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Trump proposes funding wall by cutting off remittances
Associated Press ^ | Apr 5, 2016 10:12 AM EDT

Posted on 04/05/2016 7:16:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Donald Trump would force Mexico to pay for a border wall by threatening to cut off billions of dollars in remittances sent by immigrants living in the U.S., according to a memo released by his campaign Tuesday.

The memo outlines how Trump would try to compel Mexico to pay for a 1,000-mile wall if he becomes president.

In his proposal, Trump threatened to change a rule under the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism law, to cut off funds sent to Mexico through money transfers known as remittances. Trump said he would withdraw the threat if Mexico makes “a one-time payment of $5-10 billion” to finance the wall. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderwall; remittances; trump
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To: Olog-hai

So he finally said it out loud.

This is actually nor making Mexico pay for it.


21 posted on 04/05/2016 7:32:20 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
If you Trump wanted the wall built by America, then tax remittances.

If you want Mexico to build the wall, threats to seriously tax or cut off remittances is a better way.

22 posted on 04/05/2016 7:34:28 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
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To: Olog-hai
Wouldn't Congress have to vote on any changes to the Patriot Act that included cutting off remittances?

If so, this threat would be meaningless....

23 posted on 04/05/2016 7:34:31 AM PDT by TXSearcher (The anti-RINO rebellion is being won by a NY RINO.......truth IS stranger than fiction.)
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To: RC one
We could save billions by cutting off sanctuary cities too and then use all the savings to pay for the wall and the deportations.

Yep, not a dime in ANY Fed funds to sanctuary cities.

24 posted on 04/05/2016 7:37:37 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: rdcbn

Trump does not want Mexico to build the wall it would have secret tunnels built in. LOL!


25 posted on 04/05/2016 7:39:09 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
You're talking about the legal optics.

The POLITICAL optics are entirely different. :)

26 posted on 04/05/2016 7:42:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

IOW there is more than one way to fund a wall.

everyone who said “can’t” was either lying or not thinking.


27 posted on 04/05/2016 7:46:17 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

It could be done easy by replacing the relevant Govt agencies involved heads and staff. Start enforcing existing law. Nothing new is needed to do that.


28 posted on 04/05/2016 7:46:27 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Attend a Trump Rally and get to "Punch a Commie for Mommy.")
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Though I like taxing them, or cutting them off completely I don’t think either will be an effective way to generate revenue.

The money will either stay here (good) or be transferred another way. Like offshore accounts.

Drug money makes its way south of the border all the time.


29 posted on 04/05/2016 7:46:35 AM PDT by Outlaw76 (Conservative, Showman, Rino. Make your choice wisely.)
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To: Olog-hai

We should not stop with just funding the wall, we should tax Mexico to offset some of the costs of repatriating Mexicans who don’t leave on their own, cost of catching illegals, etc. As the numbers of illegals drop, the tax should drop.


30 posted on 04/05/2016 7:49:05 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Mechanicos
It could be done easy by replacing the relevant Govt agencies involved heads and staff. Start enforcing existing law. Nothing new is needed to do that.

What "existing law" authorizes the President to simply grab billions of dollars from money people are sending to Mexico?

Executive orders and regulations aren't magically powerful, though they sometimes seem that way. That's why Obama was shot down on his immigration bill, and on his air regs. His actions lacked proper statutory basis. There's nothing even remotely close for this.

31 posted on 04/05/2016 7:50:51 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Outlaw76

Something like 40% of Mexico’s GDP is from remittances. The average illegal has no good way to get the money back to Mexico except for Western Union. That’s what they know. So now the grocery store will take out the remittance tax and it goes in the wall fund. Voila’


32 posted on 04/05/2016 7:52:04 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: TXSearcher
Wouldn't Congress have to vote on any changes to the Patriot Act that included cutting off remittances?

Yes, because there is no way in Hades any judge with half a brain would find that taxing remittances to Mexico is within the powers contemplated by the Patriot Act. Zero chance this happens.

33 posted on 04/05/2016 7:53:47 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Tons of it. Seriously you have not seen how they grab OUR money very easy now...


34 posted on 04/05/2016 7:54:55 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Attend a Trump Rally and get to "Punch a Commie for Mommy.")
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To: 4rcane
Its only proper that Mexico pay half the cost of the wall since we share the same border.

What percentage of Mexico's economy is suffering by being remitted to the USA?

I would use that figure as a starting point for who pays how much for any wall.

35 posted on 04/05/2016 7:56:00 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Something like 40% of Mexico’s GDP is from remittances.

Mexico's GDP is a bit over $1.26 trillion dollars. Remittances are far less than 40% of that.

36 posted on 04/05/2016 7:58:22 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: 4rcane

Bingo. This is the opening bid in a negotiation. He’s asking for way more than he expects to get. By the time it’s negotiated down to taxing remittances, that will seem like a great middle-of-the-road compromise. Meanwhile, taxing remittances is what Trump has planned all along.

I would also suggest we stop foreign aid to Mexico, which is over $500 million a year. Most of it end up in the hands of the corrupt kleptocracy anyway.


37 posted on 04/05/2016 7:59:28 AM PDT by LNV
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Trump often talk about smoothing the lumps when bargaining. This is what it means. You don’t achieve the same result without going hard on them. This could embarrass Mexico if they simply demand them hand over $10billion. If you couch the deal as a mutual agreement to build a wall between friends, you could achieve the same result


38 posted on 04/05/2016 8:00:44 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Lower Deck

$24.8 billion last year which is more than they got from oil. 10% of that would be $2.4 billion so in 5 years the wall is paid for. I like it.


39 posted on 04/05/2016 8:07:26 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: InterceptPoint

No? How exactly will Mexico deny the American government their ability to tax or even confiscate money transfers from the U.S. to Mexico? They can’t

Mexico receives over $30 billion a year in remittance from illegal aliens alone. They also receive aid packages totaling over $50 billion a year. That is money the Federal Government grants them. There is no reason what so ever that we can not and should not eliminate that aid AND tax the remittance to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars that Mexican foreign nationals cost our country by simply being here illegally.

Enough of this nonsense that ‘we can’t do that!’ Of course we can. It is our country. We can do any damn thing we want to do.

Congress will fund the wall by taxing either the remittances or reducing, or better yet, eliminating the entire foreign aid program for Mexico.


40 posted on 04/05/2016 8:10:03 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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