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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Don’t call it a “tax”. Call it a “processing fee”
Not migrant cash. OUR cash.
So what, I am suppose to be unhappy the criminals would be stopped from sending cash home if they get deported?
Illegal immigrant = criminal in the country -> GET THE F OUT!!!
This town’s not to be mistaken for the hundreds (thousands?) of towns that depend on drug barons for their survival.
If you do some research you’ll find that once upon a time Grace Slick was a stunningly beautiful woman.
I really do hope we place a huge tax on remittance out of the country
What do you mean ‘not our problem’?
These illegals are sucking us dry to send money back to their shithole countries.
FTA: “What will we do?” he asked. “How can we react as a community?”
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How about working to clean up your corrupt country so you can work there to support your village?
I never said otherwise.
Awwww.. Poor little economic pirates. F em.
Excellent news!
It’s Mexico’s problem, not the U.S.’s...
The untaxed hundreds-of-billions of dollars being funneled, annually, across the border for the past 40-years has resulted in American being a 3rd world Marxist cesspool...
Shutting the borders and deporting the 60-million diseased, filthy, migrant-invader vermin already inside the gates are just the first necessary steps in the 20-year war to return our former freedoms & liberties guaranteed under the now-defunct & ignored Constitution...
Annex Mexico. Get it over with. We need their coastlines, farmland, tropical fruits, coffee, and oil. When American businesses flock down there, it will scare the snot out of Mexicos rulers, the multinational businesses, and the cartels. Will create a middle class. If we rule we can export their fentanyl to Venezuela, China, and Iran for starters.
Do the same for Canada sans the tropical fruits and coffee..their government now a Marxist hellhole.
Get, at least, a few military bases and launch points on Greenland...we good.
I don’t care.
Get by any pay station on a Friday to see the flow on US dollars to Mexico and other countries, never to be spent on American businesses again. Just gone from out economy.
A 100% tax on remittances will make self-deportation a reality in two minutes. No “round ups” necessary.
Shut down the Western Union/Walmart $$$ transfers, to Mexico.
A 100% tax on remittances will make self-deportation a reality in two minutes. No “round ups” necessary.
Yes!
That and the cutting off of fed funds to ALL sanctuary cities/states .... which MUST include welfare bennies being paid to these folks.
Some living in Mexico even receive OUR welfare bennies.
Walmart gives a multiple hundred peso credit in a Walmart to the recipient of transferred funds.
My bet is that it has already started.
Mexico’s Constitution is explicitly Socialist. It’s going to stay a dump for the foreseeable future.
That’s sad........still not our problem. They have to come in the right way......
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