Remittance Fee Could Fund Border Wall

A group of House Republicans on Thursday introduced the first major bill to fund President Trump’s border wall, saying the government could collect billions by imposing a 2% fee on all the money Mexicans and other immigrants send home.  Estimates vary, but remittances from those in the U.S. to their relatives back home could top $130 billion a year.  A 2% tax could net more than $2 billion a year for the border wall construction.

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