Arizona seizes migrants' remittances

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Uncategorized | Nov 30, 2006 | No Comments

A follow-up to our coverage (1,2) of Arizona’s attempt to finance its border wall with a tax on money wired abroad: In These Times reports that the state is now simply seizing the money, on the suspicion that everyone who wires money to another country is a drug trafficker.

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