Trump still wants Mexico to pay for border wall

US President Donald Trump yesterday said he still wants Mexico to pay for a planned border wall, as he met his Mexican counterpart for the first time as head of state.

Asked at the meeting with Enrique Pena Nieto on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, if he still wanted Mexico to pay for the wall, Trump said: "Absolutely".

The Mexican president noted that "migration" is an issue that has "occupied" both administrations.

Building a wall between Mexico and the United States to stop illegal immigration -- and Mexico paying for it -- was one of Trump's key campaign pledges in last year's election.

In January, Pena Nieto cancelled a trip to Washington in response to Trump's insistence on the issue, plunging the countries' relations into their biggest crisis in decades.

The two leaders have since spoken by phone, and a series of high-level meetings have eased the tension.