Mexican Migrants Sent Home Record $36 Billion in Remittances in 2019

ktla/AP ^ | FEBRUARY 4, 2020 | no byline

[a fool in paradise]

Mexican migrants working abroad sent home a record $36 billion in remittances in 2019...

It’s the highest level of remittances on record.

It’s also greater than the $25 billion in income Mexico receives from foreign tourism, or the country’s $22.4 billion in annual petroleum exports.

Mexico’s central bank said the average amount of each electronic transfer sent home was about $300...

[eartick]

Parasites.

No, no, no...they are migrants (spit)

[VideoDoctor]

It’s time to put a heavy tax on remittances without proof of citizenship or legal residence.

From your lips to Donald Trump's ear!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Maybe they’ll do something to repay us like bring in the Coronavirus.

[teeman8r]

Even a 10% tax on remittance will fund the wall.

[kabar]

No.

[kabar]

Those are global figures, not just from the US.

[central_va]

Start prosecuting employers that hire these invaders.

[kabar]

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/remittance-flows-by-country/

[Does so]

Would Saudi Arabia accept our deportees?

[tennmountainman]

Tax that money sent to Mexico.

[Londo Molari]

“Start prosecuting employers that hire these invaders”

THAT is exactly what needs to be done! Make very public examples out of 3 or 4 companies.

[central_va]

I would say the easiest undercover police sting operation would be to catch employers hiring illegals. Yet that NEVER happens.

[FlingWingFlyer]

When these flea-bitten bags ‘O’ crap say they only come to Gringoland “for a better life”, who the hell are they talking about? Themselves or their friends and relatives back home in their south of the border sh*tholes?

[Josa]

Anyone receiving public assistance who does this should have it revoked immediately. If they have money to send home, then they have more than enough to support themselves here without sucking off hard working taxpayers

[cymbeline]

If they’re sending the money back to help their families, they’re doing an admirable thing.

[God luvs America]

the question is how many of those Indians and Chinese are in the country illegally?

[AF_Blue]

Money transfer at Wal-Mart

[lodi90]

Taxing remittance sounds great but I wonder if this is mostly men sending money back home to wives/kids. They might just move the wives here if it got too expensive to send money back to Mexico.

[AK2KX]

This. Granted, we are in Canada, but my wife (a Canadian citizen) sends money every month to help the family (in Asia), and to buy medication for her chronically ill younger sister.

To seize the fruits of someone’s labour is simply wrong. Going after the employers who hire illegals is the only logical and moral choice.

[Right Wing Assault]

If we shut this down, they will figure another way to get the money into Mexico.