#ixzz3zbHf0UB3
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon assailed Donald Trump's call to build a wall between his country and the United States and make Mexico pay for it as "stupid," calling the Republican candidate "not [a] very well-informed man" and "completely crazy."
"Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall," Calderon told CNBC in a recent interview. "And it's going to be completely useless."
The U.S. would stand to be the first loser of such a wall, said Calderon, who served as president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012.
"If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade [or] for people is going to provide prosperity to the United States, he is completely crazy," Calderon said.
During his campaign launch last June, Trump made a point of emphasizing the role that border security and immigration would play in his campaign, pointing to Mexico as one country where [t]hey're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
"It is incredible that a quite admirable society like the American society could produce such kind of candidates," Calderon continued. "I cannot understand that. No offense, no offense to America. So Donald Trump … is ambitious but not exactly [a] very well-informed man. I don't want to say ignorant, but he is not very well informed."