Bitcoin Will Scale Donald Trump's Mexico-Remittance Wall

Bitcoin Will Scale Donald Trump's Mexico-Remittance Wall

One of Donald Trump’s many campaign promises if he is elected President of the United States is a tall wall along the Mexico-U.S. border. Mexico is footing the bill, if it were up to the Donald. Refuse and Trump will put the brakes on the $24 billion remittance flow from U.S. to Mexico, his plan shows. The legality and feasibility of such measures aside, the plan is simple enough, with one significant shortcoming. If Trump wins the Presidency and somehow imposes a sweeping rule to legally block all remittance from the United States to Mexico, services such as Western Union, Xoom and other....


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