No WIre Transfers FROM Illegal Aliens to Foreign Countries!

Howard for Senate ^ | 2/18/04 | Howard Kaloogian

[Revolting cat!]

This Howard Kaloogian, if that's his real name, sounds like an illegal alien himself! Has anyone checked his ID?

[heleny]

legal people will start taking fees to wire money on behalf of others.

Exactly. It's more important to remove real incentives (like free social services) than to stop them from directly sending back money they earned while working here illegally.

[hosepipe]

Hmmm.. an immigrant holding cash presents several interesting prospects to larcenous types and makes it dangerous to be a walking piggy bank... not a bad idea except that... the murder rate would increase substantial with 10 to 20 million or more of them here.. attracking the attention American parasitical perps would be the down side of this..

[PJ-Comix]

Dumb idea. I hope this Howard Whacko is NOT nominated.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Yeah, and lets do the same for drugs, tax evasion and staying up late on week days. Welcome to 1984."

Actually, there is far more justification for asset forfeiture in the case of illegal immigrants than for any of the "crimes" you mention. Every dollar an illegal "earns" is directly stolen from some American citizen or LEGAL immigrant.

[stevie_d_64]

(Humble; very interesting ping!)

(Rodney K, Not exactly...)

What it may do is identify points of origin (those storefronts) that are violating the law...Thats where you start coming down on them...

Like you, I do agree that all of this will be hard to enforce...Then again, when has there been a real push to take care of the dynamics of this problem/issue in the first place...

If anything I like what the mere proposal of a law like this does...

Its like that arcade games that have the little gophers spring up for you to try and hit them on the head with the mallet...They don't stay up too long before you lose your chance to bop them...Whats fun is to see who exactly are the ones that pop up real quick then duck before too much attention gets paid to them...

The foreign "gophers" tend to stay up above radar a little longer than the domestic ones...They do it with impunity...

Those are your government officials, border pimps, and others that directly benefit from these tranfers...

I think its easy to write a law like this...

But like you say its going to be hard to enforce...Unless you really write it up and implement it correctly and swiftly, not allowing the people who would attempt to adjust to the law a chance to exploit any loopholes or other avenues that you may not have foreseen...

But this is just my opinion...

Later,
Steve

[PJ-Comix]

Change this guy's name slightly to Kalooneygan.

[azhenfud]

"What a novel concept. We remove the financial incentive."

Follw the money!!!!!

How about "Follow the Law"?
I'd love to see a nationwide newspaper ad campaign begun that publishes a list of names of the felon corporations/individuals that hire/aid Illegaliens, incident particulars, and the suspect Illegalien's "name". If there were a local "private collection agency" that citizens could report particulars to and that agency published those suspect felons' names and reported the same to the district USBICS, another "incentive" to Illegaliens would quickly diminish.

However, the ignorant public has to be educated of the harm Illegaliens and felons who aid them are doing to America and how important it is that they help reduce the problem now....

[JimRed]

That means that if I wish to use wire transfer to pay for goods or sevices obtained from a foreign country, I have to prove who I am? I'm not real fond of that idea.

[dljordan]

Man! They're going to jump on this proposal like a Duck on a June bug. He's going to have the Pubbies and the Rats, plus the pro-illegal groups all over him. The Mexican government will probably send a hit squad out after him. I love it!

[mass55th]

How hard would it be for them to have someone who's a legal alien or a citizen wire it for them? It just seems that there would be so many ways they could get around this, and it would be very hard to enforce. PayPal allows individuals to register Mexican bank accounts, and the U.S. Postal Service offers International Postal Money Orders (for up to $700) which can be sent to Mexico. If one avenue of sending money back home is eliminated or reduced, they'll just find another way to get it there.

[PJ-Comix]

Is this Kalooneygan clown actually nominated or is he just a whacko yelling in the wilderness? What a moron. Look, any alien, whether legal or illegal can simply wire transfer money by giving it to somebody legal at the payment center. It as like when I was a teenager and gave money to adults outside the liquor store to buy me some booze. And this mental case is basing a Senate campaign on this IDIOTIC idea?

[Rodney King]

But like you say its going to be hard to enforce...Unless you really write it up and implement it correctly and swiftly, not allowing the people who would attempt to adjust to the law a chance to exploit any loopholes or other avenues that you may not have foreseen...

My concern is not so much that it will be hard to enforce, but rather that there will be no will to enforce it. I don't think its that hard to enforce our current immigration laws. There is just no will to do it.

From there, I view this like I do gun regulations. Don't start telling me that we need new laws to address a problem that the old laws address just fine if they were only enforced. It's not that I don't like the intent of this, its just that laws that are unenforced only affect the law abiding.

[EggsAckley]

I employ a Mexican man, with a green card, who pays taxes and all, and does NOT suck off the government, and MUST send some of his money home to his ailing parents in Mexico City. I see nothing wrong with that. It's HIS money after all, and he IS paying his own way, as well as supporting a number of others who work for him.

Maybe I'm wrong about this. Dunno.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It makes too much sense. They will never do it.

[angkor]

I like the concept. But the impact on law-abiding citizens needs to be carefully researched.

1) No one in American is required to carry proof of citizenship or legal residency.

2) SSNs can be made up on the spot, and money transmitters have no way to validate them.

3) Taxing money transfers would create black market opporunities for ethnic criminal organizations.

So it sounds good on the surface, but like all things immigration won't work without a national ID, which most oppose and is impractical in its own right.

[dljordan]

I hate to break it to you but if you get a visit from the mighty drug warriors or the IRS chances are you're going to lose anything they take a liking to. Especially your bank accounts, cars, toys, etc. They'll shoot your pets, smack your wife and take your kids. It's been 1984 for years.

[Blood of Tyrants]

That person would be guilty of money laundering. Besides making a lot of transfers OUGHT to raise a red flag anyway.

[FreeInWV]

Nothing will happen. Illegal aliens make up too large of a voting blok, or potenial voing blok. No politician wants to come down on them. If they were really serious, just make it a serious federal felony to employ illegal aliens. Voila - problem solved.

[FreeInWV]

I forgot to mention the mandatory minimum sentence, and reward fee for turning someone in(just like the epa does for turning in a polluter).