I really voted for trump cos I wanted him to implement his promises, and I'd do it again, because its better to pray someone will implement their promises vs someone who you hope does not - their promises are so awful, you really cringe at how much damage they can do - That is the hallmark of every politician to be POTUS - till Trump.

Really I want him to make more promises along those lines, and then keep up.

Cool.
Srinath.

How did whatever "democraps" are stop Mexico from paying for the wall?

srinath wrote on 04/30/20 at 16:49:13:



BTW this is a huge deal - and no one has got a grasp on it.
Most Mexicans send $$$ as remittances one of 2 ways -
I know, I've used both to send $$$ to India.

1. Western union/other wire transfer. This is simple - there will need to be a way to validate the status of the sender at the point of transaction. For example if I show up trying to send $$$, I would need to prove I am here legally and prove that the $$$ got to me legally. I make 100K and I send 20K a month back, 5 months on - well, they should know I'm dealing crack. OK Simple - fully tag and bio Id and document all immigrants and non immigrants. Minimum work, maximum benefit.
2. What is called in India the "havala" method. You pay $$ to someone here, and their agent will pay your family $$$ in India because they're going to have people come here and take the $$$ etc etc. Now, this is easily countered by #1 and right there they know you don't do #2 unless you're doing something fishy, and you can also require $$$ used outside of US to be invalid unless its legally recognized as valid - and after all its a piece of paper - it can be declared as "non legal tender" unless verifiable. India was a hot bed of people going to Singapore to bring back stuff, and they'd smuggle US$ out. In any case we may not be able to tax remittances but atleast we choke it out to remove the incentive of coming to the US illegally.

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Srinath.