You beat me to it, exactly what I was going to post.
I’ve been going through this thread wondering...what are you people thinking? Why bother with the stores some of them shop? Go to the Western Union outlet and grab them and their money BEFORE it leaves the country. That’s where they go before they even think about the retail stores you’re naming. You’ll also get a lot more of them. The grocery stores are the only store you can catch everyone. But they’ve already been to Western Union.
I watched them when I was in Louisiana, the place I paid utility bills. I had to stay away on Friday, the line was always at least 15 deep, took forever. The girl who worked there said it was uncommon to see less than $100 at a time go to Mexico. They would line up at the Western Union window while their fat wives would push a cart through the store and pile it up. (Western Union was in the customer service window at a grocery store along with bill pay for most utilities)
Wait for them at Western Union, then hit the companies they work for. It’s already illegal, no new laws needed, I’d have to look it up, but I think the company that hires illegals can be fined $10,000 per person. I may be wrong, it’s been a while and I’ve slept since then...It may be $1000 per day...anyway it’s not a small change fine.
Anyway, start doing both, and give it a few weeks for them to let their family and friends at home know about it, and watch the inflow drop to a trickle in no time. Bad news travels fast...just the mass deportations will help a lot, word will filter down to their countries pretty quick.
Also start seriously fining sanctuary cities. I like the idea of fining churches, but I’m not sure if it would be possible, churches have a tradition of helping refugees or those who claim asylum for many, many years, since before the US existed. Churches helped escaped slaves before Lincoln freed them. Churches have helped refugees all over the world for hundreds of years. Granted, most of them were legitimate refugees, not the idiots gaming our system now, but churches can hide behind that precedent.
The countries they come from have already taken a financial hit, President Trump stopped all foreign aid to them not long ago. That is part of the reason Mexico started helping at least a little. They only had to see the threat of tariffs, he had already shown he wasn’t kidding. Other countries will start to help too, soon as they start to feel the economic crunch, their foreign aid money has been shut off.
That is probably what will make the most difference, politicians sit up and take notice when the money dries up. Little else gets their attention as fast as money, or lack of it...
That’s why cutting off the Western Union connection will really hurt, the illegal immigrants in this country are sending billions south every year. Grab them for deportation when they show up, and implement at least a 30% fee on all money transfers.
“Go to the Western Union outlet and grab them and their money BEFORE it leaves the country.”
PP, the cold hard fact of the matter is that if “they” wanted to really stop illegal immigration, there are any number of effective measures that can be taken under current law to stem the flow of money out of our country to the countries to the south of us. But It’s my believe that to do so would anger those who fund their campaigns. It’s really a simple process to also disrupt the Deep State, an example of which is the recent wholesale move of a sub department within the Department of Agriculture from DC to the hinterlands where farming actually takes place. Trump is a disrupter, he’s just not disrupting nearly enough of the establishment. I only hope that he’s reelected and not having another election to face, he goes balls out everywhere!