“You can’t expect to have Mexico say, ‘We’re going to pay for the wall.’ They’ll never do that. All Mexicans oppose the idea of being arm-twisted into paying for the wall. They’re not going to do it.”
— Former Secretary of State James Baker, in an interview with Politico.
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