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Trump announced that he may impose a 20 percent tax on all products from Mexico to quickly pay for the wall, without American taxpayers being directly hit with the expected $10 to $14 billion cost.

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David North, an immigration expert with the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) says he has a solution that would entail illegal immigrants living in the U.S. actually footing the bill. Under Norths proposal, he argues that by shuttering programs which federally fund illegal immigrants, nearly $1 to $3 billion could be shored annually, paying for the wall in potentially less than a decade.

Put a 2 percent fee on all outgoing remittances, North writes. The rate is low enough to discourage alternative ways of sending money to the homelands, and the paper created will give IRS good leads for collecting unpaid income taxes.

North also cites terminating the ruling which allows families with illegal immigrant family members obtain food-stamps, getting rid of the Additional Child Tax Credit for children who do not have Social Security numbers, mostly because their parents are illegal immigrants, and charge individuals a going-rate to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

North writes that a small 25 cents fee imposed on individuals entering the country from Mexico, and an additional $1 for a vehicle and $5 for a bus, could create revenue to pay for the southern border wall.

None of these proposals would depress the Mexican economy, all would help fund the wall, and most would have absolutely no impact on the vast majority of American taxpayers, and all (but the crossing fees) would encourage illegal aliens to return home, North writes.

John Binder is a contributor for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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BY: Cameron Cawthorne February 1, 2017 10:59 am

Laura Wilkerson, the mother of a young boy who was tortured to death by an illegal immigrant, confronted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) at a CNN town hall on Tuesday night, where shecriticized sanctuary cities, like San Francisco, for choosing to disavow federal immigration laws.

"There are over 300 cities in this country that are sanctuary cities, like San Francisco, and you're not only choosing to disavow a law, but you are adding sanctuary to people who come there and disavow the law," Wilkerson said to Pelosi, who represents San Fransisco in Congress.

"In 2010, one of the illegals slaughtered my son. He tortured him, he beat him, he tied him up like an animal, and he set him on fire," Wilkerson continued. "And I am not a one-story mother. This happens every day. Because there are no laws enforcing the border. We have to start giving American families first."

Wilkerson thenprovided Pelosi with a hypothetical scenario in which she had to choose one of her children or grandchildren and tell them that they are expendable for a foreign person to have a better life.

"If you need to go home tonight and line up your babies, as you say, and your grandbabies, which one of them could you look in their eyes today, and tell them that they're expendable for another foreign person to have an a nicer life?" Wilkerson asked.

Pelosi responded by commending Wilkerson for telling her story and said that she could not imagine what she is going through.

"You can't," Wilkerson responded.

"I pray for you. Again, we all pray that none of us has to experience what you have experienced. So thank you for channelling your energy to help prevent something like that from happening," Pelosi said. "But I do want to say to you, that in our sanctuary cities, our people are not disobeying the law."

Pelosi went on to say that people in sanctuary cities arelaw-abiding citizens and that it enables them to be there without being reported to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"Will my son's killer get sanctuary from the law in your city when he gets out of jail?" Wilkerson asked.

Pelosi said "of course not" and asked Wilkerson whether or not her son was killed in a sanctuary city. Wilkerson said that it was an unspokenrule in Houston, Texas at the time.

"The point is that you don't turn law enforcement officers into immigration officers. That is really what the point is in a sanctuary city, so it's not a question of getting sanctuary to someone who is guilty of a crime," Pelosi said. "They should be deported or sent to jail for what they do."

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President Donald Trump's Army secretary nominee is reportedly seeking to swap a stake in his airline, Eastern Air Lines, for a smaller stake in the charter airline Swift, sources familiar with the negotiations told The New York Times. Swift Air reportedly makes up to $18 million a year from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deporting illegal immigrants.

The Army secretary nominee, Vincent Viola, is a billionaire Wall Street trader, and his reason for trying to sell Eastern Air Lines is not clear. The airline industry is heavily regulated by the federal government, though, so the decision might be an attempt to detangle from any potential conflicts of interest.

Nevertheless, Phoenix-based Swift Air has millions of dollars in government subcontracts, people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Times said. "As a government official, [Viola] would be in a position to push the policy in a way that benefits him," said Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. "As an ethical matter, that would be inappropriate. And he should not put himself in a position where he could push a controversial policy in a direction that profits him."

