MOSCOW (Sputnik) — US real estate mogul Donald Trump sought on Wednesday to woo voters with a promise of a great wall on the southern border with Mexico, hinting at a possible bid for the 2016 presidential race.
Trump has been on a campaign trail recently, crisscrossing the early-voting US states of Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire where he promised improved border security, rebuilding of US infrastructure, and to bolster the US military and economy.
"Nobody can build a fence like me," Trump boasted in an interview with CBN's the Brody File. "I would build a wall like nobody can build a wall. And nobody comes in illegally anymore."
"Now the southern border everybody comes in. You just walk by. So we are taking hundreds of thousands of people," Trump claimed.
The magnate said he was experienced in building fences, which is something his corporation has been doing for decades. "I would have Mexico pay for it," he added.
The Texas-Mexico border is crossed by thousands of illegal immigrants every year. A July 2014 study by the Pew Research Center found that about 11.7 million illegal immigrants reside in the United States, of which over 50 percent came from Mexico.
