Posted on 01/05/2025 1:09:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
FRANCISCO VILLA, Mexico — Over the past 30 years, this corn-growing hamlet in central Mexico emptied out. Around half the 3,000 residents moved to the United States. As the migrants went north, the dollars flowed south.
They were construction workers and gardeners, cooks and nannies. They became the saviors of this village of tiny adobe homes. They helped establish the town’s first high school. Their donations paved the dirt streets. They bought computers for the classrooms. “The kids had no idea what they were,” recalled one of the town’s migrant benefactors, Rubén Chávez.
Now, a current of fear is running through a village tethered to Illinois, California and Oregon by the flow of remittances. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history” — taking aim at more than 11 million people living illegally in the United States. Nearly half are Mexican.
Trump “is coming in with full force,” Chávez told a meeting in the village hall on a recent afternoon. He looked around at men he’d grown up with, suntanned workers in baseball caps, who’d returned from the United States for the holidays. Many were now legal U.S. residents. But their neighbors and cousins weren’t. “What will we do?” he asked. “How can we react as a community?”
Trump built his campaign on restricting immigration, arguing that the border was out of control. Many Americans agreed. After all, illegal crossings shot to record levels under President Joe Biden, averaging 2 million a year in his first three years in office, before falling dramatically. Even big cities felt overwhelmed.
But over decades, an entire ecosystem has developed around irregular migrants from Mexico and other countries. They’ve not only become critical to sectors of the...
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Oh go fix your country.
Many similar stories from all outlets?
Gee could it be the journ-o-lists got their marching orders?
Imagine arguing that America needs to suffer so little towns in Mexico can thrive. Perhaps the Washington Post should ask Mexico why it doesn’t do more to help its people.
Mexico's Constitution is explicitly Socialist. It's going to stay a dump for the foreseeable future.
Bye.
Exactly. They can take their newfound skills and initiative back to their home country and put it to good use there.
If legal immigrants want to send money back to Mexico, they can. What’s stopping them? Illegal aliens do not have the right to work or live here. Apply for a work visa; if we get rid of all the illegals, there should be work visas available when the dust settles.
Any immigration package should include a 70% tax on remittances. To start.
Parasites hardest hit.
We built this city
We built this city on public dole
Built this city
Like Trump had said it’s our s***hole
Say you don't know me
Or recognize my face
Say you don’t care who is flown
In from an Air Force Base
Knee deep in the river
Climb the border fence
Too Many aliens
Filling up the tents
Hear the Mariachi
Listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city
We built this city it’s our s**hole
We built this city
We built this city on public dole
Built this city
Like Trump had said it’s our s***hole
Deport them all, by any means possible. But, before and while that’s happening, there needs to be a 25% fee attached to each remittance sent to any location outside the US, States and Territories.
Just be ready for tons of these sob stories from the leftist press.
I SAID YEARS GO THAT TRUMP SHOULD RAID WESTERN UNION & STOP THIS PRACTICE.
We built this city with Gringo cash...
They’ll have to find new sources of income. Perhaps this time they’ll find legal sources.
They were the saviors of that town with money they stole from the American economy, including the money they took from the American government.
Gee, thats just too bad parasites
Yeah, so?
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