Mexicans send home record cash amount

The Orange County Register ^ | 08/30/03 | MARK STEVENSON

[socal_parrot]

The $6.3 billion this year exceeds take from tourism or foreign investment.

MEXICO CITY

[socal_parrot]

Income second only to the oil industry.

[South40]

Mexicans send home record cash amount

I have a better idea. How about we send Mexicans home in record amounts.

[Travis Bickel/Marine Inspector]

I have a better idea. How about we send Mexicans home in record amounts.

I like that idea.

[Gritty]

Buying illegal alien labor here is no different than buying goods made in Red China and shipped here.

The money goes overseas and out of the USA, so it does not contribute to our economy, only to our adverse balance-of-payments.

[Cultural Jihad]

A better idea is to re-establish a guest worker program. Anything else is needless swagger and bravado and the impotent spinning of wheels.

[weegee]

People say that migrant workers help the economy by taking the jobs no one wants. Getting $$$ out of circulation in the US does not help our economy.

And lest people blame this just on illegal immigrants from Mexico, there was an Indian on a work visa who sent his paycheck home in my department.

[tkathy]

This sucks our economy and our social services.

[South40]

People say that migrant workers help the economy by taking the jobs no one wants.

You are right...they do say that. But it is entirly untrue.

I'm in the construction industry in the San Diego area, and I seldom visit a jobsite that isn't overrun with cheap Mexican labor. Some may live here, but the overwhelming majority live over the border and come here to work each day. These aren't jobs no one wants. They're jobs that were taken by cheap Mexican labor who will work for far less. Even the Americans that still have jobs in the industry have been forced to work for less just to compete.

And it's not getting any better.

[Cultural Jihad]

... there was an Indian on a work visa who sent his paycheck home in my department.

[Gasp!] People oughtn't be allowed to do whatsoever they want to with their own money! Why, WE know what's best for other people, huh! The nerve of some people thinking they know what's best for their own money!

[Travis Bickel/Marine Inspector]

A better idea is to re-establish a guest worker program.

We already have many guest worker programs.

Employers either don't use them, because it's easier and cheaper to hire illegal aliens, or they use them to get cheap labor and lay off American workers.

[mtbopfuyn]

Not only are we supporting Mexico, we're illegal aliens free food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education all at American taxpayer expense. They can drive without licenses and insurance, and bring across their polluting trucks. They can't even pretend to lend moral support against terrorism, yet Washington calls them friends. Close the blasted borders already.

[Cultural Jihad]

We already have many guest worker programs.

Yes, we do, but where is the incentive when it takes a year to secure a legal visa? If an architect from Guadalajara wants work he can find it here through legal channels. But we do not have 4 million undocumented architects, doctors, and accountants here. We have 4 million undocumented farm workers, gardeners, dish washers, and ditch diggers.

[socal_parrot]

According to the LA Slimes, the underground economy of Illegals costs the state of California $7 billion in lost taxes alone. Not to mention the free services they receive.

[navyblue]

"[Gasp!] People oughtn't be allowed to do whatsoever they want to with their own money! Why, WE know what's best for other people, huh! The nerve of some people thinking they know what's best for their own money!"

Why my heavens to Betsy! That's almost as bad as people knowing what's best for their own country!

[RipSawyer]

"These aren't jobs no one wants. They're jobs that were taken by cheap Mexican labor who will work for far less. Even the Americans that still have jobs in the industry have been forced to work for less just to compete."

"And it's not getting any better."

I have a younger brother who has worked in construction for almost 30 years and he is working now for less than he was making 20 or more years ago. He is the type that most contractors are dying to find, a highly skilled carpenter who is knowledgeable about things other than carpentry and has a stable life, owns his home and everything else free and clear, goes to work every day, does not use drugs etc.
He has the capital to start his own business but just does not want the headache of running the show.
Construction wages used to be higher than most work in this area but now we have mexicans everywhere you turn, the roofing business has been almost completely taken over by mexican labor.

[Travis Bickel/Marine Inspector]

but where is the incentive when it takes a year to secure a legal visa?

It does not take a year to get a visa. Visa's can be processed in as little as 3 or 4 weeks.

We have 4 million undocumented farm workers, gardeners, dish washers, and ditch diggers.

Agreed, and there are visa's available for almost all of them, except maybe the ditch diggers.

The problem is that employers are lazy and would rather hire an illegal, then follow the law.

[dr_who_2]

He has the capital to start his own business but just does not want the headache of running the show.

Who's to blame for that?

[Cultural Jihad]

Supposedly someone will soon suggest machine-gunning the executive boardrooms as a Final Solution to undocumented economic refugees.

[gas_dr]

Here is the problem. They come and take our money illegaly. They do not pay taxes. They demand emergency medical care, adn the freaking courts say we have to give it them. This is the new american dream: get everything with nothing in return.

Here is the solution...all payment for any service rendered in America must have a mandatory 10% or 17% or whatever% flat tax that all workers, regardless of citizenship must pay. That is just the price of doing business. The remaining money is the workers to do with as they please. No loopholes, no IRS crap, just plain and simple. Now the government knows how much it can spend, and part two of this proposal is a balanced budget amendment, and that this flat tax can only be raised if it is raised on every person in america. That protects us from the government...

[GatekeeperBookman]

They are only taking the jobs no American would touch. Like some 5-8 million which pay in cash, no taxes taken out?? I would like that deal.