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Mexico warns of repercussions if remittances are blocked
Los Angeles Times ^ | 05/12/2016 | Tracy Wilkinson

Posted on 05/12/2016 7:11:40 PM PDT by RayofHope

If a new U.S. administration blocks the flow of remittances -- the estimated $20 billion that Mexicans working in the U.S. send home each year -- then joint efforts to stop money laundering and other illicit forms of finance will be dealt a dangerous setback, a senior Mexican official warned Thursday.

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has vowed, if elected, to make Mexico pay to build a wall along the entire southwest border, even if it means impounding remittance payments.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: New York; Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: 2016election; aliens; election2016; immigration; mexico; newyork; trump
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"Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages"

1 posted on 05/12/2016 7:11:40 PM PDT by RayofHope
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To: RayofHope

Sounds like extortion by covering up illegal activity as punishment. Couldn’t there be a fine involved?

People not here on work visas aren’t allowed to work, as is true in every country, Mexico included. So the money is illegally obtained. There should be a tax on it leaving the country, if for no other reason that to pay for the costs of illegal aliens.

And stop calling it immigration, it’s not.


2 posted on 05/12/2016 7:15:15 PM PDT by Vic S (I am not a number; I am a free man!)
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To: RayofHope

The Mexicans sure have been threatening the Americans a lot lately. Maybe we do need a war until we can build a fence and become friendly neighbors again.


3 posted on 05/12/2016 7:18:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to TRUMP the race card in America so we can all get along again.)
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To: RayofHope

This is called blackmail.

What else do you expect from a 3rd world country? This is exactly why we need to deport the illegals.


4 posted on 05/12/2016 7:19:23 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: RayofHope

If you don’t let us continue to abuse you...

We’ll CONTINUE TO ABUSE YOU..!!!

So THERE...!


5 posted on 05/12/2016 7:20:02 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Vic S

“So the money is illegally obtained”

And if an American had that job, the money would stay here to stimulate our economy.

A win-win.


6 posted on 05/12/2016 7:20:49 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: RayofHope

Mexicos **** isn’t big enough to get into a pissing contest with Trump.

L


7 posted on 05/12/2016 7:21:50 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: RayofHope

Trump’s got great enemies. They just keep pushing people into his fold.


8 posted on 05/12/2016 7:23:01 PM PDT by dead (We have to elect him to see what's in him.)
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To: RayofHope

Hell, the front money for new northern bound dope shipments might be affecteted. Everybody wins.


9 posted on 05/12/2016 7:23:01 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: RayofHope

Suuure, bring it on, Mexico. Bring it on.


10 posted on 05/12/2016 7:24:30 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: All

Remember the Alamo?

More importantly... Remember the Battle of San Jacinto?

KMFA Neito & ex-presidente Fox.


11 posted on 05/12/2016 7:24:30 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I think Mexico is coming to the realization that the "gravy train" may be ending in the not too distant future as the Trump train rolls in!!


12 posted on 05/12/2016 7:24:30 PM PDT by RayofHope (I want to be sick of winning!)
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To: RayofHope

No! Not the Jose Cuervo Tequila imports!


13 posted on 05/12/2016 7:26:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I hope Trump reads up on President James K. Polk. Our greatest unknown President. Polk knew how to deal with Mexico.


14 posted on 05/12/2016 7:27:32 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: CottonBall

It is racist to say blackmail. From now on, the PC MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA expects to hear “mail of color.”


15 posted on 05/12/2016 7:28:41 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: RayofHope

The Gravy Train to the rest of the world’s despots will end as well.


16 posted on 05/12/2016 7:30:45 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yeah,I’ll bet. The USA is Mexico’s second largest source of revenue. They hate us ... but they SURE need us.


17 posted on 05/12/2016 7:32:51 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: RayofHope

I am not seeing a problem with stopping them from taking money out of our economic cycle


18 posted on 05/12/2016 7:35:10 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
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To: RayofHope

What are they going to do, flood us with illegals? Oh, wait ...


19 posted on 05/12/2016 7:37:18 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("He's a winner in the process of winning. People like that." Scott Adams)
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To: RayofHope

Sucks to be them...


20 posted on 05/12/2016 7:38:21 PM PDT by madison10 (#NeverHillary)
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