Margarita Zavala, Mexico’s ’Hillary Clinton’ Rips Trump Over ’Useless’ Border Wall Alex Seitz-Wald - NBC News
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Presidential Candidate Margarita Zavala Wants to Dismantle Trump's Proposed Border Wall (CNBC)

President Donald Trump's border wall may not be going anywhere right now and one of Mexico's leading candidates in the presidential elections told NBC News she wants to make sure the "useless" wall stays that way.

"It's a false solution to a false problem," Margarita Zavala said of the wall through a translator in a phone interview Wednesday. "The wall does not help in any way the relationship between the two countries. The wall is pulling us apart."

Trump's proposed wall, she said, is more about scapegoating Mexicans for political gain than for U.S. security.

"What Donald Trump has done is create an enemy. Mexicans have served as a convenient enemy to rally his supporters," Zavala said, dismissing his comments at the start of his campaign about Mexican rapists and murders as "hate speech."

Zavala, a former member of Congress and ex-first lady (she is married to Felipe Calderon, a former president), is expected to be the nominee of one of Mexico's two main political parties, the center-right National Action Party (PAN), for the country's July 2018 presidential election. She has been referred to as the "Hillary Clinton of Mexico" in media reports. Trump is already shaping up to be a major issue in the campaign.

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Related: 'Enormous Progress' in U.S.-Mexico Ties: Mexican Foreign Minister Videgaray (Reuters)

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