No WIre Transfers FROM Illegal Aliens to Foreign Countries!

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

[TatooChick]

HOWARD KALOOGIAN’S NEW IMMIGRATION PROPOSAL:

No Wire Transfers from Illegal Aliens To Foreign Countries

(LOS ANGELES) – Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Howard Kaloogian (website: www.HowardForSenate.com) is releasing a new immigration proposal today, which is designed to remove an incentive for illegal immigration and increase national security.

When elected to the U.S. Senate, Kaloogian will introduce legislation that will require any individual who electronically transmits money to a foreign country to be in the United States legally. Before funds can be transferred to another country, the sender must establish their identity with proper identification, such as both a valid Social Security number and a driver’s license.

Eliminating Another Incentive for Illegal Immigration Into the United States.

The Kaloogian proposal will remove a current incentive for illegal immigration in the U.S. Millions of illegal immigrants who have entered this country illegally regularly wire money to friends, family members and associates in their countries of origin.

Last year more than $30 billion was sent from immigrants in the United States – many of them here illegally – to Mexico and Latin America alone. Seventy percent of these remittances are sent via wire services offered at thousands of locations throughout the United States. These remittances now comprise a significant portion of the gross domestic product of many Latin American countries. Mexican President Vincente Fox is among those who is advocating for amnesty for illegal immigrants currently in the United States so as to guarantee that these transferred funds continue to prop up the Mexican economy after years of abuse. “If we are to stem the flow of illegal immigration into this country, we have to remove the incentives that reward those who break the law. We have to provide more disincentives as a means, in addition to stricter border control, to curtail illegal immigration.”

“Just as amnesty and drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens is wrong, so too is allowing these individuals to enter this nation illegally, collect wages illegally, and then send these funds to a foreign nation.”

“The problem with amnesty, drivers licenses and taxpayer funded government services for illegal immigrants is that they reward those who break the law and enter this nation illegally. These enticements provide additional incentives for illegal immigration into the U.S.” said Kaloogian.

“The only way to reverse this avalanche of illegal immigration is to eliminate these incentives,” Kaloogian added.

One of the benefits of this new policy will be to establish leverage with leaders, such as Mexico’s Vincente Fox, who have sent a wink and a nod to their citizens to enter the United State’s illegally, collect wages that are up to ten times as high as those paid in Mexico, and then send these funds back to Mexico.

“This money is not being invested in America, expanding wealth for our own communities, but instead enriching foreign governments who have done nothing to discourage illegal immigration into the United States. In fact, they have every reason to encourage it,” said Kaloogian.

Proposal Will Help in the War on Terrorism

Kaloogian pointed out that his proposal will also help in the war on terrorism by making it more difficult for those who are in this country illegally to send money to terrorist cells and operatives outside of the country.

“Terrorists have been using networks that rely on wire transfers, couriers and overnight mail to send money home and vice versa. Osama bin Laden has boasted about the way he and his colleagues are using wire services to send money back and forth from the U.S. to operatives around the world,” said Kaloogian.

“We cannot allow terrorists to game our financial system to their advantage in their efforts to attack our nation and its people,” Kaloogian concluded.

[Missouri]

Bumping

[longtermmemmory]

Which is why banks want the transaction fees. They only need to use an atm card. Send a card to a relative and they can access the ATM machine in the "old country". It complies with notification laws.

It is really easy. Forbid the Consular Matricula ID's. They are nothing but passports which have no visa included. If you are here on anything but a true resident card, you have no reason to use anything but a passport to open a bank account. No visa, no account.

[longtermmemmory]

Unless contradicted by treaty, every non-resident alien has to have a passport, a visa, and a I-94 card (says how long they are allowed to stay pursuant to their visa). For example a B1/B2 visa can be good for 10 years but each trip can only be 3 -6 months max.

The consular matricula is an underhanded and illegal means of bypassing US/mexican treaty.

[longtermmemmory]

At the post office you need an international money order. Those orders are also reported and traceable.

Banks just wanted in on the transaction fees.

