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PHOENIX — Donald Trump’s utterance of “bad hombres” during Wednesday night’s presidential debate echoed across both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Within minutes, the Republican nominee was getting a lashing about his mangling of English and Spanish.

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Trump — whose proposal for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border helped fuel his rise to the party nomination — blamed some “bad hombres here” for drug epidemics around the country, and promised to kick them out.

“Bad hombres” quickly began trending on Twitter.

At a Mexico City barbecue restaurant, an assortment of Mexicans and expats guffawed at “bad hombres.”

“I think the way that Trump has talked about Mexicans from the start of the campaign is to call them rapists, criminals, he hasn’t changed,” Santiago Betancourt said at Pinche Gringo BBQ, where about 200 people gathered to watch the debate.