Jason Beaubien. One of President Trump’s boldest, most ambitious proposals on the campaign trail was to build a wall along the Southern border and get Mexico to pay for it. Amid the tumult of Trump’s first few months in internatiknal, the border wall hasn’t gotten as much attention as some other things. But new legislation has been introduced in Congress to help fund it. Mike Rogers, R-Ala. And it would put a 2 percent tax on all person-to-person wire transfers to Mexico, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean. It’s not the only bill targeting remittances. An earlier proposal in the Senate, which didn’t advance out of committee, would have placed a 7 percent «fine» on orvers unless the sender can prove he or she is in the U. It should be noted that these proposals would only apply to personal transfers and not to businesses moving money abroad to say, Mexico or the Cayman Islands. Villalobos says he’s very concerned about any additional...