House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill (R-Ark.) said Wednesday he was skeptical of a White House executive order demanding banks play a larger role in blocking illegal immigration.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order May 19 warning banks not to extend “credit or financial services to the inadmissible and removable alien population.”
Speaking at a breakfast hosted by Puck, Hill suggested the order would be “challenging” for regulated financial firms to follow.
“I don’t know how that’s workable, personally,” Hill said. “The bank is not automatically on the hunt for people who are not in the country legally.”
