New York Times
By Michael Shear
April 5, 2016
President
Obama said Republican presidential candidates have done damage to
American foreign policy with their comments, and he said he repeatedly
gets questions from foreign leaders about
“the wackier suggestions” by Donald J. Trump and other Republicans.
The
president, speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, said
Mr. Trump’s proposal to block remittances from Americans to families in
Mexico would not work and could cause more
illegal immigration from a damaged Mexican economy.
“The
notion that we are going to track every Western Union bit of money that
is being sent to Mexico, good luck with that,” Mr. Obama said.
Mr.
Trump was responding to a report in the Washington Post in which Mr.
Trump gave out more details about a proposal he made last summer to
“impound all remittance payments derived from
illegal wages.”
In
the proposal, made in a two-page letter, Mr. Trump said he would change
a rule in the USA Patriot Act to cut off funds sent to Mexico through
money transfers – and that the action could
only be stalled if Mexico paid between $5 billion and 10 billion to
build a wall along the border with Mexico.
The
president said that both Mr. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz are making
statements on the campaign trail that are not thought through and are
primarily for political consumption. He said Americans
expect presidential candidates to treat those issues seriously.
“They don’t expect half-baked notions coming out of the White House,” he said. “We can’t afford that.”
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