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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Well said.
My thoughts exactly.
Not our circus, not our monkeys.
That’s right!
These illegal aliens should do what E.T did and go home.
“But over decades, an entire ecosystem has developed around irregular migrants from Mexico and other countries.”
Like a nest of ants.
They’ll return with all kinds of knowledge about building a local business and building up their towns.
“Irregulars”? Is that our new euphemism?
And hopefully fix their own hellhole nation before immigrating to our great country.
“...Fix the nation you have...”
Great line!!!!!!
The key for the Mexican people!!!!!!!
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.
Matthew 7:24-27
They’re not saviors, they’re thieves.
I’d stop at the first half of your sentence.
If it is within his powers President Trump needs to slap a 50% tax, fee, whatever on these remittances.
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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.
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And your point is? We should worry about the fortunes of Mexicans who live on the crime of illegal aliens?
No thanks - bye!
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.
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