Posted on 04/06/2016 12:02:23 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Tuesday applauded Donald Trump’s suggestion that the United States force Mexico to pay for a wall along its border by threatening to block remittances sent by undocumented immigrants to their families back home.
“I suspect that a good chunk of that is laundered drug money,” the Iowa representative said in a Newsmax interview.
King is an immigration hardliner infamous for his 2013 claim that undocumented immigrants have “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” Even though King serves as the national co-chair for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)’s presidential campaign, he expressed support for Trump’s border wall proposal.
“I’d like to see Donald Trump go a little further with this dialogue,” King said in the Newsmax interview, insisting that remittances sent from the U.S. are “flowing back to fund the drug cartels.”
Trump laid out his controversial proposal to fund a border wall in a Tuesday memo published in the Washington Post. The plan involves implementing a new rule under the Patriot Act that would require proof of legal residence in the U.S. in order to send a wire transfer, though Trump noted that if Mexico paid $5-10 billion to construct the wall, he wouldn’t move forward with that rule.
Like King, Trump highlighted the supposed criminality of Mexican immigrants, claiming that Mexican gangs and drug cartels take advantage of “our open borders.”
Mexico’s central bank reported that the country received nearly $24.8 billion in remittances in 2015, according to NBC. That number includes the total sum sent from all foreign countries, and it is unclear how much of it is sent by undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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This implies that the illegals will be allowed to remain in the US to continue sending money back home.
Put a fifty per cent tax on it!
What is it called when a kickoff is either downed in or goes through the endzone???
It’s something like 25% of Mexico’s entire economy.
Wet back.
The government can’t steal someone’s money because they don’t like who they are or suspect but can’t prove they are doing something wrong. This is supposedly a conservative idea?
Use these funds to finance the wall.
I think a tax on cash wired to Mexico would pay for the wall
So the plan is to pay for The Wall with laundered drug money.
A bit of a conflict of interest...
“It’s something like 25% of Mexico’s entire economy.”
Mexican leaders....
Caused it
Encouraged it
Flaunted it.
Now, they can E A T it !
I just want the R nominee to look square int the camera and say, “at a minimum we want to enact immigration laws the same as Mexico’s laws on their southern border”. Drop the mic and walk off.
With lots of hot peppers on top! Hope it burns all the way down!
As if wire transfers are the only way for a Mexican illegal to send money back home.
Or that they won't simply send cash. Or money orders. Or use PayPal. Or...
The white (Spaniard) Mexicans are the elites, and they're forcing the darker skinned Mestizos to the border.
Exactly...
Sucks to be Western Union then. RICO’ s a bitch.
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