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First off, I truly believe that we need to cut foreign aid to Mexico and divert this money to the wall instead. This will also increase pressure on Mexico to stop their illegals and illegals from other countries from coming toward our border. Aid to the Central American countries whose citizens are in the caravan should also be cut.
Additionally, we need to be charging VERY high taxes on money wiretransfers/remittances sent to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This is how most illegal immigrants send money back to their home countries. This will be punishign the illegals directly. This will be a good idea regardless since we need to discourage people from sending money out of the US as we want this money to be kept here.
Additionally, we need to be charging VERY high taxes on money wiretransfers/remittances sent to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This is how most illegal immigrants send money back to their home countries. This will be punishign the illegals directly. This will be a good idea regardless since we need to discourage people from sending money out of the US as we want this money to be kept here.
A high rate encourages smuggling. A low rate won't make it worthwhile to smuggle. 5% would give the government a lot of money, but wouldn't cover smuggling expenses.
First off, I truly believe that we need to cut foreign aid to Mexico and divert this money to the wall instead. This will also increase pressure on Mexico to stop their illegals and illegals from other countries from coming toward our border. Aid to the Central American countries whose citizens are in the caravan should also be cut.
Additionally, we need to be charging VERY high taxes on money wiretransfers/remittances sent to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This is how most illegal immigrants send money back to their home countries. This will be punishign the illegals directly. This will be a good idea regardless since we need to discourage people from sending money out of the US as we want this money to be kept here.
Additionally, we need to be charging VERY high taxes on money wiretransfers/remittances sent to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This is how most illegal immigrants send money back to their home countries. This will be punishign the illegals directly. This will be a good idea regardless since we need to discourage people from sending money out of the US as we want this money to be kept here.
It will also punish Americans and US businesses which means you'd be making Americans pay for it. The aid (anti drug efforts) to Mexico serves our purposes, so that would punish us more than them.
People approaching the border to ask for asylum are not doing anything illegal. Thanks for playing.
In theory, no. However, most of them don't have a viable reason to claim asylum and that's what needs to be addressed. Only a small percentage of asylum seekers get approved because of bogus claims. We need to take another approach that doesn't allow them into our country before their cases are reviewed. The way things are we either give them a court date and then they are released into our society never to be seen again or we have to detain them for months until their cases are reviewed. This places a tremendous burden on us for having to pay for their upkeep and our detention centers are full. There are 750,000 back log cases that have yet to be heard.
It will also punish Americans and US businesses which means you'd be making Americans pay for it. The aid (anti drug efforts) to Mexico serves our purposes, so that would punish us more than them.
It doesn't punish most Americans or businesses, just the ones with ties to illegals. Pouring money into 3rd world shtholes has never returned more than pennies on the dollar, at best. I don't think he was talking about anti-drug efforts but economic development aid.
It doesn't punish most Americans or businesses, just the ones with ties to illegals. Pouring money into 3rd world shtholes has never returned more than pennies on the dollar, at best. I don't think he was talking about anti-drug efforts but economic development aid.
How would it not punish Americans and US businesses who send money South of the border?
Practically all US aid to Mexico is related to anti-narco efforts.
How would it not punish Americans and US businesses who send money South of the border?
Practically all US aid to Mexico is related to anti-narco efforts.
I said it doesn't punish most Americans or businesses, just the ones with ties to illegals. I don't care if it hurts the ones with ties to America. These "Americans" are immigrants, mostly illegal. Remittances applies to individuals not businesses. A tax on remittances has nothing to do with international commerce.
Remittances are the unspoken foreign aid that amounts to tens of billions per year. Last year, $25 billion to Mexico alone. If that isn't enough to make things better there and make the people want to stay there, adding another $billion out of the US Treasury isn't going to. Remittances are nothing but a direct drain of money from our economy for which we get nothing in return.
The recently promised $4.9 billion aid to Mexico is about economic development and has nothing to do with drug enforcement.
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