Wall of confusion: immigration policy follies.ARIZONA LAWMAKERS worried about illegal immigration "Illegal alien" and "Illegal aliens" redirect here. For other uses, see Illegal aliens (disambiguation). Illegal immigration refers to immigration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. have paired an old idea, an anti-immigrant wall, with a new one: a state tax on bank wire transfers to and from other countries. The state's House Appropriation The designation by the government or an individual of the use to which a fund of money is to be applied. The selection and setting apart of privately owned land by the government for public use, such as a military reservation or public building. Committee has approved an 8 percent tax on all out-of-country wire transfers, with the proceeds earmarked for building a wall at the border. Extrapolating from the estimated $20 billion that is wired from Arizona to Mexico each year, the measure's backers say it could raise up to $80 million annually. They argue that the levy would recover some of the tax revenue lost from illegals who work off the books not recorded in the official financial records of a business; - usually used of payments made in cash to fraudulently avoid payment of taxes or of employment benefits. See also: Book . Yet the punitive pu·ni·tive adj. Inflicting or aiming to inflict punishment; punishing. [Medieval Latin p  n tax would also hit law-abiding residents and
citizens. Maybe Arizonans just don't like wire transfers.
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