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.

[DakotaGator]

Do I understand from your post # 70 that you favor this type of legislation?

[longtermmemmory]

I-95W a program of convenience started and expanded in the 1990's. Canadians don't need actual proof. (only country to have a presumption of legality) It is why I said by treaty.

UK is in danger of being bumped from the program because they have not upped their machine readable passports.

[Hostage]

Yes.

[JustPiper]

I think the best new line of attack on this issue would be to concentrate on how many jobs we've lost from 'outsourcing', exporting. Focus on the companies and boycott them , email them, print out the list of 300+ companies and notify your neighborhood, friends and families.

Go to near bottom of page you will be astounded at the list!
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

[RWGuy]

I think the point is that you have to start piling up the disincentives for illegal immigration.

Right now, all the incentives are for people to "come on down." Whether it is social services, education, drivers' licenses, or whatever, it encourages more illegal immigration.

The whole system is broken on both sides of the border. There will never be an incentive to get the government to do something about it until you take the incentives out and make it less attractive to be here illegally.

At least Kaloogian is having constructive ideas, instead of promising to study it into the stone age like some unnamed candidate keeps proposing!

[tubavil]

BTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

[sarasmom]

This may come as a surprise to you, but I really dont have a problem with "outsourcing".
I think the consumer has the right of full disclosure, ie I have the right to know my bank or insurance company uses foreign workers in foreign countries to process my personal records, but other than disclosure, I dont see a problem.
I do see a major problem with illegal aliens and importing slave laborers and inventing a second-class non-citizen work force into the USA for employer labor exploitation and the subversion of the free market rules of capitolism.
Big Unions suck, because they expanded and greedily extended their original reason to exist in the first place, after the battle was won.
I think we are courting total anarchy.
Ethics and honesty are no longer considered normal,valuable and desirable traits in normal human interactions.

[lainde]

bttt

[Wonder Warthog]

"Bull."

So you think those jobs would just go begging/unfilled, eh, and that we should just let anyone in who can stagger across our borders, and security be damned???

[azhenfud]

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

Bull."

Every dollar paid to an Illegalien has to be supplemented with taxpayer funded assistance to workers,legal and illegal, whose wages don't offer basic financial support.

It's estimated that roughly 8-12 million Illegaliens COST taxpayers some $40 billion annually. That's the equivalent of YOU and ME handing THEM about $4000 a year.

[wita]

You are the first to nail it. The problem is not, I repeat, NOT illegal aliens, oops, undocumented visitors, sending money out of the country. The problem is illegal aliens, and a porous border, and the US Government that thinks it is impossible to close the holes in those borders. Until that thinking changes and hopefully before we are overrun, we will continue to wrestle with this national disgrace.

[TankerKC]

Every dollar paid to an Illegalien has to be supplemented with taxpayer funded assistance to workers,legal and illegal, whose wages don't offer basic financial support.

Every dollar? Hyperbole?

[angkor]

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

Deportations will work. Fining employers will work. Ending welfare to illegals wil work.

But inserting wire transfer companies into the middle of the problem won't, for the reasons I gave previously.

[wita]

KC = higher, faster, longer, range.
Warthog = Lower, slower, shorter range, big gun
Its a standoff, but in the arena of ideas, I'm with you on this one. Our government is allowing the mexican mafia to skim the cream off our economy, and build an empire that will ultimately crush us if we don't get a handle on it. Tongue in cheek on the mafia, but in essence that is what is happening. To give up and say they can't control the borders or those already here, is not the answer any right thinking person is looking for. No habla espanol.

[TankerKC]

So you think those jobs would just go begging/unfilled, eh, and that we should just let anyone in who can stagger across our borders, and security be damned???

Did I say that??? Your comment that, "Every dollar an illegal "earns" is directly stolen from some American citizen or LEGAL immigrant" is so wrong that the only thing that will help you is an Econ 101 class.

[VRWC_minion]

How many here wish to here what God has to say ? If some of you folks are wondering what might motivate Bush to take such an "unconservative posistion" on illegal aliens, it might be because he is following God in the matter.

Lev19:33 " 'When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. 34 The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

[Wonder Warthog]

?"Your comment that, "Every dollar an illegal "earns" is directly stolen from some American citizen or LEGAL immigrant" is so wrong that the only thing that will help you is an Econ 101 class."

ILLEGAL aliens come here and occupy jobs that WOULD be done by American citizens or LEGAL immigrants. Every dollar that goes to them in pay is a dollar that doesn't go to the other two groups. Explain to me how that isn't theft. And don't give me that crap about Americans "wouldn't do those jobs"---they would.

[azhenfud]

Exodus says to have one law for the native-born and strangers, to require of them to assimilate - or forsake their native-born ways and lands. Most Illegaliens are not interested in doing that. The Illegalien is, foremost, a law-breaker - without exception, and should be first, treated as such. One law for the native-born and the stranger....

[azhenfud]

"Hyperbole?"

I really wished it were, but the math proves otherwise....

[azhenfud]

Oh, and BTW, it's not any compassionate measure President Bush has for Illegaliens that has him proposing this garbage of "not amnesty". Compassion has very little - if anything - to do with it. It's his monitary ties with the felons who "turn a profit" by hiring and aiding Illegaliens. That's what compells him to propose something/anything that could possibly help them avoid prosecution.