How Trump’s Wall and Remittance Tax Could Give Bitcoin a Boost

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border as he had promised during his presidential election campaign. Aside from the ethical and practical issues of building the border wall, the issue of how it will be financed was also raised by opponents during his campaign. Trump’s proposed solution to funding the wall is either to heavily tax U.S.–Mexico remittances or to fully prohibit them altogether, so that the funds needed to build the wall will stay in the U.S. According to the World Bank, U.S.–based Mexican immigrants send around....

Bitcoin could soon come to the rescue of millions of Mexicans if the Trump administration’s proposed crackdown on remittances becomes law. Digital currency exchanges in Mexico are thriving and ever-increasing trade is being witnessed. As early as May, the President-Elect’s campaign signaled its intention to stop more than six mln undocumented Mexicans in the U.S. from sending money home. Informal economy for remittances. The remittance funds kept in the U.S., as Bloomberg points out, would be tantamount to making Mexico pay for Trump’s long-touted border wall. “I would risk stuffing money....

There has been a lot of talk about Donald Trump and his plans to build a physical wall around Mexico. But how this makes the controversial figure a disputed messenger of Bitcoin? Let's check out: There has been a lot of talk about Donald Trump and his plans to build a physical wall around Mexico. This plan would be set in motion to prevent remittance solutions originating in the US, and coerce the Mexican government into paying for this wall in the end. But Bitcoin will quickly sneak around this border, making Trump’s plan seem ever more silly than it was in the first place. For a....

Mexico’s biggest cash cow is under siege as Donald J. Trump threatens to tax or halt remittances to the country in order to pay for his border wall. Western Union Shares Dive. Following Trump’s executive order to start building the southern border wall issued on Wednesday, markets are already taking into account the possibility of a tax on remittances from the U.S. to Mexico. This is already being felt by such remittance giants as Western Union whose shares dropped 2.44% today. As a whole, the legacy remittance industry has been facing increasing competition from fintech and money transfer....

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....