Mexican Cement Manufacturer Offers To Build Trump’s Wall
A Mexican cement manufacturer has offered to help President-elect Donald Trump build his wall along the US-Mexican southern border. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua’s (GCC) Chief Executive Officer Enrique Escalante told Reuters. “We can’t be choosy….We’re an important producer in that area and we have to respect our clients on both sides of the border.”
Trump sparked huge controversy during his election campaign when he pledged to create a “big, beautiful, powerful” wall across the 2,000-mile border joining southern America with Mexico.
He even accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug traffickers across the border, claiming the wall would put an end to America’s immigration problems.
RT reports:
A wall along the southern border between Mexico and the United States would have to be 2,000 miles long, according to projections by the Government Accountability Office.
Estimates on the costs of such a wall have ranged from $15 billion to $25 billion, Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the US Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute told NBC in October 2015.
The wall, in reality, would only have to be 1,000 miles long by taking advantage of natural borders, but its height grew during Trump’s campaign from 35-40 foot high, or as high as 50 feet and would be made of pre-cast concrete.
GCC is one of biggest cement producers in Mexico, based in the state of Chihuahua. The company has three plants in the US which generate about 70 percent of its sales.
GCC just expanded its reach by acquiring Cemex, another Mexican company, with a cement plant in Texas and two cement distribution terminals in Amarillo and El Paso and concrete, aggregates, asphalt and building materials in El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Trump had said he planned to invest in energy and infrastructure in the US; Escalante thinks bodes well for him.
“For the business, we’re in, Trump is a candidate that does favor the industry quite a bit,” Escalante said.
On announcing his candidacy for president, Trump talked about building the wall.
“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively,” Trump said, announcing his candidacy on June 16, 2015, according to Politifact. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.”
In his victory speech on election night, November 8, however, he talked about building everything but the wall.
“Working together, we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the American dream. I’ve spent my entire life and business looking at the untapped potential in projects and in people all over the world. That is now what I want to do for our country,” said Trump, according to a transcript published by The New York Times. “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.”
In a three-minute video released Monday, however, President-elect Trump made no mention of the wall as the focus of his work in the beginning days of his administration.
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Posted by USA Supreme on Monday, November 21, 2016
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With plants in the USA that means jobs for Americans. if the Mexicans can make some money and provide a quality product so much the better. Who knows this may lead to more jobs on highways, bridges etc. WIN WIN.