National Review - "Could a President Trump Really Impound All Immigrant Payments to Mexico?"

[TomCADem]

I think we are now seeing some details about the new kinder and gentler Trump.

Instead of a physical deportation force, Trump is proposing that the U.S. just steal money earned by poor immigrants in the U.S. and sent home to their families and need, and use that money to pay for the Great Wall of Trump. That way, by starving their families back home, Trump could force Mexican immigrants to self-deport.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422744/donald-trump-remittance-plan-evaluation

Donald Trump’s new immigration plan boldly declares that, “Mexico must pay for the border wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages.”

Would that even be possible? A Trump administration could erect a lot of legal, regulatory, and logistical obstacles to transferring money from the U.S. to Mexico. But those moves would enrage the banks and financial institutions that make money off the transfers, and probably spur interest in transfer methods that escape the attention and grasp of law enforcement.

Earlier this year, Mexico’s central bank released data indicating Mexicans abroad sent home $23.6 billion in 2014, almost all of it from the United States. Payments from workers abroad make up just 2 percent of Mexican GDP, but they can play a much bigger role in particular local economies. One study concluded that “the poorest rural areas” of the country derive 19.5 percent of their income from remittances. Whatever their economic impact, the payments are widespread: An estimated 83 percent of Mexicans who enter the country illegally send money home. But so do 73 percent of legal Mexican immigrants — making a blanket restriction on remittances virtually impossible.

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Trump’s pledge to “impound” remittance payments implies seizure, an act that would face a high legal bar to clear. But the government has successfully seized money in the accounts of criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants across the border.

[procon]

1. No surprise. He also thought we should steal the oil from the people of Iraq.

For someone who tries to bill himself as the "law and order president", he sounds more like a thieving crook.

[NurseJackie]

2. Sounds like it would need a declaration of war.

[GusBob]

3. Godwins rule no longer applies to this bunch

The Nazis did the same thing with the Jews, robbed them

[Gothmog]

4. Trump's plan is clearly illegal

[duncang]

5. Fits in with some of the stuff he has done

Not paying people. Just SOP for dipshit.