Team Trump cooks up a new bright idea to stick it to the illegals…

[bilo]

In a separate social media post, Bessent warned that illegal migrants “use our financial institutions to move their illicitly obtained funds.”

Describing that practice as “exploitation,” the Treasury secretary vowed: “It will end.”

“[President Trump] is right — if you’re here illegally, there’s no place for you in our financial system,” Bessent wrote.The post came on the same day the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Bureau issued an alert to money services businesses — such as check cashers, remittance processors and digital payment processors — asking them to be “vigilant in identifying suspicious financial activity involving illegal aliens who present significant threats to national security and public safety.”

The alert noted that money services businesses (MSBs) are generally required to file a suspicious activity report for a transaction that involves at least $2,000 and may violate federal law, including a “cross-border transfer of funds derived from unlawful employment or otherwise derived from funds the MSB knows, suspects, or has reason to suspect were illicitly obtained in the United States.”

https://revolver.news/2025/12/team-trump-cooks-up-a-new-bright-idea-to-stick-it-to-the-illegals/

[bilo]

If the admn. follows through and starts seizing all the money illegals are sending back home they will have no choice but to leave.

[Idiot]

If the admn. follows through and starts seizing all the money illegals are sending back home they will have no choice but to leave.

I've got mixed emotions about this from a humanitarian point of view.  There are probably 6-8 Hispanic men (likely illegal) living in small house and working for a landscaping co.that I see on the way to work.  They are likely sending money back to family in Mexico, where there is no way they can make as much.  Who knows how many people they are supporting.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I've got mixed emotions about this from a humanitarian point of view.  There are probably 6-8 Hispanic men (likely illegal) living in small house and working for a landscaping co.that I see on the way to work.  They are likely sending money back to family in Mexico, where there is no way they can make as much.  Who knows how many people they are supporting.

I understand the issue.  People willing to work and not take welfare are due respect as they do it for the right reasons, to support family.

Unfortunately, they likely all wrongly breached our laws to obtain those jobs, so respect is not earned.

That cannot be rewarded by turning the other way.

We either have laws or we don't if people disregard them.

[Sighlass]

So they will get two $1000 money orders instead of one... this does nothing.

[bilo]

I've got mixed emotions about this from a humanitarian point of view.  There are probably 6-8 Hispanic men (likely illegal) living in small house and working for a landscaping co.that I see on the way to work.  They are likely sending money back to family in Mexico, where there is no way they can make as much.  Who knows how many people they are supporting.

Why should Mexico, or any other country, improve the lives of their citizens if they have the safety valve of money being sent home from the USA.

[bilo]

So they will get two $1000 money orders instead of one... this does nothing.

That may be the case initially, but the admin. is taking the position that since they are not here legally the money they make is illegal. In the end the dollar amount able to be sent without scrutiny will be smaller and smaller. Also, if the same account is sending multiple amounts within a short time frame it will trigger a red flag.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The Patriot Act required financial institutions to perform due diligence to acquire proof of identity for it customers.  This was to thwart money laundering and fraud.

I believe I needed to provide my passort as proof of identity and legal immigration status (as a (natural born) American citizen).

If I, a natural born American citizen, must provide proof of legal immigration status for employment and banking, what's the excuse for illegal aliens to not to?

How many illegally employed illegal aliens with illegal bank accounts are getting their checks Direct Deposited?  How many illegal aliens are using Check Cashers and online financial services, such as Venmo?

[Free Vulcan]

I'm all for rounding up and deporting, but it's a slow grind.

The most effective way to solve the problem - and alot of our other problems - is to cut off the money.

[DefiantMassRINO]

There is a whole shadow economy that preys upon and profits from illegal aliens.

Gringos and Blancos that do business with illegal aliens need to start going to jail.

I want them to be here legally after they have been vetted and passed health screenings so they can fully participate in American society and the economy.

Those who think illegal immigration is a good thing are parasites, pirates, and vampires seeking to exploit illegal aliens for profit.

School age illegal immigrant children should not be hosing down meat packing plants at night so a Blackrock subsidiary LLC can make a profit for rich kleptocratic oligarchs.

[Kamaji]

So they will get two $1000 money orders instead of one... this does nothing.

Also known as smurfing

[DCPatriot]

I'm all for rounding up and deporting, but it's a slow grind.

The most effective way to solve the problem - and alot of our other problems - is to cut off the money.

'Solving' the problem creates a much worse problem, with people more than an arm's length responsibility from the illegal immigrant population.

Every business within walking distance from my front door will suffer to the point of not being able to maintain 'normal' business hours, if they stay open at all!

Am a 15 minute drive to Potomac, MD or Great Falls, Virginia.

But if I drive EAST toward Kensington, Silver Spring, Langley Park, Powder Mill and College Park, it's a completely different world.

One that would become a Ghost Town...entire zip codes unoccupied.

