Alabama's Republican Representative, Mike Rogers, proposes to impose a 2 percent tax on remittances sent from the United States to Mexico and to countries in South America to pay for the border wall that President Donald Trump intends to build.
"We want South Americans, in particular Mexico, to help pay for security at the southwest border", Rogers said this Tuesday, who confused the location of Mexico in the American continent.
"As I understand, we have more than 30 billion dollars a year sent as remittances from this country to South American nations, mostly to Mexico".
Even though Rogers didn't say when he's presenting this proposal or if he counts with his colleagues in the House of Representatives, the legislator said that if it was approved "it would establish a 2 percent tax on remittances, such as those of Western Union and MoneyGram" and that it would work out as "one of the methods" to pay for the border wall.
According to Rogers, taxing remittances to Mexico where remittances are a major source of income- would generate "about $1 billion a year" to be used by the United States to build a wall.
In 2016, Mexicans that live in the United States sent more than 26 billion dollars in remittances to Mexico, a record number.
Last week the Mexican government said that it would take action to try to safeguard these remittances, which are also an economic engine in some countries in Central America and the Caribbean where they represent up to 10 percent of the GDP, Gross Domestic Product.
On several occasions President Enrique Peña Nieto made it clear that Mexico will not pay in any way the construction of the border wall that the Trump government intends to build in the common border.
Rogers made the announcement during a hearing on border security at the Capitol, where new National Security Secretary John Kelly testified.
Rogers asked the retired general if he had heard of any other suggestion to charge Mexico for the construction of the wall.
"I do not know of any. Clearly the White House is working on this and it would fall on the State Department initially to work with the countries, with Mexico, to reach an agreement, but I have not heard anything specific, "he said.
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