Separately, Viola has placed his interest in the Florida Panthers hockey team into a trust although it isn't apparent if there would somehow be a conflict of interest by owning the team, or if he simply wants to unburden himself.

"Mr. Viola shared all of his business dealings with the transition and is actively pursuing full compliance with all requirements necessary for his confirmation," said David White, President Trump's transition spokesman. Jeva Lange

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BY: Jack Heretik January 31, 2017 6:19 pm

JamielShaw Sr., whose son was murdered by an illegal immigrant, said Tuesday that he is not buying Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D., N.Y.) tears over President Trump's executive order on immigration.

Schumer on Sundaychoked up as though he was crying during a press conference where he attacked Trump's executive order temporarily banning immigration from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa over terrorism fears, called the action "mean-spirited" and "un-American."

Many believe that Schumer's tears were fake, including Trump. The New York Democrat tweeted out a picture of the Statue of Liberty and said that it was crying.

Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt asked Shaw what his message to Schumer is. Shaw agreed with Trump that Schumer's tears were fake before dismissing the Senate minority leader.

"It's like what Trump said, that was so fake," Shaw said. "You know, I've been to funerals, candlelight vigils, you want to see real crying and hurt people, why don't you show up there."

"I know a lot of parents who cry every day, including myself," Shaw continued. "That's all we do is think about our loved ones, and to see him crying for terrorists and people we don't even know who they are when he has Americans here, that he gives us no support, you know I could care less about Chuck Schumer."

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Here are some things you might not know about Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, as Donald Trump makes his choice for vice president. For instance, Pence, a born-again evangelical, was raised a Catholic and idolized John F. Kennedy. (Dwight Adams/IndyStar Wochit

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during the Indiana Republican Party Spring Dinner April 21 in Indianapolis.(Photo: Darron Cummings, AP)

This story was originally published on July 15, 2016.

On Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will take the oath of office to become Donald Trump's vice president.

Whetheryour reaction to the news was "Mike Who?" or you just need a refresher on his two-plusdecades inpolitics, here's what you should know about the 50th governor of Indiana.

Pence has long said his approach togoverning is informed not by party, but by his faith and his love of the Constitution.

He's staunchly anti-abortion rights, and while in Congress heled the federal government to the brink of shutdown in 2011 in a failedattempt to de-fundPlanned Parenthood.

A born-again evangelical Christian, Pencehas also been a strong proponent of religious freedom, and believes marriageshould bebetween a man and a woman.

In addition to his faith, his views on governancewere strongly influenced by Russell Kirk, a fountainheadof modernconservative thought,who wrote "The Conservative Mind."

"The conservative is animated by the principle of driving toward the ideal of solutions that are grounded in economic freedom and individual liberty, but also understanding that compromise is part of the conservative approach to governance," Pence told IndyStar in a 2015 interview,referring to Kirk's philosophy. "I don't believe in compromising principles, but I do believe in finding a way forward on the basis of authentic common ground."

(Photo: Kelly Wilkinson/IndyStar)

Pence and his five siblings grew up inColumbus, Ind., in a family of devout Catholic churchgoers. His parents weren't especially political, he told IndyStar in a 2012 profile, but as a young man, figures likeJohn F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. inspired him to get involved in politics.

He volunteered for the Bartholomew County Democratic Party in 1976 and voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980.

It wasn't until college, when he met his future wife, Karen,at an evangelical church that he became a born-again Christian. A history major at Hanover College,Pence said hispolitical views, too,began to shift.

"I started to identify with that kind of common-sense conservatism of Ronald Reagan,"Pence told the IndyStar, "and before I knew it, I decided I was a Republican and moved up here in Indianapolis in 1983 to go to law school."

(Photo: Star file photo)

In the U.S.House of Representatives,Pence's championing of conservative social issuesgained him the most attention, but he also fought to shrink the size of government, showing a willingness to buck party leadership to do so.

As a freshman in 2001, he opposed the No Child Left Behind policy supported by President George W. Bush, a fellow Republican. That law seeks to raise student performance and increase accountability for educators. Pence calls it an unfunded mandate that grew government.

During Pence's second year in office, he opposed another GOP-favored initiative: the Medicare prescription drug expansion.

