内容摘要：for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COIVD-19 pandemic.

for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COIVD-19 pandemic.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration think tank, acknowledges that limiting, banning or taxing remittances would make it more difficult for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.“One of the main reasons people come here is to work and send money home,” Krikorian said. “If that’s much more difficult to do, it becomes less appealing to come here.”

Legislation to control remittances — through taxes on money transfers, both internationally and domestically — has been proposed in 18 states in the past few years. Almost all of those efforts have been voted down.The exception is Oklahoma, which in 2009 passed a tax on remittances: a $5 fee on any wire transfer under $500 and 1% on any amount in excess of $500.Steven Yates, who is now a senior research fellow at the Heritage Institute, wrote for the America First Policy Institute that every state should adopt this policy as a way to combat the impact of illegal immigration.

Other high-ranking Trump administration officials have also supported efforts to tighten controls on remittances. Vice President JD Vance, as an Ohio senator in 2023, co-sponsored the WIRED Act, which would have imposed a 10% fee on remittances out of the U.S.President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, May 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FIle)

President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, May 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FIle)

The intention of the bill — which would allow people who could prove their citizenship to get the fee back as a refundable tax credit — was “penalizing illicit activity, such as drug and human smuggling.” The bill did not make it out of committee.drops Sept. 24 and the comedian is “going there,” by addressing reports that she was difficult to deal with behind the scenes of her

after 19 seasons. “I got kicked out of show business,” she says in the trailer.— Ryan Murphy has a new series on FX called

Niecy Nash stars as a detective who agrees to help a nun and reporter (Micaela Diamond) with a Catholic newspaper to investigate a series of gruesome murders. Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs tight end(otherwise known as Taylor Swift’s boyfriend), has a secret role in the show.