Mexican government officials said today the country will commence studies to determine the actual boundaries of the border it shares with the US after US president Donald Trump declared in a speech to Congress that he intends to “get serious” about building a border wall. Trump has previously stated the construction will be financed by implementing a 20 percent tax on all Mexican imports, including steel.
Luis Videgaray Caso, an official within the country’s exterior relations ministry, SRE, said the entity is ready to prepare technical studies to determine the boundaries of the border. Caso’s comments came after Mexican senator Patricio Martínez presented documents that indicated the US has improperly occupied over 84,000 hectares of Mexican land.
Caso said SRE will employ all needed efforts whenever they exist or include the country’s international legal capacity to oppose such “unilateral decision by the US government.”