In later years, he persuadedRepublicans to cut spending in the federal budget before approving money for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in 2005. He also opposed the bank bailout in 2008, leading to Congress abandoning a plan to buy financial institutions' most toxic assets.

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Over the objections of the business community and LGBT rights groups, Pence in 2015 signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, setting off the biggest controversy of his political career.

Proponentssaid RFRA was needed to add another layer of protection for exercising one's religious beliefs free of government intrusion. The law in essenceprohibitedthe government fromintrudingon a person's religious liberty unless it could prove a compelling interest in imposing that burden and do so in the least restrictive way.

Opponents, however, feared it could be used to discriminate against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender peoplein the name of religion. Legal experts said it could have allowed people to raise religious freedom objectionstoexisting human rights ordinances that extend anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The bill's passage sparked a national firestorm.National media outlets swarmed Indiana,and major employers and conventions threatenedto boycott the state. There was even an unsuccessful movement torelocate theNCAA Men's Final Four, which was held in Indianapolis less than two weekslater.

The weekend following thebill signing, Pence attempted to defend RFRA and pour water on the fire. Instead, he may have only fueledit.

In a nationally televised interview,ABC's GeorgeStephanopoulos asked Pence six times whether the new law would allow a business to discriminate against gay couples.Six times,Pence ducked the question.

"This is where this debate has gone, with misinformation," Pence said. "We've been doing our level best, George, to correct the gross mischaracterization of this law that has been spread all over the country by many in the media and the online attacks against the people of our state. I'm just not going to stand for it."

The interview was widely criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike, who said he didn't do enough to dispelthe idea that Indiana was intolerant of the LGBT community.

(Photo: Robert Scheer / The Star)

Shortly after its passage, the Indiana General Assembly passed a so-called "fix," which Pence signed into law. ItpreventsRFRA from eroding local human rights protections. That, too, drew criticism, this time much of it from the right: TheIndiana Pastors Alliance said they felt "betrayed" by Pence and lawmakers for tweakingthe original law.

In some ways, Indiana was the first major battleground for the religious freedom movement. Subsequently,Mississippi and North Carolina passed even stronger religious freedom protections, leading to similar outcry, but so far, neither state has backtracked.

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Then-Rep. Pence's proposal would have createda temporary guest-worker program that would require illegal immigrants to leave the country before they could enroll. Butit went nowhere in the House, and angered many Republicans.

Pence has said his views on immigration were informed by his family's own experience.His grandfather, Richard Michael Cawley, was a Chicago bus driver who immigrated to the United States from Ireland through Ellis Island in the early 1900s.

As governor, he recalled speaking to President George W. Bush in 2006 about the reform proposal."I said, 'We're a nation of immigrants. I don't just get it. I lived it.'"

On other immigration matters, his stances have more closely aligned with his fellow conservatives.

In 2014, he joined a multi-state lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's executive order that would have protected5 million undocumented immigrants from being deported. A deadlocked Supreme Court this year blocked the order from taking effect.

More recently, he opposed settling Syrian refugees in Indiana, joining at least 22 other governorsafter reports suggested one of the Paris bombers may have posed as a Syrian refugee to enter France.

Pence's polite demeanor would strike a stark contrast with that of Trump, who likes to give his opponents names such asCrooked Hillaryand Lyin' Ted.

But in his first two campaigns for office in 1988 and 1990, Pence did go negative something he later said he regretted.

In a commercial described at the time as the most negative in Indiana history, an actor dressed as a sheik thanked Pence's opponent, former U.S. Rep. Phil Sharp, for the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

Afterward he wrote anessay entitled "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner," in which he denounced his own actions.

"I think negative personal attacks have no place in elective politics, Pence said during his run for governor in 2012. I just think, as I wrote back in 1991, that negative campaigning I now know is wrong. It's wrong to use one's brief moment in a political debate to talk about what's wrong with your opponent, as opposed to what's right with your ideas.

Of course, a tightre-election fight this year has challenged his ability to stick to that principle.

Pence assured a crowd of party insiders at the Indiana Republican Party's Spring Dinner last year that he was readyfor a fight, and promised a different sort of campaign than they'd seen from him in the past.

(Photo: Michelle Pemberton / Indy Star)

Internal documents obtained by IndyStar in 2015 showedPence's administration had developed plans to starta state-run taxpayer-funded news outlet that would make pre-written news stories available to Indiana media, as well as sometimes break news about his administration.

