Mexico in economic turmoil- dramatic drop in remittances from illegals working in the United States

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS ^ | Jan. 28, 2009 | M3Foreignnewsreport NAFBPO

[AuntB]

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[gubamyster]

ping

[Dr. Ursus]

If Americans can’t afford Pot and cocaine,we’re really screwed!

[P8riot]

no permita el choque de puerta usted en el extremo

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

F-em’!

[OB1kNOb]

30 percent of the nearly two million fellow countrymen who arrived in the country during the December season to spend the yearend holidays with their relatives have not returned to the United States for lack of a job which would guarantee their stay in the neighboring country.

600,000 stayed in Mexico? That's a good start. Only 19,400,000 left to go.

[mefistofelerevised]

The BIG positive of the economic crash is SOME of the illegals will leave. We don’t want or need them.
The big positve of the collapse the California’s state government is the idiots in Sacramento will have to eventually do what the citizens voted for in prop 87, before some commie judge decided we have to support illegals.f’Mexico

[AuntB]

“The BIG positive of the economic crash is SOME of the illegals will leave. We don’t want or need them.”

The down side is as Mexico fails economically, they’ll be back...for the freebies, if not jobs.

Many states in Mexico are in a state of war. Expect refugees, many of them.

[Trod Upon]

Obama could “create” far more than 2 million jobs just by kicking out the illegal Mexicans.

[hedgetrimmer]

I expect that the Marines will march once more to the Halls of Montezuma, but this time we will ‘integrate’ with Mexico rather than give it back.

[AuntB]

Check this nonsense out, hedgetrimmer.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174283/posts

[SmallGovRepub]

Actually, they might even increase their marijuana sales during the recession. Cocaine is a luxury item for casual users as opposed to addicts so cocaine sales might just drop, which would hurt Mexican drug trafficking organizations because according to the ONDCP anyway Mexican drug trafficking organizations gross about $3.9 billion from cocaine sales to Americans, around 28% of their total gross receipts for drug sales to Americans. They're only the middlemen for cocaine though which must first be purchased and smuggled from South America before it is smuggled into this country. Their big cash cow is marijuana (about $8.6 billion a year in sales to Americans, about 62% of gross), and Mexican marijuana is usually dirt cheap compared to American grown pot. They may actually increase their marijuana sales as pot smokers here switch to a cheaper product rather than spending several times as much for fancy connoisseur grade product. Who knows though? I was surprised to see that beer sales have been hurting, even for the cheaper product. In the past alcohol sales have been good during economic down times, but people have switched from super pricey premium product to less expensive alcoholic beverages.

[hedgetrimmer]

Gag! Corruption abounds!

[AuntB]

Well, it looks like most posters don’t see this as a problem. First we just give away the American dream to the poor ones, and now we’re selling the American dream....what the hell happened to earning it for yourself?

I give up.

[Travis McGee]

All the more reason we need to build the fence: the coming refugee flood.

[rllngrk33]

That's a good start. Only 19,400,00049,400,000 left to go.

There, fixed for accuracy.

[norton]

The history of the world will quite possibly pivot on the response the US has to mexico's apparently inevitable melt down:
Will we mobilize and hold out the resulting wave of people unwilling to do anything to fix their own problems?
Or will we set up welcoming centers and permanent 'refugee camps' for someone else's jetsam?

Mexican runners would likely be redefined as "Sonorans" by the UN anyway and they've already got the model up and running...in Palestine.

[AuntB]

“Will we mobilize and hold out the resulting wave of people unwilling to do anything to fix their own problems?
Or will we set up welcoming centers and permanent ‘refugee camps’ for someone else’s jetsam?”

Norton, I don’t even want to admit what I think it’s going to be.

[SmallGovRepub]

We've had investors visas for a long time, AuntB. They aren't new. It's a way to attract money and money makers to the U.S. They have to have at least a million bucks for the initial investment. Most are going to be multimillionaires or even billionaires and they are investing in businesses that create jobs for Americans. I don't see why that is so upsetting to you.

“First we just give away the American dream to the poor ones, and now we’re selling the American dream....what the hell happened to earning it for yourself?”

Have we really ever given the American dream away? Is the American dream just about being here? If you're here you have the American dream? I think it has more to do with what you do with your time here, whether you came from somewhere else or were born here.

It's one thing to be against illegal immigration, but these investors visas are a form of legal immigration. Yes these people have to pay for it by making substantial investments in job creating businesses, but what's so wrong with that? Most people in the world can't come here legally, AuntB. There is no legal path for most to immigrate to the United States. In the old days we let just about anyone come. We used to have almost restrictions on who immigrated into this country. That has stopped. Now the vast majority of legal immigration is family relationship based immigration. Immediate relatives of citizens and permanent residents are getting visas to come here. We also have some people coming over on non immigrant work visas, and in some cases those end up getting converted to immigrant visas. Those aren't so bad though because generally these people had to be well educated sharp folks just to get the work visas in the first place. To get a family type visa all they have to have is relatively clean criminal records. They can be dirt poor and uneducated. Those coming on investor visas have to have lots of money. They're generally going to be well educated and in most cases they're going to contribute a lot to our society, more than a lot of folks who were born here. That's good, right?

[mefistofelerevised]

ugh