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Trump's Wall: A Wasteful, Foolish Boondoggle
It won’t work, and it distracts attention from more important issues.
Going nowhere.
Photographer: John Moore/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s promised wall has already stopped at least one Mexican from entering the U.S.: President Enrique Peña Nieto, who has canceled his planned trip to Washington next week. Trump tweeted on Thursday that if Mexico didn’t want to pay for the wall, then maybe Peña Nieto shouldn’t come. The Mexican president complied.
Such is the state of relations between the U.S. and its southern neighbor, which is also its third-largest trading partner. Building a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border has never made much sense -- economically, financially or symbolically. Now its political costs are coming into view.