$14 Billion Dollars Back To Mexicali

GPB - Georgia Public Broadcasting

[onyx eyes]

Sunday, 10/23/05. Destination America, part one, is about the history of different people(s) coming to America. During the Mexican segment, and while showing the happy documented and undocumented people as a group who are celebrating a festival-mexicali-event in a city park in Chicago, the narrator states that although some only make $100.00 per week, they manage to always send money back home to their family and ...

Here, I lost something in the translation. Although the narrator was, speaking perfect english. ......"they send back a total of $14 Billion a year, to Mexico." (and then:) "with that money the Mexican government is able to build roads, and provide hospitals and schools for its citizens..."

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[onyx eyes]

Myself, all I can think of is -- how does that money get to Vincente Fox and crowd-(gang) .. if it is being sent home to mom and pop? Is there any record or photograph of a recent in the past eight-ten years or so, of a school or hospital or school or road being built by the Mexican government?

[MitchellC]

Um, because mom and pop spend it, increasing tax revenues?

[ClaireSolt]

The money goes to poor relatives, who, being well fed, make babies who become more poor Mexicans to flood our borders in years to come.