How come it is OK for a Mexican?

Question

To transfer money back to their country. While Arabs do they have the FEDS on their door.
Isn’t there a law about money laundering?

Sorry, I am not trying to be mean. I am just asking a question.
I see "HISPANICS!!!!!!! " Line up to transfer money.
I was just asking a question. Knowing arabs that got in trouble?

Answer 1

Because Mexicans arent terrorist! Why only mention Mexicans, canadians and pretty much everyone else does it too, so why single out 1 country, and a neighbor of the US at that. Why is it ok for Americans to cross the border and not for mexicans. Why is it ok for people to send money to the US, but not the other way around (according to you)? Your question doesnt really make sense, sorry

Answer 2

Well for one reason, it is pefectly legal for any person to do a legal wiretransfer of funds to anyone. It's called "FREEDOM" and it's not something you loose just because your name is Gomez or Chavez. So that is why it is "OK"

I don't know how things work on Prejudice Planet where you live, but here in the real world, the FEDS have been "all over" wire transfers to Latin America for about three decades now. The increased attention to Arab Americans sending money to terrorist groups is NOT a matter of them recieveing more attention than Latin Ameircans, it is a case of them recieving the SAME attention that Latin Americans have been subjected to for about three decades now.

Wire transfers to Latin America were commonly used to launder drug moneys back in the 70s and 80s, since suitcases full of cash attract the attention of even the worst customs officers. Accordingly the DEA put together several multi-jurisdictional task forces to intercept narcotic trafficking profits through the identification, arrest and prosecution of money launderers and their organizations. They leaned on the locals to enforce all the regulations as tightly as they could, and almost all of the small wire transfer operations were put out of buisness.

Apparently you don't even know what money laundering is.
Money laundering incidentally is NOT the transfer of funds out of the country. Money laundering is when you take money from an illegtiamate buisness and disguise its origins so that it looks like legitimate income.

For example if Tony runs numbers and prostitution out of the back of a bar in Jersey City, and he cooks the book of the bar so it looks like the money came from liquor sales, (instead of writing "illegal numbers racket" in his accounting ledger) then he is "laundering money", even though no wire tranfers were involved.

So what you are saying is wrong, and what you are implying simply not true.

Answer 3

Yes there are anti money laundering laws. Transferring money from any country to America presents no problem if conducted in the proper manner. Consult with your bank. I'm sure the folks there will be happy to give you the information on how it is done the correct, legal way.

Answer 4

It all depends on the amount of money that you want to transfer. The govenrment asks about monetary transfers to Mexico over a certain amount. Due to the drug trade. So, whether you like it or not. We are at war in Iraq and Afghanastan. We are not at war with Mexico. So, the government watches monetary transactions to the middle east a little closer. It has nothing to do with racism. If we were at war with any country, we would monitor monetary transactions with that country.

Answer 5

Because a Mexican will send money to be spent on food, electric, housing, cars, family, doctors, the most basic of needs. The US is not heading a major world-wide operation against terrorists' groups located in MEXICO.

There are however, SEVERAL groups which try to kill US soldiers whenever they see them, send bombs to US buildings, buy some pretty bad chemicals when they get the chance, and dump oil on the black market.

Government agencies have a set amount of resources, they need to have some sort of profiling set up in order to be cost effective and GET SOMETHING DONE.

Answer 6

Arabs do it every day, too. The Feds look for patterns, senders, recipients, etc. because Arabs are more likely to be involved in terrorist activity than Mexicans. While a Mexican wouldn't hesitate to slice you open with a box cutter, they generally don't do it on airplanes.

Answer 7

money laundering is for rich people, trying to avoid tax
mexicans are using weston union for $500 at a time, about oh once a month, and anyamount over $500 is seized by the us gov, so even if they work for their money, it will be lost, unless they can prove that they earn that money, ie some sort of paychecks, since they're not legal and don't have real jobs, they just get ripped off, work for nothing, savvy?

Answer 8

Bad news, the US government watches money transfers to all points South probably harder and have been doing it for longer-They decided to call it "The War on Drugs"!

Inquiring Minds want to know!

LOL!!!

Answer 9

Money laundering is to move illegally acquired cash through financial systems so that it appears to be legally acquired. what you are describing is racial profiling and just as wrong.

Answer 10

Cause were bad like that. Plus we can slip things across the border havent u ever heard of Pancho Villa