This town was built on migrants’ cash. Now it fears Trump’s deportations. | President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan could upend life in Mexican villages that depend on remittances from relatives in the United States.

The Washington Post ^ | January 5, 2025 6:30 a.m. EST | Mary Beth Sheridan

[No name given]

Well said.

[No name given]

My thoughts exactly.

[No name given]

Not our circus, not our monkeys.

[No name given]

That’s right!

[No name given]

These illegal aliens should do what E.T did and go home.

[thecodont]

“But over decades, an entire ecosystem has developed around irregular migrants from Mexico and other countries.”

Like a nest of ants.

[9YearLurker]

They’ll return with all kinds of knowledge about building a local business and building up their towns.

[9YearLurker]

“Irregulars”? Is that our new euphemism?

[No name given]

And hopefully fix their own hellhole nation before immigrating to our great country.

[JBW1949]

“...Fix the nation you have...”
Great line!!!!!!
The key for the Mexican people!!!!!!!

[falcon99]

Playing with words again: irregular migrants = illegals. And, stopping the flow of money from illegas in the US to their families in Mexico and all the other countries sending their citizens to the US illegally would put a huge dent in those here and those who want to come. Don’t know the figures, but I would bet those remittances are a huge part of the economy of some of those countries.

[gundog]

Matthew 7:24-27

[No name given]

They’re not saviors, they’re thieves.

[9YearLurker]

I’d stop at the first half of your sentence.

[Lurker]

If it is within his powers President Trump needs to slap a 50% tax, fee, whatever on these remittances.

L

[Billthedrill]

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.

Uh, who did that now? That would be the U.S. taxpayers. And if these immigrants were legal, their tax money went into that too. Either way it was still U.S. taxpayers.

[kosciusko51]

👍

[jmaroneps37]

And your point is? We should worry about the fortunes of Mexicans who live on the crime of illegal aliens?
No thanks - bye!

[FrankRizzo890]

And so it begins. Expect these stories for a while, and then they’re going to turn to “Look at the squalid conditions these people (illegal) people are forced to live in as they hide from that evil Trump”, followed by how women and children in Mexico are starving because Trump won’t let their (illegal) husband/father work in the US.

[4Liberty]