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Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)

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A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.

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[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 27 points 1 year ago

And make America pay for it! That'd make me laugh every time I think about it for now and forever after Donald Trump tried to get Mexico to pay for his dumb fucking wall.

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 5 points 1 year ago

Small correction: he told people Mexico would pay for it. Because how could he possibly make another country pay for anything? Lol. Only thing stupider was that people believed that shit.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

He did try. He begged the Mexican president to pay for it. "You gotta help me out." The Mexican president did not help him out.

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 4 points 1 year ago

You gotta source for that? All I heard was that the Mexican president addressed it publicly after Trump said this bs on the campaign trail.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They leaked the phone call. https://m.facebook.com/thedailyshow/videos/the-transcript-of-trumps-leaked-phone-call-with-mexicos-president-is-absolutely-/10155665433246800/?wtsid=rdr_0nUJb1eV7oYvkORK6

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uyfxghJU2SI&feature=share9

For some reason my search results refuse to turn up the actual transcript, just other people reading exerpts.

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago

Haha I think I missed that! Thanks for this. You're right that he did beg the Mexican president, but it sounds like he didn't care at all if he actually did it. He just wanted him to say he would pay for it lol