Mexico denies president called Trump to compliment immigration policy

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Mexico fires back at Trump for claiming that their president called him to compliment his immigration policies

Mexico is denying that its president recently called President Trump to compliment the White House's immigration policy, saying Enrique Pena Nieto has not contacted Trump in weeks.

Trump earlier this week implied that Mexico's president had praised the White House in a call for policies that lowered levels of illegal immigration on Mexico's southern border.

"Even the president of Mexico called me," Trump said at a Cabinet meeting. "They said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment."

Mexico's government fired back at the White House on Wednesday, saying that the leaders' last contact was at the G20 summit last month.

Pena Nieto "has not had any recent telephone communication with President Donald Trump," Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement reported by The Associated Press.

According to the AP, Pena Nieto and Trump last spoke about immigration during their meeting at the G20 summit.

During that conversation, Pena Nieto reportedly told Trump that deportations of Mexicans from the United States had fallen 31 percent in the first few months of Trump's presidency from the same period last year. He also remarked that Central American migrants entering Mexico illegally had also fallen during this period.

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