Ban on wire transfers by illegals proposed

WorldNetDaily ^ | 03/06/2006 | James Lambert

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INVASION USA

Ban on wire transfers by illegals proposed
Supporters believe it will remove major incentive for crossing border

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Posted: March 6, 2006 2:32 p.m. Eastern

James L. Lambert © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A Republican candidate for a vacated congressional seat in southern California is proposing a ban on wire transfers by illegal aliens from the U.S. to Mexico.

The plan "will remove a major incentive for illegal immigration and increase national security," said Howard Kaloogian, a well-known California activist who launched the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis.

Kaloogian is the front-runner for the San Diego-area congressional seat held by Republican Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who was sentenced last week to eight years in prison on corruption charges.

Howard Kaloogian

"[T]he Mexican government is making billions of dollars every year from illegal aliens who enter the U.S. illegally and then wire that money back to their families in Mexico," Kaloogian said Saturday at a news conference at the border.

The economy, he contended, bears the cost of illegal aliens, who pay no taxes but receive taxpayer-funded services.

"It's absurd that we continue to allow those who have broken the law by entering this nation illegally to then enjoy the benefit of collecting wages illegally and then sending those funds to a foreign nation," Kaloogian said.

Howard Kaloogian at the Mexican border Saturday.

The proposal, if adopted by Congress, would require anyone wiring money to Mexico to provide identification to financial institutions or wire-transfer operators to prove citizenship.

An estimated $15 to $20 billion is moved annually from the U.S. to Mexico through private-party wire transfers. Howard Kaloogian at Mexican border Saturday

Kaloogian said past legislative proposals involving transfers by illegal aliens merely have imposed an extra fee.

The new proposal, he argued, "will establish leverage with foreign leaders such as Mexico's Vicente Fox who has sent a wink and a nod to their citizens to enter the United States illegally, collect wages that ad up to 10 times those paid in Mexico and then send those funds back to Mexico."

Claudia Garcia de Spencer, spokeswoman for the San Diego chapter of the Minutemen volunteer border patrol, spoke at the news conference in support of the proposal.

"Four and a half years after 9-11, our federal and state officials still refuse to confront threats allowing our borders to be breached thousands of times each day by foreigners," she said. "As a new citizen who followed the procedures and obeyed the rules, this (illegal immigration) is a shocking affront to me and is a slap in the face to all loyal Americans."

Kaloogian was a California state assemblyman from 1994 to 2000. He helped launch the pro-troops organization Move America Forward. His candidacy has received a variety of endorsements, including support from Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, publisher of Forbes magazine.

A special election for Cunningham's congressional seat is scheduled April 11. If no candidate receives a 50 percent majority, run-off will take place between the expected Democrat candidate Carolyn [sic] Busby and the top Republican vote-getter.

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[afnamvet]

I do not support Kaloogian's proposal. Securing the borders must be our first priority. Build the fence now to stop the invasion. Once the borders are secured and functional then address the untaxed, illegal money flow south. Enforcement of current immigration laws would greatly lessen the flow of that money....employers of illegals, etc.

[potlatch]

LOL, Bagdad Bob the standup comedian!

B.B. quotes;
"They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind."

"We have destroyed 50 tanks today. That 5-ohhh tanks" [while holding up his fingers]

[LibertarianInExile]

As I posted on another thread on a similar concept in Georgia, this is just like government to sneak in under the guise of 'doing something' about a problem it created with socialist policies.

I was initially for this, but then I realized that the solution of the problem is not submerging further underground millions of illegals. It's to get them the hell out. If lawmakers know that the illegals are using these places, WTF is stopping them from having cops stop in and check documents on Fridays at Western Unions, or for that matter, hospital emergency rooms where the illegals congregate to get their free medical care? And WTF is stopping them from taking advantage of student-teacher night to ask for tips on which parents are illegals, too, and getting the illegals deported without putting more onus on private wire-transfer services?

We know the answer to that, of course--the legislators wouldn't get police endorsements if they made cops do their !#@$!!$# jobs. And why would they have anyone in government do their jobs when they can get the private sector to assume the costs? It's a wonderful way to transfer the burden of policing illegals further onto the private sector instead of having the government do what it's already taxing us to do.

[stopem]

Hey Nay Sayers......they are attempting to take away LEGAL ways for these insurgents to give away OUR money. It is more than a start in the right direction. Whenever we can get any politicians attention on a seriously grave matter and get them to act in the right direction it's an accomplishment lately.

Applaud the good guys for NOT giving away the farm the way most in Washington are prone to do.

[old republic]

I think that the idea behind this legislation has merit, but I am concerned about a few loopholes that I don't think that this legislation addresses. First, what is to stop the illegal aliens from having anchor babies in the US which are under current practice considered citizens of the US from transferring money for their parents? Can the illegals give their money to their underage children or anyother US citizen and have them wire transfer the money for them?

I think that the best way to do this is just require that you be legally here in order to work. If employers are highering illegal immigrants then that is the issue that needs to be addressed. After all if illegal immigrants are not making money in the first place, then they won't be able to wire transfer it.