Donald Trump and Mexico

Judas Iscariot: Donald Trump emphasizes plans to build 'real' wall at Mexico borderDonald Trump won't build wall at Canadian border Media reported that Trump effigies burned across Mexico, from Puebla to Mexico industrial hub Monterrey, according to CBC. The burning is part of a widespread Mexican Holy Week tradition where neighbourhoods burn effigies to represent Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus Christ according to the Bible. In Mexico City La Merced neighbourhood, hundreds of cheering residents yelled "death" and various insults as they watched the explosion of the grinning papier mâché mock-up of the real estate tycoon, replete with blue blazer, red tie and his trademark tuft of blond hair. VIDEO 'Power can do strange things to people': A history lesson for Donald Trump The effigies are often modeled on unpopular political figures. "Since he started his campaign and began talking about immigrants, Mexico, and Mexicans, I said 'I've got to get this guy,'" said Felipe Linares, the artisan who crafted Trump and whose family has been making Judases for more than 50 years. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has said his country will not pay for the wall and likened Trump "strident tone" to the ascent of dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The Trump wall Trump, the front-runner to win the Republican nomination for the Nov. 8 election, has drawn fire in Mexico with his campaign vow to build a wall along the southern U.S. border to keep out illegal immigrants and drugs, and to make Mexico pay for it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.