[Free Vulcan]

'Solving' the problem creates a much worse problem, with people more than an arm's length responsibility from the illegal immigrant population.

Every business within walking distance from my front door will suffer to the point of not being able to maintain 'normal' business hours, if they stay open at all!

Am a 15 minute drive to Potomac, MD or Great Falls, Virginia.

But if I drive EAST toward Kensington, Silver Spring, Langley Park, Powder Mill and College Park, it's a completely different world.

One that would become a Ghost Town...entire zip codes unoccupied.

Well one upside - housing well get cheaper. 

[bilo]

I'm all for rounding up and deporting, but it's a slow grind.

The most effective way to solve the problem - and alot of our other problems - is to cut off the money.

 

[bilo]

'Solving' the problem creates a much worse problem, with people more than an arm's length responsibility from the illegal immigrant population.

Every business within walking distance from my front door will suffer to the point of not being able to maintain 'normal' business hours, if they stay open at all!

Am a 15 minute drive to Potomac, MD or Great Falls, Virginia.

But if I drive EAST toward Kensington, Silver Spring, Langley Park, Powder Mill and College Park, it's a completely different world.

One that would become a Ghost Town...entire zip codes unoccupied.

Technology will fill the gap for some of those jobs. Americans who want to work will fill some of those jobs. Americans who no longer qualify for welfare benefits will fill some of those jobs. Businesses that can't make a profit without illegal labor will fail.

[Idiot]

Technology will fill the gap for some of those jobs. Americans who want to work will fill some of those jobs. Americans who no longer qualify for welfare benefits will fill some of those jobs. Businesses that can't make a profit without illegal labor will fail.

Technology won't fill the gap of laborers (mainly Hispanic) who do jobs that most other won't do.

[libertybele]

Technology won't fill the gap of laborers (mainly Hispanic) who do jobs that most other won't do.

I declare B.S. -- this fallacy and liberal talking point of Americans won't do these jobs is garbage.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I want them to be here legally after they have been vetted and passed health screenings so they can fully participate in American society and the economy.

I think for citizenship the most important requirement should be renouncing all allegiance to foreign countries, a citizenship test which confirm an understanding of why this country exists, and an oath of fealty to it.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Technology won't fill the gap of laborers (mainly Hispanic) who do jobs that most other won't do.

[berdie]

I declare B.S. -- this fallacy and liberal talking point of Americans won't do these jobs is garbage.

I think they will only if forced to. If there are no government subsidies, etc.

A couple of years ago I had to have a plumber out (not one I typically use). He informed me that he didn't go under houses or dig. If either of those two things were needed he would call his helper and I would have to pay extra. I was in a bind so I didn't run him off.  So when some digging was needed he called his helper...who was Hispanic. Probably not a typical case but it sure illustrates the mind set of a lot of people.

[Idiot]

I declare B.S. -- this fallacy and liberal talking point of Americans won't do these jobs is garbage.

Actually it’s a way of life now.  People won’t do hard work.  We’ve been trying to hire for months now…no one will work.

[bilo]

Technology won't fill the gap of laborers (mainly Hispanic) who do jobs that most other won't do.

Not true.

If you look at how Australia responded with new technology in farming you can see one example. If you're thinking of high labor jobs such as drywalling we will see technology come into play as well. If you're thinking of landscaping we have more than enough young men that aren't working that can fill those spots.

Some people will use the argument that illegals do jobs Americans won't because they love having their "indentured servants". It's time this comes to an end.

[bilo]

I declare B.S. -- this fallacy and liberal talking point of Americans won't do these jobs is garbage.

 

[bilo]

I think they will only if forced to. If there are no government subsidies, etc.

A couple of years ago I had to have a plumber out (not one I typically use). He informed me that he didn't go under houses or dig. If either of those two things were needed he would call his helper and I would have to pay extra. I was in a bind so I didn't run him off.  So when some digging was needed he called his helper...who was Hispanic. Probably not a typical case but it sure illustrates the mind set of a lot of people.

A normal reaction if you have very cheap, compliant labor available. If that labor source is not available the tradesman has to decide whether he wants to do that job, or leave it to the younger man starting out who is willing to do the dirty work to get ahead.

[bilo]

Actually it’s a way of life now.  People won’t do hard work.  We’ve been trying to hire for months now…no one will work.

Just not true.

The biggest problem in the trades is we don't have enough young men being taught skills. Everyone was sold the garbage that you need to go to college, take on a huge amount of debt for a degree that is worthless to get ahead.

I'm retired now, but I was in real estate for close to 40 years. The contractors I had decades long relationships with were mostly Eastern European. They were taught trades early on when they did not take the path to going to college. A fair number of these guys became millionaires. There is no reason young men who are not interested in pursuing a worthless degree can't pursue a skill. All they need is to be shown there is an alternative.