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Trump team weighs order to force banks to make sure customers are citizens to keep or create accounts (www.independent.co.uk)

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Donald Trump is considering a possible executive order that would require banks to make sure customers are U.S. citizens to create or keep their accounts, according to a new report.

The proposed action, reported byThe Wall Street Journal, would see banks collect information on individuals’ citizenship through requests for a new category of documents in order to open the accounts.

The Independent has contacted the White House for confirmation or further information about reports of the executive order, which has reportedly raised eyebrows among some banks in recent days.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

So if someone is a permanent resident are they just expected to keep their money under their mattress?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Their what now? That's ICE's money. After the pulled the immigrant out of his bed, that money was just laying there. Nobody owns it, so it's finders keepers. /s

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

No need for the /s. In the Land of the Free the swine can just keep it. Legally.

(Technically it has to be involved in a crime, but ICE are criminals, so anything they do is by definition involved in a crime. And it's not like technicalities have ever stopped other pig breeds from stealing people's cash anyway.)

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Correction, it doesn't need to be involved in a crime, the cops just need to pretend to think it might have been.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I didn't even need to click on the link to know it pointed to civil forfeiture. The fact that they're not required to destroy whatever they steal creates one hell of a perverse incentive to keep doing it.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

You don't even need to be a permanent resident now, you just have to have a taxpayer ID number (a TIN).

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

No, they should put it in the safest store of value Trump Coin, or whatever crypto BS his sons are hocking these days.