[longtermmemmory]

Will not be effecti either because a DL and Soc Sec. card is sufficient proof. Many illegals have both.

[proxy_user]

I think there are some countries from which no visa is required for a stay of less than three months, such as the UK.

[Floratina]

Beware the slippery slope. "Your papers, please" is not something one wants to hear in a free country.

Here in California, I would welcome it.

[B4Ranch]

"Last year more than $30 billion was sent from immigrants in the United States", thereby removing an approximate $210 billion from circulating in the American economy which would have been taxed seven times as it changed hands.

As our President stated that he would not give 'foreign aid to Mexico while he was in Office.

Instead he allows $210 billion to be withdrawn from our nation. I have no idea what the circulation rate on the $30 billion would be in Mexico, but I am presuming at least five times.

That results in $150 billion US dollars of foreign aid from where I sit.

[B4Ranch]

If they are sending home $30 billion, it would be reasonable to suspect the wages amounted to $60 billion. That $60 billion is dollars Americans should have been earning in wages, not aliens.

If Ted Kennedy and President Bush don't each receive 50 million Christmas cards and Thank you cards every year that will give us Americans where their sense of appreciation lies.

[Hostage]

Try wiring money now to a ***foreign*** country. You will be asked for ID and if you don't provide it you will not be allowed to wire.

Look up Thomas foreign exchange and wire service in your yellow pages, go to one of their kiosks and ask them what is required to wire funds to a foreign country. You can telephone and ask just as easily.

Those that say someone will always find a way around these types of measures are correct to a point but the risk-reward ratio increases and makes it more difficult to function. That is the goal, to make life difficult for those that enter illegally.

Those that say others will act as surrogates to wire money are also correct but think about it. The fee taken to wire money illegally will be irritating to the illegal person. And if the person wiring on behalf of an illegal is informed for example by posted placards of criminal penalties associated with such money wires, the risk-reward ratio will increase further.

These kinds of measures are easy to implement by law because businesses can easily be checked or tested to see if they are complying. As stated before, many business such as Thomas FX do this already.

[Hostage]

So American should just throw in the towel? Nothing will ever work?

[Cultural Jihad]

Note to self: Vote for someone other than loony, control-freak busy-bodies such as Howard Kaloogian.

[pointsal]

Time to send a check Howard Kaloogian.

[Hostage]

I've been advocating this measure of stopping money outflow for the last few weeks on FR.

I wired funds to Sweden recently and was asked for ID and they made a copy of it and attached it to their transaction slip.

I don't want government intrusion either, I don't even want an IRS. But wired money going out of the country? I think it's fair game.

When I go abroad I have to declare cash if it exceeds $10,000. It seems these restrictions have a long history intertwined with U.S. Tariff law. I don't see why it would be objectionable to anyone.

[MissAmericanPie]

Smart man with vision, when is he due to hit the Senate?

[TankerKC]

Every dollar an illegal "earns" is directly stolen from some American citizen or LEGAL immigrant.

Bull.

[sixmil]

Great idea. Even if it fails to stem illegal immigration, it will still keep money here, almost like a boost in tourism. (Just waiting for the unilateral free traders to tell us that tourism is bad, and we'd be better off if everyone vacationed outside the US)

[Amerigomag]

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.

We do it all the time, without a hassle.

Whether we use PayPal or BidPay or even our credit card US citizens "wire transfer" internationally frequently when purchasing on eBay. I do so about 2 to 3 times per year.

Of course I have to prove who I am to qualify for a credit card but its not that big a hassle.

[janetgreen]

I'm in CA too, and asking for papers wouldn't help, because all the illegals have false documents (for sale on street corners). They're going to have to go for the employers who hire slave labor and stop the welfare state for illegals. If jobs dry up and they can't collect all the freebies, maybe they'll head for home.

[MilspecRob]

How about attaching the assets of the Wal-Mart's that PAY the illegals. Lets just sell off the all the car wash's & grab the homes of people that employ landscapers. More money in that
Kaloogian is a digit