remittances

Remittances sent to Mexico, often by illegal Mexican nationals living in the United States, have continued plunging under President Donald Trump’s nationwide surge in interior immigration enforcement. 

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said Sunday that Congress should quadruple the tax on remittances, saying the United States is not the “world’s piggy bank.”

For the third month in a row, remittances from Mexican workers to their native country dropped sharply.

House Republicans on Monday unveiled legislation that would establish a five percent tax on remittances from illegal aliens to those outside the United States.

The Central Bank of Nicaragua acknowledged the “weight” that remittances sent from abroad have on the economic growth of the country, the newspaper Confidencial reported on Tuesday.

The upcoming end of the Biden-era “Humanitarian Parole” program will impact remittances sent to Nicaragua — a crucial economic “lifeline” for the nation’s communist regime, the local newspaper La Prensa reported Monday.

Mexico is sending hundreds of lawyers to provide legal shields for the country’s four million illegal migrants currently in the U.S.

The communist regime in Cuba — a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism — reportedly tricked the outgoing administration of U.S. President Joe Biden into funding its repressive military through a “civilian” company that handles remittances sent to Cubans from abroad, El Nuevo Herald revealed on Tuesday.

The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported that the country has seen a historic increase in remittances from the United States.

The communist dictatorship of Nicaragua saw a growth of nearly 12 percent in the amount of remittance money emigrants sent to the country during the first quarter of 2024.

Long-term illegal aliens from Venezuela admit they send most of the U.S. dollars they are able to gather back to their home country.

President Joe Biden’s Cuban-born border chief is accelerating his transfer of poor Cuban migrants into Americans’ society and the U.S. economy.

The Nicaraguan communist regime has been funding itself with remittances sent home by Nicaraguans who it banished or forced to flee, turning them into a crucial economic resource, a report published by the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa on Friday revealed.

President Joe Biden suggested on Tuesday that it is “not rational” to return economic migrants to their homes in the autocratic states of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

One of President Joe Biden’s three Executive Orders issued Tuesday offers aid to help modernize Central American countries — but also promises to extract many of their productive young people for other uses in the United States.

Migrants in the United States sent about $103 billion in mostly untaxed remittances to six foreign countries last year — including about $19 billion to China.

Columnist Michelle Malkin is calling on President Trump to “shut down” a Federal Reserve program that profits off remittances sent to foreign countries by illegal aliens. 

Mexicans living abroad, primarily those working in the United States, are adding billions of dollars to the Mexican economy.

President Donald Trump may have found a way to fulfill one of the more ambitious — and controversial — pledges from his 2016 campaign: making Mexico pay for the wall.

Legal and illegal migrants send $150 billion in untaxed funds back to their homelands each year, denying the remittances to Americans and their communities, according to a Federation for American Immigration Reform report.

Jessica Vaughan offered seven recommendations to Donald Trump to further the president’s agenda on border security and immigration.

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says President Trump can stop mass illegal immigration and asylum fraud, as well as boost the American economy, by unilaterally ending all remittances to Mexico. 

Legal and illegal migrants sent $53.4 billion in remittances back to Mexico and Central America in 2018, more than double the cost of building a border barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The media are trying to convince Trump that if he abandons the wall, he’ll be a statesman, so that as soon as he folds, they can start making fun of him as an untrustworthy liar. 

While President Trump’s looks to minimal sources to continue funding more United States-Mexico border construction projects — mainly bollard-style fencing — Congress is hiding some of the most commonly proposals.

Legal and illegal immigrants wired almost $140 billion from the United States back to their home countries and foreign relatives in 2016.

Mexico is sending a top cabinet-level diplomat to illegal alien-friendly California to help Mexican citizens living in the US illegally avoid deportation in a post-DACA environment.

Whatever caused Tuesday evening’s DACA tweet — perhaps a loss of nerve in a Bannon-less West Wing — it was an error from which Trump must extricate himself, and soon.

The construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico Border is pushing ahead, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly said.

A recently-announced purchase of an American financial services corporation by a Chinese owned company may weaken President Trump’s efforts to make America great again and could set back Trump’s trade reform efforts.

Federal funding for one of President Donald Trump’s premier policy proposals may be excluded from the House GOP’s budget for Fiscal Year 2017-2018.

A bill to tax illegal immigrants to fund the construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall was introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL).

Mexicans sent billions of dollars back to Mexico in November after President-elect Donald Trump’s election win, Reuters reports.

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton joined Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon to discuss Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposal to block a portion of the roughly $25 billion annual money transfers, known as remittances, sent to Mexico by Mexicans living outside the country until the Mexican government agrees to “a one-time payment of $5-10 billion” to pay for the border wall.

Stephen Miller, a senior policy advisor for Donald Trump, told Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon he was shocked at President Obama’s response to Trump’s proposal to end remittances from illegal aliens back to Mexico as a means of curtailing