Sounds a lot like like Saddam, Koffi, France, Russia and Germany's oil for food and medicine, extravaganza, doesn't it?
Don't forget the drug runners and coyote operations, then.
The article reads like a PR plant.
The "clubs" are home town associations (HTA), nothing new in America's immigrant history. What is new is the active participation of consulate employees of Mexicorruption (short for the corrupt government of Mexico) actively setting up these IMO taxing entities.
In this manner Mexicorruption taxes its "citizens beyond borders." These are "group remittances" as opposed to sending money directly to family.
Look for a formal agreement to collect taxes on the incomes of of Mexicorrution's citizens beyond borders once the "guest worker" plan is accepted.
Sorry, those who thought the "guest workers" would help pay down the federal and states' debt may just be disappointed. Oh, and the thought that the "guest workers" would save Social Security? There's that pesky little matter of totalization and SS credit for past years of working here ILLEGALLY.
This could add to the problem and just may be the reason the President needs at least a trillion dollars to allow something like a measly four percent of FICA taxes to be diverted to private accounts.
BTW, pre-WWII Germans were the best users of HTA's until now. Many gathered up their stomachs and returned to country of their hearts as we got closer and closer to war.
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And that is the point many of us have been trying to make when the OBL screams, "but they assimilate". The Mexican government is our enemy.
FYI
Mexico has more Billionaires than Saudi Arabia CNN - LOU DOBBS TONIGHT ^ | 12/17/04-Aired 12/16/04 | cnn
Posted on 12/17/2004
DOBBS: Tonight, an estimated 15 million illegal aliens live in this country, at least half of them from Mexico. Many are here because they chose to flee crushing poverty in Mexico. But, in point of fact, Mexico is one of the richest countries in Latin America, amongst -- the millionaires, billionaires and its wealth concentrated in the hands of very few.
CASEY WIAN: They sneak across the border seeking jobs they can't find in Mexico. The question isn't why they come, it's why can't Mexico's economy support its own people. Nearly half of Mexico's population lives in poverty. Ten percent are indigent, existing on a dollar a day. Yet the nation has vast wealth. Mexico has more "Forbes" billionaires, 11, than all but eight other nations. It has more billionaires than Saudi Arabia, Switzerland or Taiwan. It also has more than 85,000 millionaires.
GEORGE W. GRAYSON, OF WILLIAM & MARY: There is a small economic elite who live like maharajas, and there's a political elite that protects them. Our border provides an escape valve which really lets the Mexican political and economic elite off the hook in terms of providing opportunities for their own people. WIAN : About 10 percent of Mexico's 105 million people live here in the United States. They're called national heroes by President Vicente Fox because this year they'll send home about $16 billion,***** more than any Mexican industry except oil.******
WIAN: Meanwhile, the gap between rich and poor is growing. So Mexico continues to export one of its most valuable assets, people.
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