The plan quickly became the object of ridicule across the nation, drawing comparisons to state-run media in countries such as North Korea and China. Oneoutletdubbed the Pence news service "Pravda on the Plains."

Within the week, Pence killed the idea, saying plans for theJustIN website would be replaced with an overhaulof the state's online press release system.

Prior to the "Pravda on the Plains" misstep,Pence was long seen as a friend to the press on Capitol Hill. He was widely regarded as accessible and friendly by the D.C.press corps.He alsointroduced a bill that would have made it harder to subpoena reporters.

As governor, he vetoed bills that criticssaid would have limited access to public records. One, vetoed this year,would havepermitted private colleges and universities to withhold records incases that involved accidents, complaints and suspected crimes without arrests. The other, from 2015, would have allowed public agencies to charge hourly fees for record searches.

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Under Pence's watch, Indiana has routinely appearedamong the top 10 states for having a "business-friendly" climate, thanks in large part to the state's low corporate taxes.

A 2013 study showed Indiana businesses have the 7th lowest tax burden in the nation, and it's likely droppedsince then.In 2014, he signed a bill reducingthe corporate income tax to 4.9 percent from 6.5 percent by 2021, making it the second-lowest in the country. And he's proposed even further cuts to business taxes, pressing lawmakers tophaseout the business personal property tax entirely.

With this bill, we give counties the opportunity to incentivize additional investment in new technology and heavy equipment, Pence said at the time. We make it easier for companies to expand and create jobs here in Indiana.

The unemployment rate has fallen from 8.4 percent when he took office in 2013, toaround5 percent today, though critics complain that wages remain below the national average.

The state also has a AAA bond rating,something Pence frequently touts on the campaign trail as evidence of his fiscal prowess.

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Study: Indiana has a light bite in business taxes

In January 2015, after months of wrangling withthe Obama administration, Pence won approval to expand Indiana's own brand of Medicaid that injects personal responsibility into the healthcare program for the poor.

Pence said the Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, a revamped version of a program started by then-Gov. Mitch Daniels, wentbeyond standard Medicaid expansion by requiring that participants contribute to the cost of their care.

"I believe Medicaid is not a program we should expand. It's a program that we should reform and that's exactly what we're accomplishing," Pence said at the time. "HIP 2.0 is not intended to be a long-term entitlement program. It's intended to be a safety net that aligns incentives with human aspirations."

With the approval, Indiana became the 28th state to expand Medicaid, along with the District of Columbia, and the fifth to receive a waiver.But none of the other states' programs go quite as far as Indiana when it comes to pushing the personal responsibility piece, experts said.

The expansion was expected to make as many as 350,000 low-income Hoosiers eligible for new benefits.

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Although Indiana is a redstate Republicans control both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly by wide margins Pence was facinga closerace against Democratic opponentJohn Gregg this November if he didn't join Trump's ticket.

(Photo: IndyStar 2013 file photo)

The race would have beena rematch of 4 years ago, when Pence narrowly defeated Gregg by 3 percentage points. But the RFRA controversy alienated many moderates, driving Pence's negatives up. A poll taken inlate 2015, six months after RFRA,showed just47 percent of Hoosier residents approved of Pences performance a big drop compared to Pences approval rating of 62 percent in the same poll a year earlier.

Two polls taken this spring gave Pence a 4-point edge over Gregg, a slim gap that fell within the polls' margins of error.

Pet rabbit "Marlon Bundo," is carried off the plane of Vice president-elect Mike Pence as he arrives with his wife Karen Pence and daughter Charlotte Pence, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)(Photo: Alex Brandon, AP)

Joining the Pence family as they madetheir move to Washington, D.C., were twocats named Oreo and Pickle and ablack-and-white rabbit named Marlon Bundo.

Yes, Marlon Bundo.

Pencetweeted a photoof the family with the pets mid-air, thanking the U.S. Air Force for the ride. Bundo's eyesseemed wide with excitement, while the cats seemed more casual about the experience.

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Latest poll: Race for governor remains tight

IndyStar reporters Chris Sikich, Amy Bartner and Tony Cook contributed to this report.Call IndyStar reporter Brian Eason at (317) 444-6129. Follow him on Twitter: @brianeason.

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