Senator David Vitter Accidentally Introduces House Bill To Pay For Trump’s Border Wall

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 3-8-2016 | sundance

[smoothsailing]

The word “accidentally” has to be used in the headline because while Vitter’s bill doesn’t specifically mention the southern border security wall, the intent of the revenue is to provide border security measures.

As far as we can tell only our analysis of the potential Mexican remittance fees have outlined the very plausible way to pay for the Mexican border wall. However, Louisiana Senator David Vitter has now presented a bill targeting the transfer of U.S. funds out of the country by illegal aliens.

Vitter has penned an Op-Ed in the Washington Times which includes two Governmental Accounting office reports – One HERE – and – Another HERE – which show the volume of removed revenue, remittances, as calculated/described by the GAO.

Representative Vitter explains his proposal thusly:

[…] My bill is simple: The business providing the service would simply require documentation of legal status. If the person wiring money is here legally, great. If he can’t prove legal status, then he gets slapped with a fee which goes directly to border security and enforcement. This would cause two separate effects, both very positive. On one side of the coin, GAO estimates that my bill could bring in up to $1 billion from illegal immigrants that would go directly towards border security and enforcement. On the flip side, the report shows it may discourage illegal immigrants from sending the money in the first place. If that dynamic occurs, it would likely lower the amount of revenue raised for border security, but illegal immigration would be strongly discouraged and the money would stay in the U.S. economy. (read more)

We have noted this exact process is already in place for remittances sent to Cuba. Anyone sending money to Cuba is required to fill out a Cuban Remittance Affidavit form, verifying who the sender is (with ID) and specifying who the recipient is.

Previously we shared a recent discovery that remittances to Mexico, from the U.S., now account for almost $25 billion annually (year 2015), and actually exceed the entire revenue generated by the Mexican Oil industry.

Yes, this means more U.S. dollars are sent to Mexico by Mexican citizens working in the U.S. than the Mexican economy generates itself internally – as measured by their energy sector GDP.

As a specific and direct consequence this means Mexico is now more economically dependent than ever on the U.S. This is the leverage candidate Donald Trump describes to get the Mexican government to pay for the Southern Border Security Wall.

If you take a more modest figure of $25 billion annually, and if the U.S. were to impose a 4% transfer fee on Mexican remittances, the revenue generated would also be $1 Billion per year. Over 10 years (budgetary timeline) that would be $10 billion, which is the currently estimated cost of the 1,000 mile wall.

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[Tennessee Nana]

a bill targeting the transfer of U.S. funds out of the country by illegal aliens.

If the person wiring money is here legally, great. If he can’t prove legal status, then he gets slapped with a fee which goes directly to border security and enforcement.
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Liz I know you will like this idea...

[Liz]

.....remittances to Mexico, from their citizens in the US, are almost $25 billion annually (year 2015)..... exceeding the entire revenue generated by the Mexican Oil industry. Means more U.S. dollars are sent to Mexico by Mexican citizens here than the Mexican economy generates itself (measured by their energy sector GDP)......

Wire transfers from Mexican citizens on the US gravy train now stand at over $25 BILLION per year... Mexico/s #1 source of revenue.

Could also involve wire fraud, US govt fraud and money laundering and tax evasion if it involves:

<><> cashing US govt checks using multiple identities.

<><> cashing EITC checks w/ falsified documents...claiming children they do not have.

<><> falsifying US documents to collect unemployment, Workmen/s Comp, SSI, Social Security, etc.

Mexico is apparently collecting billions in fees from the 144 countries gathering at their borders to slither into the US.

[Liz]

The US has poured billions of our tax dollars into dirt-poor Mexico....but it never seems to reach the problem w/re supposed to be financing.

Ever hear of the MERIDA INITIATIVE?

I didn/t think so.

WIKI-—With the Merida Initiative set to expire on September 30, 2010, the U.S. State Department (under SoS Hillary) has proposed a major renewal and expansion of the program. If approved, starting in 2011, $310 million would be granted to Mexico, another $100 million for the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), and $79 million for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).[28]

The U.S. Congress has now authorized $1.6 billion for the three-year initiative (2007–2010). The U.S. Congress approved $465 million in the first year, which includes $400 million for Mexico and $65 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

For the second year, Congress approved $300 million for Mexico and $110 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. A FY09 supplemental appropriation is providing an additional $420 million for Mexico; and $450 million for Mexico and $100 million for Central America has been requested for FY10.[20]

Only about $204 million of that, however, will be earmarked for the Mexican military for the purchase of eight used transport helicopters and two small surveillance aircraft. No weapons are included in the plan.[21][22][23]

The bill requires that $73.5 million of the $400 million for Mexico must be used for judicial reform, institution-building, human rights and rule-of-law issues.

