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Revealed: How immigrants in America are sending $120 BILLION to their struggling families back home
Mail Online ^ | January 31, 2013 | Simon Tomlinson

Posted on 01/31/2013 11:38:18 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Migrants working in the United States sent a staggering $120 billion back to their families last year, it was revealed today.

The amount of money being sent by migrants across the entire world reached $530 billion last year, making it a larger economy than Iran or Argentina, the data from the World Bank showed.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; america; borders; corruption; democrats; fraud; govtabuse; immigrants; obama; remittance; world
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Interesting diagram at link. For many immigrants, America is a money laundering operation! The only thing America exports is its currency!
1 posted on 01/31/2013 11:38:27 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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2 posted on 01/31/2013 11:41:06 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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Y’all know what Thomas Sowell says about this, right?


3 posted on 01/31/2013 11:41:49 AM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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This author screwed the pooch on the very first word.


4 posted on 01/31/2013 11:41:56 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Yup. If they are sending that amount of money overseas, then they better stop bitching about this immigration overhaul BS.


5 posted on 01/31/2013 11:42:47 AM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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Y’all know what Thomas Sowell says about this, right?

No, what does he say?

6 posted on 01/31/2013 11:43:58 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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The Fed is exporting currency primarily via illegals, the drug trade, and oil. They print it and it doesn't stay home to "cause inflation." Instead, it is the direct export of American wealth: your home, your retirement, and your children's inheritance.

Aren't they generous!

7 posted on 01/31/2013 11:46:55 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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How so? Do you have a problem with the word “migrants?”


8 posted on 01/31/2013 11:55:34 AM PST by kabar
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Around here - Northern Palm Beach County - it all goes to Guatemala. Anchor babies in strollers on every corner.


9 posted on 01/31/2013 11:56:00 AM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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The plan is to bring all these relatives to the US and put them on welfare, SSI, SS, Medicare etc. That will slow the outflows,but increase the cost.


10 posted on 01/31/2013 11:57:49 AM PST by Oldexpat
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The amount of money being sent by migrants across the entire world reached $530 billion last year, making it a larger economy than Iran or Argentina, the data from the World Bank showed.

This is a global issue. It is also an incentive for the Third World to send more and more of its population to the developed countries as a matter of policy. Is it any wonder why the Mexican government doesn't clamp down on its border with the US? They get more in revenue from their nationals in the US than they collect in oil revenue.

11 posted on 01/31/2013 12:01:46 PM PST by kabar
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Big deal. Its their money. They can do with it as they please.

Now, can do something about expelling the ILLEGAL aliens and securing our borders?


12 posted on 01/31/2013 12:03:14 PM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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The guys I know all have two families - one in Guatemala and one in the states. The pretend families they produce here (without stop, mind you) are just cash cows that allow them to send most of their earnings home.


13 posted on 01/31/2013 12:03:29 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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Just think, if we had looser border control, they could ALL come here and there would be no need to send the money out of the country. Problem solved. /sarc


14 posted on 01/31/2013 12:08:34 PM PST by Optimist
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Ok...so can we END FOREIGN AID to all of those countries NOW?


15 posted on 01/31/2013 12:13:37 PM PST by montag813
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It is also an incentive for the Third World to send more and more of its population to the developed countries as a matter of policy

The way things are going here, we are soon likley to be exporting our people to better economic countries and sending that wealth back to the USA (sarc, sort of).

16 posted on 01/31/2013 12:17:59 PM PST by llevrok (Unlike Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
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"They print it and it doesn't stay home to "cause inflation."

Interesting, so your point would be that the dollar is used unofficially as a trading currency in multiple countries. Because as you know, dollars are only good in the USA which means somehow they are coming back... thus inflation. So your theory would then suggest these black markets are somehow impervious to the laws of money supply.

17 posted on 01/31/2013 12:19:23 PM PST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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It is also an incentive for the Third World to send more and more of its population to the developed countries as a matter of policy.

As we continue to export mechanized agriculture there is nowhere else for them to go but the sweatshops of the world. At a secondary level, the same is true for the export of manufacturing technology where printed money is loaned for big industrial projects.

Yep, it's global.

18 posted on 01/31/2013 12:22:02 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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Because as you know, dollars are only good in the USA which means somehow they are coming back... thus inflation.

Not true for a large fraction of it. There is a reason it is called "reserve currency." It's used for trade.

Black markets the world over accept dollars.

19 posted on 01/31/2013 12:24:55 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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