About two years ago my cousin, who was the cameraman on a film shoot in Miami, told me about a conversation he had recently had with another member of the crew.<\/p>\n
His colleague was from Mexica, so naturally he had been following the various pronouncements from our then-new president. In particular he was interested in our president’s promise that he would build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it.<\/p>\n
My cousin said that his colleague had told him: “I don’t understand why we are supposed to pay for the wall. After all, we are already paying for the tunnels.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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