A proposed new tax on money that migrants earn in the U.S. and send back home to family is "codifying, going after the cartels and the organized crimes in America that make this all happen," Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., told Newsmax on Thursday.
The tax, part of the proposed "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" making its way through the Senate, is a 3.5% tax on "remittances" from noncitizens in the U.S., or money transferred back to relatives and family in the migrants' home country.
"Certainly, as we know from our early days of going after organized crime, it's about follow the money," Hern told Newsmax's "National Report."
"And that's what we're doing here. President [Donald] Trump and his team has done a great job of shutting down the border. We've seen that since he's been in office in January. No new laws, just execution of the laws, which is what he said at the state of the Union.
"What we're doing here is codifying, going after the cartels and the organized crimes in America that make this all happen. We're talking billions of dollars annually that the CBP, ICE, and others, law enforcement, FBI have all said is happening. And we're going after this," he added.
The U.S. is "going to raise billions of dollars with this," he told Newsmax.
"We're going to get it through."
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Solange Reyner is a writer and editor for Newsmax. She has more than 15 years in the journalism industry reporting and covering news, sports and politics.
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