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Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto is also considering scrapping talks with Donald Trump as the bitter row over plans for a wall along the USA’s 2,000-mile southern border intensifies. The meeting is on “for now” but Mr Pena Nieto is coming under pressure to cancel the visit after Mr Trump signed executive orders authorising the controversial wall. The announcement was made just as a Mexican delegation led by Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray arrived at the White House for talks and the timing sparked outrage in Mexico.

GETTY Donald Trump holds up the order authorising the construction of a wall between the US and Mexico

GETTY Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto said his country would not pay for the wallq

Prominent politicians and many on social media saw this as a deliberate snub to Mexico’s efforts to engage with Mr Trump, who has for months used Mexico as a political punching bag. And Leftist opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the wall announcement was an insult to his country and called for international legal action. He told a crowd of supporters north of Mexico City: “I respectfully suggest that the government of Mexico presents a lawsuit at the United Nations against the US government for violation of human rights and racial discrimination.” Mr Trump's broadsides against Mexico have piled domestic pressure on Mr Pena Nieto has has been accused of failing to stand up to his US counterpart and whose approval ratings are at the lowest level of any Mexican president in years as a result.

GETTY Donald Trump has sparked outrage in Mexico with his border wall order

I have said time and time again, Mexico will not pay for any wall Enrique Pena Nieto

The new US President’s threats to tear up a joint trade deal and impose hefty border taxes on Mexican goods have battered the peso although his comments on wanting to see a strong Mexican economy lifted the currency to a three-week high. Mr Pena Nieto condemned the decision on the wall and rejected Mr Trump's pledge that he would make Mexico pay for it. In a recorded address televised nationally he said: ”I regret and reject the decision of the US to build the wall. ”I have said time and time again, Mexico will not pay for any wall. "Based on the final report from the Mexican officials who are in Washington right now I will make decisions about what to do next,"

GETTY Donald Trump puts pen to paper on the controversial executive order

Incredible views of the U.S. - Mexico border NOW Fri, February 10, 2017 The structures, fences and walls that mark the border between the United States and Mexico as President Donald Trump reiterates his promise to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 21 Three men from India jump the fence from Mexico and give themselves up to U.S. border patrol agents in Calexico, California