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Donald Trump's plan to make Mexico pay for a border wall isn't sitting well with some Mexicans, the Los Angeles Times reports.
"I'm not going to pay for that wall," says Sergio Sarmiento, a 52-year-old truck driver from Sonora, Mexico.
"I'm not going to pay for that f---ing wall."
Sarmiento, who came to the US when he was 10 years old, says he's lived in the US for all of his adult life and has never had a problem with illegal immigration.
But he says Trump's plan to build a wall along the entire border and make Mexico pay for it is "ridiculous."
"They're not going to pay for that f---ing wall, they're not going to pay for that tunnel," he says.
"They're not going to pay for that tunnel, they're not going to pay for that tunnel because they don't have the money to pay for it."
Other Mexicans agree.
"They don't want to pay for that f---ing wall, they don't want to pay for drugs, they don't want to pay for human trafficking, they don't want to pay
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