Game, set, match - Trump
Every illegal sending money home via western union should get a free souvenir cinder block.
Brilliant. I would add, get the money first, then ship every illegal back to the southern most tip of South America—and make Mexico pay for that as well.
The article didn’t even mention a tax on out-of-country wire transfers.
It used to be that remittances were second to the gas and oil industry being their number one GNP. Today, remittances holds the #1 slot. No way will Mexico consider building a wall that will bankrupt the country.
Need to think this through. What is to stop Mexico from confiscating American assets in their country - for example all those American-owned factories ‘taking jobs from America.’
People have a right under international law to leave their country (but not to enter that of a country that doesn’t want to let them in).
This right was created because East Germany tried to keep its people in the country.
Mexico can’t legally fund the wall even at the risk of losing $24 billion/year.
Sounds like he's been thinking about this a lot more than we realized.
This is gonna be a fun year.
And of course he has other methods that he is not publicizing, as Trump believes in not telling your opponent your every move in advance. So it could be any of these, something different, or any combination of the above.
The point is - Mexico WILL pay for the wall. And if he wanted to stimulate the economy in a real way, prior to the election open up a website for potential wall-building contractors to register their interest. He’d have thousands of blue-collar employees who work for those contractors lining up their friends and neighbors to vote Trump!
Grab the money, build the wall, and make getting any of the leftover money incumbent on the illegals picking it up in Mexico.