Topic: General politics
Letter to Doc Hastings- if we stop the flow of money to Mexico, I bet much of the CRIME stops too!
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Rep. 'Doc' Hastings
2715 St. Andrews Loop, Suite D
Pasco, WA 99301
13 July 2011
Greetings,
I'm writing with a concern about Legislation on the National level as well as the State level, to address a crime issue.
It's no secret that Illegal Alien traffic into the US from Mexico is epidemic, especially when DRUG TRAFFIC is included. Those activities are carried out more or less 'to America.'
There's a problem I see in America thats being exported 'down there' and thats money transfer in US Dollars.
Millions (?) in USD are transferred to Mexico where it does no good for what's left of our economy.
Such transfers (i.e. wire transfers) are an OBVIOUS conduit for transfer of payments for illegal activities such as weapons, drugs and human trafficing.
I presume that Illegal Alien traffic going South carrying drug money is a rare thing; I assume the drug money is being wired South?
What about human smuggling? Is repayment being made via wire transfer?
I know of no other presumption in regards to such money transfers especially from Mexican communities in America with high illegal content, than the transfers are also connected to illegal activity.
If money is being sent to Mexico, that presumes the sender is illegal and sending money back to family. Thats one thing, but the worse probability that the money is repayment for human smuggling, drugs and weapons.
If there are hardships in Mexico that prompt one to come here illegally to work and send money home, more crime is not the answer, let them all apply for Citizenship and come here legally. Needing to wire money home for food and etc therefore is not a valid reason.
If we shut down the money supply, much of the illegal traffic may disappear.
Put another way, if the party transferring money is here legally, has a Green Card, has dual citizenship, then it's no problem for them to visit Mexico and take funds along, or have legitimate bank accounts to transfer with.
Illegal gun traffic a problem? It wont be if they don't have USD to buy them with.
Proposed legislation- Make wire transfers of US funds to Mexico illegal based on the likelihood that the transfers are related to criminal activities such as human trafficking, drug and weapons smuggling. This is not a "citizenship" or "Civil rights" issue, there is no inherent Civil Right to transfer money to Mexico that I know of. This is not an "Alien" question in my opinion, but more of a means to address a money laundering problem.
