Money is better leverage than even military power.
LOL. It was a joke.
Mexico has been screwing us for quite a while. It’s time to return their favors.
As someone here pointed out mere moments ago.. Trump just won New Hampshire, and got Fox News etc to pay for his campaign.
directing law enforcement to direct resources and vigorous attention to impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages.
And how exactly would the source of the money be detected at the point of transfer? Silly, utterly clickbaity article.
The threat of dumping somewhere between 11 million and more likely 40 million illegals back to Mexico is enough for Mexico to agree to pay for the fence. Their economy could not take that many being repatriated back to Mexico.
1) How are you going to track electronic transactions? Alberto Paypals a gift to a service in Canada, with routing information to a relative in Mexico. I guarantee you such services will spring up overnight, they can take a small processing fee for the transaction. Are we going to monitor all PayPal transactions?
2) You really think The Donald has the political stamina to deport tens of millions of people? I don’t, not for a second.
Do those things and illegal aliens will deport themselves and pay for the trip. Motivation is a powerful force.
Anyone living in an area where these people are working can go their local grocery on pay day
and go to the counter where these type transactions are done and look at the many there with
their paychecks. Usually it is mid afternoons onward on Thursday or Friday.
The dollar amount amazes me but it’s an ongoing event each week.
The REAL reason El Guapo Calderone and El Chapito Vicente Fox want illegals here. And maybe Jorge el Segundo and el Primero got cuts!!!!
It was my understanding that the remittances would be permitted to go through minus a “fee” collected by the transmitting agency. Those are the funds that would pay for the wall. I could be wrong, but I think I read that somewhere.
Carlos Slim owns the telecommunications monopoly for Mexico and he charges very high fees for calls coming in from the U.S., making him one of, if not the richest man in the world.
Trump isn’t considering doing anything to illegal and legal immigrants that Mexican citizens aren’t already doing to them.
Making a deal with Mexico to not do that if they agree to certain terms and conditions (such as working on wall construction) carries with it an admission that weâre not going to enforce the law or pay attention to illegals currently in the countryWhose wet dream is that? I've never heard anyone say anything serious about using Mexican labor.
The US unions would never stand for it anyway.
Mexicans are hard workers but their overall craftsmanship leaves a lot to be desired.
There are endless of ways for Mexico to pay for it and really never know they are paying for it and probably not all at once. At least until they look at their balance of trade after the first year of a Trump presidency. The Donald will probably have someone on his staff adding and subtracting entries in a secret spreadsheet until they get to the magic $8 billion. Then He’ll have a press conference holding up the chart.
“Remittances sent home by Mexicans working outside the country...”
Could be their welfare checks, etc, also. They are a huge drain on taxpayers.
Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 12:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST, 2/10/16:
St. John's University student threatens to smash woman's laptop featuring Donald Trump sticker.
Live Stream: Donald Trump Rally at Clemson University (2-10-16)@ 7 PM
Dear Mexico: you might wind up paying for that wall after all
Bush super PAC is pouring $1.7 million more into South Carolina (Delays VA GA OK TN TX MI ID ad buy)
Obama/Trump Back Russian Invasion of Syria
Trump Says He'll Change as President [Limbaugh]
Nuclear Option: Donald Trump Built a Juggernaut and Had the Media Pay for It
Fiorina drops out [her FB]
Establishment Declares Jeb Bush Is Making a Comeback After He Spent $36 Million for 4th Place [PJ Media]
Bloomberg vs. Trump?
Gowdy: Trump Tapped Into Anger,But "Marco Is Our Best Chance To Win"
Beyond the Silencing of Conservatives [Accuracy in Academia]
Republican Delegate Allocation Rules by State (2016)
Actually, it really is a rebellion [Jim Robinson]
Time's Joe Klein: Trump Supporters 'a Real Threat to This Country'
Republicans Can Get More Black Votes [Star Parker]
Cruz: New Hampshire, Iowa Show Only I Can Beat Trump
Ted Cruz just might be the biggest winner of the N.H. GOP primary in the long run
Don't sleep on Ted Cruz. The next five weeks look very, very good for him. [WaPo]
Donald Trump on N.H. victory, North Korea threat [CBS This Morning]
Election 2016 -- Republican / Democratic Delegate Count [RCP]
GOP Shatters it's Turnout Record: Democrats Lag Behind [Wash Times]
How Trump can quiet Rubio and Cruz with these three words... [vanity]
Trump will be fighting an old foe: The lure of something-for-nothing that Democrats love
How New Hampshire turned into a nightmare for the Republican establishment [WaPo]
NH: GOP Establishment Spends 20X Per Vote as Trump/Cruz
Analysis: Texas, Uncharacteristically, is an Early Primary State [vote in 8 days, before SC]
Trump Thumps Merkel on Migrant Madness: 'It's the End of Europe'
VIDEO - Trump Supporters 'Diamond and Silk' Celebrate Trump's Big NH Win - "All Aboard!"
Trump knows leverage. A 10% surcharge, made payable to “The Wall” fund ought to do the trick. Now they may want to send cash via post, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Lots of mail gets lost ya know.
95 percent of that money is untaxed income from people working here illegally. I think that ought to cover the wall that will keep them in Mexico when we send them back.
Isn’t the simple solution to impose a X% tax on imports, and earmark the money for construction for the wall?
Build the stupid wall Mexico...!!! It will be a lot cheaper than fighting Bull Dog Trump!