Mexico City, June 17 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Mexican Government has criticized U.S. business tycoon Donald Trump as “absurd and prejudiced” after he said Mexico sent rapists, drug traffickers and criminals across the border into the United States.

“It's obvious he has no clear project and that he obviously has no idea what Mexican migrants contribute to the United States, as well as migrants from the rest of the world, who have backed the development of the United States,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement, according to Mexican Reforma newspaper. The ministry added that the contribution of Mexicans in the U.S. has been recognized by the U.S. people themselves.

During a speech Tuesday, in which he announced he would be running for U.S. president, Trump also said he would build a “great wall” along the border with Mexico which wouldn't cost U.S. taxpayers a dime, because he said Mexico would pay for the construction. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will have Mexico pay for that wall,” Trump said, but did not provide details on how he would get Mexico to agree. And political observers said Trump might not know that there is already a pretty big fence along most of the border between both countries.