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Jose Garcia

(2,593 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:09 PM Jan 2017

Miami developer Jorge Prez calls his friend Trumps border wall idiotic, report says

Source: The Miami Herald

Billionaire Miami developer Jorge Pérez — a friend and former business partner of President Donald Trump — thinks the plan for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico is “idiotic,” according to a Bloomberg report.

Pérez told Bloomberg that Trump asked him if he would be interested in working on the project, an offer the Related Group honcho declined.

“The wall is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever seen or heard in my life,” Pérez said in a Tuesday interview with Bloomberg. “A wall for what? You think a wall is going to stop people that are hungry? Good employment in Mexico, economic growth in Mexico, equality is going to stop people from coming over the border.”

Related worked on several South Florida condo projects with Trump. As Miami’s luxury real estate market cools down, Pérez is launching new developments in Mexico.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article129787664.html

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Miami developer Jorge Prez calls his friend Trumps border wall idiotic, report says (Original Post) Jose Garcia Jan 2017 OP
The vast majority bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 #1
Not according to Pew. braddy Jan 2017 #2
Float the people of Mexico's boat madokie Jan 2017 #3

bucolic_frolic

(43,129 posts)
1. The vast majority
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:11 PM
Jan 2017

of illegals in the country entered with passports through our airports

The physical border is low tech and low volume

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