A multibillion-dollar push by US President Donald Trump to tax money sent from the US abroad is likely to hurt poor Central American families the hardest while driving migrants to use informal, underground routes to send cash back home.
The “big, beautiful” tax bill passed by the US House of Representatives on Thursday included a 3.5 per cent tax on remittance transfers made by anyone who is not a US citizen or national.
The levy comes as part of a broader plan to try to halt illegal migration and deport more of the roughly 11 million undocumented migrants already in the country.
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