Thousands of Mexicans take part in an anti-Trump march in Mexico City, on February 12, 2017. Mexicans took to the streets against US President Donald Trump, hitting back at his anti-Mexican rhetoric and vows to make the country pay for his "big, beautiful
Mexico: Thousands of protesters took to Mexico City's central thoroughfare Sunday to protest US President Donald Trump and his plans to build a 2,000-mile border wall, while also blasting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and the ruling the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) party.
Mexico City's police department said there were no injuries or incidents at the demonstration. Police estimated the crowd at 20,000 people, with 3,000 police officers on hand to keep order.
While some marchers carried portraits of the US president and chanted anti-Trump slogans, equal numbers of protesters called for Nieto, the Mexican president to resign and held signs denouncing what they described as corruption in Mexico's government.
"I regret and reject the decision of the US to build the wall," Pena Nieto said adding that Mexico won't pay for it. "Trump, pay for your own wall!" declared one sign in English, a reference to the president's plan to build a new barrier along the almost 2,000-mile frontier between the two nations.
The proposal has been a flashpoint of criticism here. The Mexican government has rebuffed Trump's insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall.
Along with the wall, Trump's plans to step up deportations, slap a tariff on products imported to the United States and renegotiate trade deals have all raised ire in Mexico and raised fears of an economic collapse. The Mexican peso has been steadily declining in value against the US dollar since Trump began rising in US electoral polls late last year.
Kellyanne Conway, top adviser to President Donald Trump stated that Trump expects Mexico to pay for the wall.
