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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on March 31, 2017, 08:23:16 AM
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A bill to tax illegal immigrants to fund the construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall was introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL).
The legislation known as the “Border Wall Funding Act of 2017” would impose a 2 percent tax on all remittances going back to Mexico from illegal and some legal immigrants living in the U.S. to pay for the estimated $12 billion border wall.
“President Trump has made it very clear that he intends to complete a wall along our Southern border,” Rogers said in a news release. “As a senior member of the Homeland Security committee, I have long supported the border wall, which will protect Americans.”
As the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has noted in the past, an estimated $54.2 billion is sent back to the home countries of illegal and legal immigrants living in the U.S. In 2014 alone, $24 billion was sent from the U.S. to Mexico in remittances, leaving that money entirely lost on the U.S. economy.
Meanwhile, South and Central American countries like Guatemala and El Salvador took in more than 15 percent of their overall growth domestic products (GDPs) in remittances from illegal and legal immigrants in the U.S.
Rogers said his legislation is “simple,” saying in a statement that “anyone who sends their money to countries that benefit from our porous borders and illegal immigration should be responsible for providing some of the funds needed to complete the wall.”
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/03/30/congress-mulls-illegal-immigrant-tax-fund-border-wall/
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7 years ago - 2010
Remittance-Senders (Mostly Illegals) Ship $25 Billion a Year Out of the U.S.
Often illegals are separated from their families but remain supportive of them back in the homeland. Similarly, many nonimmigrant workers have jobs here but relatives abroad. Both groups send substantial remittances to their distant families – probably as much as $25 billion a year, and this money is almost totally lost to the American economy.
Thus, if we are to improve the American economy for legal residents, we have three reasons for restricting the role of illegal aliens:
a. they have no lawful right to be here;
b. they are depressing wages, particularly for low-skilled legal residents; and
c. they are shipping money out of the country.
http://cis.org/north/remittances-iadb
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Looks like a good way for Mexico to PAY FOR THE WALL.
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Looks like a good way for Mexico to PAY FOR THE WALL.
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Another super easy fix would be a reward of $500 for each illegal alien successfully deported. It is actually doable now that a democrat is not the POTUS, and the entire nation is enraged by the invasion from Mexico.
simple, simple, simple ..