Iowa Rep. Steve King Thinks Most Payments Sent to Mexico Are ‘Laundered Drug Money’
Source: Mediate
Iowa Rep. Steve King Thinks Most Payments Sent to Mexico Are Laundered Drug Money
by Sam Reisman | 2:56 pm, April 6th, 2016
Congressman Steve King (R-IA) responded positively to Donald Trumps proposal to fund his border wall by blocking any payments by immigrants in America sending funds back to their home countries. King averred that most of that money was just laundered drug money.
Speaking to Steve Malzberg on Newsmax, King said of Trumps proposition: Lets let that dialogue go and see how that works.
Regarding money sent by immigrants in America back to Mexico, South America, and Central America, King said, I suspect a good chunk of it is laundered drug money. He added that there had been virtually no effort to interdict the money flowing out of America, which he said was going straight into the hands of drug cartels.
In a press conference Tuesday, President Barack Obama blasted Trumps proposal as absurd. The notion that we are going to track every Western Union bit of money that is being sent to Mexico, good luck with that, he said.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/iowa-rep-steve-king-thinks-most-payments-sent-to-mexico-are-laundered-drug-money/
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Jarqui
(10,110 posts)Maybe I'm wrong but my initial reaction was wondering about racism.
This guy seems to really hate Latinos.
houston16revival
(953 posts)there are no Mexican lawn mowing companies in Steve's upscale neighborhood
or Mexican restaurants
or scavenger thrift store shoppers
He's just out of touch with humanity
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)dinkytron
(568 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)Those are the cheap wages your corporate handlers are paying to ILLEGALLY employ these people they EXPLOIT!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Eugene
(61,592 posts)Predictable. Pure racism, but still predictable.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)family members in another country (usually Mexico). Sit in customer service at Wal Mart on Friday evenings and Saturday and watch it happen.
a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)In all those tiny, rural towns that are little more than shantytowns.
He's such a racist asshole
NBachers
(16,998 posts)They're living in exile from their homeland and sending money back to help their family. They're helping to build homes and communities that they one day hope to return to.
I'm impressed at how hard-working and devoted they are. They go without so they can contribute to their wives, their children, and their parents. Fuck steve king.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)I doubt he can think
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)money that first came through our paychecks before they ended up in your rural mailboxes.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)Asshole.
Skittles
(152,963 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)downeastdaniel
(497 posts)Breaking Laborers send the vast majority to keep their families alive and themselves too, when they return. Even Steveo can't be that stupid! He's just not able to pass up an opportunity to join the racists in the Pig Pile.
Joe Bacon
(5,163 posts)Hey, both of them both love to blow a little dope...
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)undocumented workers are sending money out of the country. It's nobody's business how these people spend the $ they earn... These people usually come here to get money to take care of their families back home.
Also, the 1% send and spend millions overseas every year - Nobody accuses them of laundering money even though that's probably just what they're doing!
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)from their paychecks to the Federal Government.
Something that they will never collect.
Jeb Bartlet
(141 posts)that is the GOP, this particular turd shines out as a beacon of stupid to the rest of the right wing imbeciles.
IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)and then they'll make it into policy
assholes