And they could respond with a tax on their exports. Mexico is 2nd largest trade partner with the US after Canada.

Problem with that explanation is that it isn’t very complicated, which he said it would be.

Mexico will pay us in illegal immigrants that we can use to collect our produce ... wait.

Why this whole thing is especially stupid and frustrating - #4 will lead to the opposite of #3. NAFTA created a lot of jobs in Mexico, which is a part of why we now have more undocumented Mexican immigrants leaving the US than entering. Undo NAFTA, and we’ll most likely see a big rise in illegal immigration.

The current plan is to take the money out of their foreign aid budget. In other words, to build a wall to stop drugs, that won’t stop drugs, they’re going to cut the money going into law enforcement and agricultural re-development, the stuff that actually stops drugs.

The U.S. Social Security Administration estimated that in 2013 undocumented immigrants—and their employers—paid $13 billion in payroll taxes alone for benefits they will never get. They can receive schooling and emergency medical care, but notwelfare or food stamps.

I’m no financial expert, so you’d probably do better to check out the link I put in. I’m with you, it sounds like there’s very little way to prevent them from sending money, unless they may a regulation regarding money going out of the U.S. and PayPal (or others) have to abide by it. But would it be a regulation that…

And the crazy thing is that this is completely counter to anything useful towards their stated goals.

Produce is a much nicer thought than what I’m assuming, which is blood. I mean clearly he’s going to make Mexico “pay” for not paying for the wall, right?

There’s already hundreds of tunnels used by drug traffickers so this will surely fix that problem.

But Trump doesn’t give a flying fig about the Constitution, and goodness knows he and his supporters are not the brightest knives in the shed. He would do something utterly stupid just to spite someone who pisses him off.

I’m pretty sure even Dump can’t outright steal money from people...what the hell am I saying? Of course he’ll do just that.

None of these things would even pay a fraction of the cost of the proposed wall, which is estimated to be millions of dollars per mile.

I think one method he mentions was preventing money Mexicans here send to people in Mexico...

You guys are really lucky the Canadian border is so fucking long and that we really don’t have the population to properly secure it.

There was a cartoon about this in 2006, after W built the fence.

That part scares me so much. Look at how France fucked over Haiti with a billion dollar debt and put Haiti into crippling poverty.

Yes.