Trump made a major campaign promise on the Wall,
it was very popular here.
Many said he was lying at the time including Obama, now its time for him to prove he wasn't rather than tell congress to take the hit for more deficits or taxes.
Donald Trump announced Tuesday he would use a federal anti-terrorism surveillance law as a tool to force Mexico to pay for the border wall he has pledged to build on the U.S.’s southern border.
Trump outlined the steps his administration would undertake to compel Mexico to pay the U.S. “$5-10 billion” to fund a border wall in a memo his campaign released Tuesday morning — a plan that relies largely on threatening to bar undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States from wiring money to relatives in Mexico.
Using a broad interpretation of the post-9/11 USA Patriot Act, Trump writes in the memo that he would threaten to issue new regulations that would compel money transfer companies like Western Union to verify a client's identity and legal status before authorizing a wire transfer
Donald Trump outlines plan to get Mexico to pay for border wall( By Jeremy Diamond, CNN April 5, 2016)
And he will honor that pledge. He needs seed money to start the wall. If Trump is successful in tapping other sources of funding from Mexico to pay for the wall, how does that put the taxpayer on the hook? And the reality is that illegal immigration is costing the taxpayers more than $130 billion a year just in healthcare, education, and incarceration. Even if the wall cost $50 billion, its costs will be amortized in less than a year.
Moreover, there are other ways to get the money, i.e., a surcharge on US visas for Mexicans to build the wall. We have issued over 4 million Border Crossing Cards (BCCs) to Mexicans who commute almost daily to the US. There are millions of other visas issued to Mexicans every year. And then there are $27 billion in remittances sent to Mexico every year.