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Washington Post worries deported illegals will lower wages in Mexico
Washington Times ^ | March 4, 2017 | By Charles Hurt

Posted on 03/04/2017 3:41:51 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

No mouthpiece in Washington is a more reliable one for crazy leftists in the Democrat Party than the Washington Post, which is out with yet another head-scratcher on illegal immigration.

The story not only reminds us how far out of their depth these people are when they try covering illegal immigration accurately, it also reminds us how hilariously obtuse they are about their own fake news and biases.

“In the wake of new enforcement policies announced by the Trump administration last week that dramatically expand the pool of undocumented immigrants targeted for deportation, Mexico is bracing for an influx of men and women like them,” Antonio Olivo reports from Mexico City. “Their arrival — along with a surge of undocumented immigrants leaving the United States voluntarily — promises to transform Mexican society in the same way their departure did.”

Interesting here how disruptive all these legal Mexicans returning to Mexico is considering how we have been told for years now that all the illegal Mexicans streaming illegally into our country is no big deal and if you think it is disruptive then you are a xenophobe.

We shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for Mr. Olivo to be branded as some kind of callous “alt-right” racist. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: aliens; economy; fakenews; mexico; wages; wapo
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The Compost worries about wages in Mexico, but not in the US.

I bet they sell a lot of newspapers in Mexico

21 posted on 03/04/2017 4:36:06 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Well! “Boohoo...shit in my shoe!” Who gives a damn about Mexico? They are a 3rd world country anyway and the only reason they have the economy they have is because we have been shipping our manufacturing over there while they have been shipping their “peasants” over here.

SCREW EM’


22 posted on 03/04/2017 4:43:46 PM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

23 posted on 03/04/2017 4:45:52 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: ptsal

They’re worried they’ll have to pay more to have their lawns mowed.


24 posted on 03/04/2017 4:52:59 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Another marketing opportunity:

Lawn Mowing Robots


25 posted on 03/04/2017 4:59:12 PM PST by ptsal
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To: ptsal

Scale-up a Roomba!


26 posted on 03/04/2017 5:03:58 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: arthurus
Sure, fewer regulations for the illegals and H!B visa crowd will solve all our problems.

How are ignoring illegals or paving the streets with H1B Visas not examples of regulatory capture, the very worst sort of regulation?

The damn labor market is completely distorted at both ends of the spectrum without even considering regulations and other Federal BS. It's really simple, put Americans back to work and throw the foreign labor out.

No one is going to give a damn about the theoretical ideal when they can't afford food without Foodstamps and can't pay to heat their shack in the winter. Americans working again is the start of the solution.

Deregulation so far has deregulated the banks and concentrated corporate control into fewer hands so their margins are fatter which means nothing to 99% of the population. If you want fewer regulations you have to do it in tandem with shedding the foreigner labor that's here on both the high and low end of the spectrum or it's going to be seen as nothing but making still fatter margins for the 1%.

The money men that run the country are never going to give a damn about regulations, meaning nothing will be done, unless and until they have to make their money here in the US where those regulations impact them. Until then they can be for whatever democrat fascist regulation the self-rightous democrat thugs propose and it doesn't cost them a dime.

27 posted on 03/04/2017 5:20:23 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Haha great article.


28 posted on 03/04/2017 5:23:16 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yes, more workers competing for jobs in mexico will lower the wages in mexico, AND, fewer workers in the US will increase wages in the US. That’s the way it works.


29 posted on 03/04/2017 5:28:09 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Rashputin

I said WITH A CONTROLLED BORDER. You are not interested in anything but the terms, though. Fair Trade is Fair therefore good. Free Trade isn’t fair because it isn’t called Fair Trade. Learn some economics to supersede your nonsensical Green theory.


30 posted on 03/04/2017 5:31:26 PM PST by arthurus (.)
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To: Rashputin

Fair Trade people are control freaks no better than Mercantilists.


