Having limits on currency exports or fees for sending dollars abroad has been done before. Sure the fees tend to create smuggling or black market operations, but where there is a huge disparity in the buying power of the money across a border, those fees would not need to amount to a reason not to pay the tax/fee and send the money legally.
Look, all people have to do anywhere, anytime, to survive. . . . is roll outta bed and go do something worthwhile.
If Mexico was an island, and there was no other country on the planet, people there would find a way.
If we impose legal penalties on employers who defy the law and hire illegals, and throw people in jail if they aid and abet folks without a legal status.... you know, give them room and board, or transportation, and jail illegals and deport them, the logic all changes. People will find something else to do that isn't that much trouble. Go get in line at the embassy or consulate and ask for proper papers. Lots of employers here would be able to do well hiring legal foreign workers.
The drug runners and gang bangers might not be willing to do that. Then we could focus on the criminal element, and still let a lot of good people come here for a better life.
Imposing a tax or fee on money exports has been done before. where there is a huge disparity in the purchase power of the money across a border, those charges might amount to an incentive for smugglers/black market operations, but if they are reasonable fees and laws commensurate for evading them, many people would choose the legal way.
We need to disincentivize the pattern that damages our sovereignty as a nation.
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