The plan on making Mexico pay for the wall is coming together

1) Tax on remittances

Currently only OK has a fee on remittances made to foreign countries. It is fully refundable when a citizen files their taxes for that year. However, $12M remain unclaimed last year in just that state alone. Mexico is the largest receiver of these US initiated remittances, to the tune of $29B per year. (that's money forever leaving our economy to prop up theirs). A 3% transaction fee would raise $1B in the first year from Mexico, and $2.5B from all S. American remittances combined

2) Fee for expedited green cards

Surveys say that applicants for green cards would gleefully pay $2,500 or more to get to the front of the line and get their green cards quicker. This is mainly in response to those tech workers who have been used to replace higher paid American workers. Would immediately raise $4B of the $25B needed

3) Targeted surpluses from Nafta renegotiations

As Nafta is made more US friendly (due to Trumps insistence) any and all monies generated from those re-negotiations would be directed to fund the wall


Analysis: The wall could be built with these monies within the remainder of Trumps term. And then be properly maintained by continuing these funding mechanisms, going forward. And Americans would get their investment returned, sorta how a toll road repays the original taxpayer investment