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Mexican lawmaker climbs 20 ft. border wall in stunt aimed at Trump http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/americas/mexican-lawmaker-border-wall-trnd/ Perched more than 20 feet in the air atop the border fence between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, a Mexican lawmaker delivers a message to President Donald Trump. "It's completely unnecessary -- and it's absurd -- to build a wall that costs $15 billion," Braulio Guerra says in Spanish as a camera rolls. "Look, in these 8 meters, more or less 8, 10 meters, how simple it is to climb." The 2-minute video is the latest creative volley in the international drama unfolding over Trump's signature campaign pledge: to build a wall at the border and make Mexico pay for it. The Mexican government repeatedly has refused. Cost estimates for a wall range from $12 billion to $15 billion -- a best guess by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- to a $21.6 billion option now under consideration by the Department of Homeland Security.
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