Posted on 06/14/2004 7:47:14 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
I won't be. He's done dumb stuff before.
Now is where I get to tell you to stuff your Mexican apologist agenda and STFU! I don't know if Fox's check to you is in the mail but I have to tell you no one is buying it. You are only the latest of Mexico's agents to fail convincing us that their leeching of our resources is good for anyone other than traitors enriching themselves from near-slave labor and the elitists who control the Mexican government while using us to get rid of citizens who don't meet their criteria of whiteness. Fox and his Spanish Castilian pals have been getting over at the expense of thousands of educated people from other countries trying to get here legally. Mexico has done nothing but promote corruption and crime while perpetuating a system of government that would collapse if we stopped acting as their personal welfare state.
Rethink your position or put a sock in it. Too many of our border Freepers suffer every day for the likes of you attempting to legitimize the unacceptable. Better yet, move to Mexico and rescind your American citizenship.
Yep. I personally think he gets a woodie every time he makes our elected jellyfish go swimming away in fright with a collective case of the vapors.
Remittances ARE foreign aid. Do you have any knowledge at all of international politics, and the FTAA?
Exactly.
Regularizing them would be rewarding them for violating our laws. How about increasing the number of legal immigrants that we let in each year and then collect taxes from them.
The Federal Reserve loves printing money that doesn't return to inflate the US economy.
First Data Corporation is setting up a fascistic NGO because they are the arbitors of good governance? Good governance a la the United Nations where business IS the government and citizens of nations have no right to borders, their culture and their country because it interferes with commerce?
Why do you support a corporation that is clearly disrespects the constitutional authority of Congress to regulate foreign aid? The internationalists that want to dissovle our borders agree with you.
A river of gold
Every month, Lucas Zelaya, a supervisor at a Washington, D.C., parking garage, sends at least $200 to his mother in San Alejo, his hometown in El Salvador. His remittances, together with those made by millions of other migrant workers in the United States, snowball into billions of dollars a year, a massive movement of capital that has already surpassed the financing multilateral lending agencies provide Latin America and the Caribbean...
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Migrant workers are also being courted by authorities in Latin America. Mexico’s president Vicente Fox, who calls these expatriates “heroes,” has appointed a cabinet-level representative to mind Mexican migrants’ affairs. He even raised the issue of remittances at the Summit of the Americas held in April 2001 in Quebec City, Canada, where he urged other Western Hemisphere nations to work to cut the costs of wiring funds.
http://www.iadb.org/idbamerica/English/OCT01E/oct01e3.html
That reminds me very much of one of Lord Cornwallis' speeches in The Patriot. Or loosely quoting one of the Soviet Union's leading lights:
"Some day we will hang all of the capitalists -- with a rope they gladly sold to us."
From a really skewed viewpoint: "It's not the principle of the thing, it's the money."
Vicente Fox calls illegal immigrants "heroes".
Sorry I stepped into this, maybe First Data has the right to dupe poor stupid Mexicans and buy Congressmen with the money, and I should just respect their freedom to do so. I guess being troubled by living in this in-between world where alien workers are not fully legal, but the things they do are not fully illegal, and the people who make a buck off of them are always legal, is just my personal problem, and has no place in the national debate.
One of the Asst. Treasury Sec.'s was quoted as saying that he had a high-level meeting at the summit in Georgia last week to help to facilitate these transfers...make them "easier" for people.
Funny how this shows up just afterward, is it not?
The reduction of remittance fees has been discussed at great length at the Summit of the Americas. It is one of the requirements for Mexico to join the FTAA. Our fawning DC politicians will do anything so that Mexico signs on to the FTAA.
I would support such a tax ONLY if it went directly into construction of a high-tech barrier on the Mexican border on which anything attempting to cross to a depth of 25 feet would be vaporized.
Your opinion means much in the national debate. Sure, you're in Wasington State, but the problem is spreading.
I live right on the Mexican border. Last Thursday a big bunch of illegals were busted in my front yard. It was grand and glorious, but nobody confratulated me for not decorating my mantle piece with their heads.
Nope, there are members of this forum who would have whined bitterly because their cheap lettuce, cheap lawn care, and cheap slave labor were threatened. Never mind that every time I or my neighbors have to repair property damage, home burglaries, or vehicle theft we're subsidizing their nice little standard of living...
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