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Not long after Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an image began circulating online claiming that a Mexican supermarket chain was collecting donations toward his proposed border wall between the two countries. On 10 November 2016, a YouTube video claimed to show a picture of a receipt from a Soriana Hiper market in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon that included a 10-peso charge for an additional donation [for] Trump wall. The image then spread online, with one version containing the caption: Soriana, which operates more than 800 stores around Mexico, refuted the picture in a statement released on 15 November 2016, saying the photo in question was false and tendentiously manipulated: The translation reads, in part: The Trump wall receipt was based off of another fake photo that circulated in 2013, accusing the company of charging customers for a additional donation to the Teletón, the annual national fundraiser for childrens' healthcare: One of Trump's campaign promises was that his administration would not only build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but make the latter country pay for it. That statement is still on his campaign website. He has since stated: However, it should be noted that an unmistakable wall already exists along much of the border between Mexico and the United States.
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