31 posted on 03/04/2017 5:32:10 PM PST by arthurus (.)
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To: arthurus
Green theory?

So someone doesn't agree completely with you it's time for you to revert to the trash you say on Huffpo?

I saw the, "with controlled borders", but that's not all it takes. It takes ending the corporate welfare of H1B Visas and ending a lot of tax shelters, too. Something I figured didn't fit with your focus on regulations.

Other than that, screw you. Sometimes people don't agree in detail and you see that as a reason to go snark and azzhole. It just shows that you don't care about anything but arguing and posting BS or else you would have asked why I had something more to say in spite of your "with controlled borders".

have a lovely little day

32 posted on 03/04/2017 5:47:16 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Mexico is bracing for an influx of men and women like them

Influx?


33 posted on 03/04/2017 5:53:55 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I could CARE LESS about what happens in Mexico, what happens to Mexicans, etc. They are a failed state, there is not a single government agency there that is not rotten and corrupt to the core. The true government is the drug cartels. If the libtards want to create “white guilt” and rain it down upon themselves, I don’t care. I had nothing to do with Mexico’s problems, but they probably had plenty to do with ours, draining our welfare monies, taking from our Social Security monies funds they were never entitled to, wiring tons of U.S. funds back to Mexico, etc. BUILD THE WALL. Top it with lots and lots of razor sharp wire.


34 posted on 03/04/2017 5:54:58 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Brad from Tennessee
along with a surge of undocumented immigrants leaving the United States voluntarily

So much for the "You can't deport them all." meme.

35 posted on 03/04/2017 6:02:04 PM PST by Oatka
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To: Brad from Tennessee
along with a surge of undocumented immigrants leaving the United States voluntarily

I wonder about the claims that the influx from Mexico has been reversed, let alone that we are now seeing a surge of illegals leaving the US.

But if we ever start strict workplace enforcement including punishments for business owners and officers who hire illegals, then we really would see a surge of illegals departing.

The globalists at the Washington Compost would really have something to hand wring about then.

36 posted on 03/04/2017 6:09:49 PM PST by Will88
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To: arthurus
That means a $15 an hour American (market rat $15, not union) produces more than 15 $1 per hour Malaysians. Businesses and industry would flood back into this country and employment would soar causing rising wages.?

Not if the American factory, equipment and knowhow is moved to Malaysia where the $1.00 per hour workers can be hired and trained, and then the product shipped to the US tariff free.

37 posted on 03/04/2017 6:15:08 PM PST by Will88
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Mexico will have a chance to solve the problems they claim we haven’t solved well enough. I wish them luck.


38 posted on 03/04/2017 6:42:46 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: jonrick46

“Mexico’s economic problems will come home to roost. It is time they make their economy available to everyone—not just the elite, light-skinned class whose ancestors come from the Spanish conquerors.”

Which is exactly why they’ve encouraged everyone for the past 25 years to head to the northern paradise.


39 posted on 03/04/2017 6:47:29 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Will88
There is no not if to it. It happens that way whenever the US government lightens up a bit. Read Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson It is out of copyright and at several locations on the net for reading on screen or downloading or you can buy it on Amazon or at numerous conservative sites. It doesn't teach Economics but how to think economically. If one reads it and understands the fairly common language then when one hears what sounds like a good idea to make a system to get richer or a scheme whereby the government is going to improve the situation for a group or the whole population one instantly runs through a chain of reasoning that tells him who will be hurt and how the whole economy will suffer for it. If one would understand Economics through and through then Von Mises, Friedman, Adam Smith, Bastiat, etc. But for just conditioning oneself to not be snowed by a politician it is Hazlitt. I made my four progeny read it once in jr hi school and again in high school. I have no socialist or progressive children nor will there be any such grandchildren. It is a fairly short book and the "one lesson" is the first chapter. The ensuing chapters are examples.
40 posted on 03/04/2017 7:14:16 PM PST by arthurus (.)
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