The bill specifies that 15% of the funds will be dependent on Mexico making headway in four areas relating to human-rights issues, and on which the U.S. Secretary of State will have to report periodically to Congress.[24][25]

An additional $65 million was granted for the Central American countries (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama); the House also included Haiti and the Dominican Republic in this bill for Central America, which is a comprehensive public security package that seeks to tackle citizen insecurity in Central America by more effectively addressing criminal gangs, improving information sharing between countries, modernizing and professionalizing the police forces, expanding maritime interdiction capabilities, and reforming the judicial sector in order to restore and strengthen citizens’ confidence in those institutions.[26]

Much of the funding will never leave the United States. It will go toward the purchase of aircraft, surveillance software, and other goods and services produced by U.S. private defense contractors. While this request includes equipment and training, it does not involve any cash transfers or money to be provided directly to the Government of Mexico or its private contractors. According to U.S. State Department officials, 59% of the proposed assistance will go to civil agencies responsible for law enforcement, and 41% to operational costs for the Mexican Army and Mexican Navy.

While the initial cost for equipment and hardware that the military required is high, it is expected that future budget requests will focus increasingly on training and assistance to civil agencies.

As of November 2009, the U.S. has delivered about $214 million of the pledged $1.6 billion.[27]

[Liz]

Making Mexico pay is not far-fetched at all. Read on.

A sworn affidavit by Mexico consul general to a Texas court admits that Mexico official policy is to encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access our generous welfare system......declaring that Mexico is responsible to protect its nationals wherever they may be residing.

This explosive document filed in Texas by the government of Mexico adds fuel to the debate touched off by Donald Trump.

THE MONEY QUOTE A footnote states that Mexican nationality is granted to children born abroad of a Mexican born parent. IOW, anchor babies born in the US retain parents Mexican nationality.

A sworn affidavit by Mexicos consul general admits that Mexicos official policy is to encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access our generous welfare system......declaring that Mexico is responsible to protect its nationals wherever they may be residing.

The Mexican consuls sworn testimony asserts that: My responsibilities in this position include protecting the rights and promoting the interests of my fellow Mexican nationals, and, that the main responsibility of consulates is to provide services, assistance, and protection to nationals abroad.

Ergo, Mexicos assertion of continuing jurisdiction over its nationals abroad is inconsistent with any claim to automatic US citizenship merely by reason of birth on US soil.

[bgill]

How about arresting the illegal on the spot? Then rounding up his family including his 14 anchor babies.

[Daniel Ramsey]

I’m just itching to photoshop an image of thousands of concrete mixers heading to the border.

Bettet yet a Youetube video, shows a husband getting a kiss from his wife as he leaves for work as a mixer operator, shows that again and again from Alaska to Florida and then you see hundreds in a convoy on different interstates, different colors, different companies, all heading south. Then thousands of concrete mixer trucks.

And then you see the wall taking shape in a stop action fast forward over a period of time. And it ends when all the fathers return home and they tell their children they went and built the wall to Make America Great Again.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

What's the next move on Cruz, Don? Call Vitter.

[smoothsailing]

Wow! That would make for some great visuals. Sure hope we get to see it!

[smoothsailing]

Jeff Sessions is a good get for Trump. I expect he could be VP in a Trump admin.

[Daniel Ramsey]

[deport]

Go to your local Grocery store on Thrusday/Friday afternoon after 3pm and see them purchasing money transfers.
This may not be standard SOP in all locals but I’ve seen it happening in some.

[onyx]

T T T T ! ! ! ©

[onyx]

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions Endorses Trump:
"It Is Time To Make America Great Again"

[Liz]

Love it.

[smoothsailing]

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[Daniel Ramsey]

I really wish i had the resources to do that! And that i had video editing skills, thanks for the Trump!

See, its like this,we all know what Trump means, we need to push it harder, already Mexico is screaming bloody murder, and i suspect so are the drug cartels.

Cruz and Rubio is all talk, Donald though absolutely knows all about massive concrete projects, thats a fact.

[spokeshave]

3D printing wall components,,,

Get that wall done ahead of schedule and under budget.

[Tennessee Nana]

Nana pouts and admits her doesn’t know zactly what 3D is

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