On Sunday, Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, suggested that a reduction in wrongly-issued tax credits, primarily to Mexicans, could pay for the proposed wall on the border between the US and Mexico.
In an interview on the ABC news program, This Week, Sessions said the wall will be funded in one manner or another. He added that $4 billion of excess payments per annum could be one way in which the US government is able to fund the construction of the border wall. This amount is used as undeserved tax credits to individuals, most of whom are Mexicans, according to a report from the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury.
The report cited by Sessions appears to be that from July 2011. It stated that as much as $4.2 billion of refundable tax credits have been to immigrants with no authorization to work in the US, although the nationalities of those people were not mentioned anywhere in the report.
Also on Sunday, the Trump administration was criticized for its continued focus on the border wall by Democrats. Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, called the wall expensive, immoral, and unwise on Meet the Press, on NBC. Former Democratic Congressional leader, Xavier Becerra, now a California Attorney, also slammed the plan, calling the wall a “medieval situation” to try to fix the country’s broken immigration system, and saying she could not understand who could think it was a good idea.