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Thomas Graham in Mexico City

Mexican president to ‘friend’ Trump: close the US-Mexico border at your peril

Older white man with white hair in dark suit speaks on well-lit stage, gesturing with both hands raised.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, this month. Photograph: Isaac Esquivel/EPA

Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has written to his “friend” Donald Trump warning that any attempt to close the US-Mexico border if he is re-elected would spark a “rebellion” on both sides.

Trump made the pledge during his speech at the Republican national convention, where he spoke about the “massive invasion at our southern border that spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land”.

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