{"id":90188,"date":"2017-02-18T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90188"},"modified":"2017-02-18T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T09:58:08","slug":"over-1500-mexicans-protest-on-us-border-vs-trumps-wall-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/18\/over-1500-mexicans-protest-on-us-border-vs-trumps-wall-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,500 Mexicans protest on US border vs Trump&#8217;s wall plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_90189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90189\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90189\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wall.png\" alt=\"More than 1,500 Mexicans formed a &quot;living wall&quot; at the border town of Ciudad Juarez, which is separated by fencing from its US neighbor city El Paso, to protest US President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, media reported. (Photo: Ted Eytan\/Flickr)\" width=\"709\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wall.png 709w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wall-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wall-20x11.png 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,500 Mexicans formed a &#8220;living wall&#8221; at the border town of Ciudad Juarez, which is separated by fencing from its US neighbor city El Paso, to protest US President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, media reported. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taedc\/32722159326\/\">Ted Eytan\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MOSCOW\u2014More than 1,500 Mexicans formed a &#8220;living wall&#8221; at the border town of Ciudad Juarez, which is separated by fencing from its US neighbor city El Paso, to protest US President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by prominent politicians, including the founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and three-time Mexican presidential candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas. According to reports, Senator Armando Rios Piter, independent municipal president-elect of Ciudad Juarez Hector Armando Cabada Alvidrez, and Mayor of El Paso Texas Oscar Leeser were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will oppose (the wall) with friendship. When different voices merge into one, they turn into a single tone. When different hands are intertwined, it shows that we are together, proves our desire to continue to be a community of the two countries,&#8221; state governor Javier Corral said on Friday, as quoted by Excelsior.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters held roses and waved them at residents of the neighboring country in greeting.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 25, Trump, delivering on his signature campaign pledge, signed an executive order that initiated the process of building the wall on the US southern border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly stated Mexico would pay for the border wall, despite Mexico&#8217;s refusal to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW\u2014More than 1,500 Mexicans formed a &#8220;living wall&#8221; at the border town of Ciudad Juarez, which is separated by fencing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[15434,15433],"class_list":["post-90188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-mexicans-protest","tag-trumps-wall-plan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}