Dear Mr. Trump: February 12, 2017

Dear Mr. Trump;

Having US citizens pay a 20% tax on avocados and everything else imported from Mexico is not my idea of “...having them pay for the wall”.

So as a means to pay for this costly infrastructure, may I make a suggestion?

Have US Customs and Border Protection open up gift shops at all our southern boarder crossings. Oh, all right; allow private venture capital entrepreneurs to open up gift shops at all our southern boarder crossings.

Anyone not allowed into the country – and the numbers will be HUGE - will be told to “Exit through the gift shop”. Suggested slogan for merchandise: “I paid $6,000 to my coyote and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. 

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