Posted on 02/01/2006 7:26:41 AM PST by Tyche
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Remittances sent home by Mexicans living abroad rose to US$20 billion (euro16.5 billion) in 2005, a 17 percent increase over the year before, the Bank of Mexico reported Tuesday.
Remittances climbed by more than US$5.3 billion (euro4.4 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2005 alone, the bank said. They totaled US$16.6 billion (euro13.7 billion) in 2004.
Remittances have been climbing steadily for years, surpassing the amount the country receives from tourism, which totaled US$10.7 billion (euro8.8 billion) in 2005.
"Allow" what? As for "who pays for porn", I guess the answer would be citizens, legal, and illegal immigrants - or do you mean to say that "porn is free"? So are drugs if you can grow / manufacture them - the cost to society from pornography is at least as great as illegal immigration - why no Minutemen organizations staked out across the San Fernando Valley looking out for that?
Because THAT is not the topic of discussion on this thread. I don't post on drug threads, I don't know enough about that problem yet to post intelligently, and I won't go posting from ignorance. I have a bit more pride than that.
Please, try to stay focused...'kay?
Wouldn't a wall stem some of those drugs from entering our country....escorted by men wearing Mexican Army uniforms? We're being invaded, if those were indeed Mexican soldiers, and all we hear are crickets.
I've got a couple of more: auto insurance to cover unlicensed/insured drivers. Getting more expensive every year. Costs to incarcerate lawbreakers who are not citizens. We have enough American criminals to feed.
What's up with the porn thing, anyway? It's already taxed. I'm not a fan of pornography, I just don't see what it has to do with the huge amounts of money crossing the border to other countries.
Well, it should be more of a priority than illegal immigration.
If I had to choose between that wall and the Statue of Liberty, I choose Lady Liberty.
$20 billion in porn generates a couple million in taxes every year - yippeee - you don't think that $20 billion in illegal immigration was taxed at all?
Make it so.
I am - everyone posting here about illegal immigration should instead get educated about more important issues and work to solve thos problems:
http://www.family.org/married/topics/a0025117.cfm
I would prefer to choose Lady Liberty as well. Unfortunately, President Fox has chosen to push his own people out of their own country, rather than improve life and economic opportunities for them. Now we have the problem of suspected terrorists sneaking in. That is a life threatening problem. They ain't hanging at Home Depot looking for work that my son could do.
Illegals pay taxes when they purchase food and clothes. That's about it. Some do have SSI, etc witheld from their checks, but not many.
The porn industry creates its own problems, and we are talking about remittances sent to Mexico and other points south.
This is probably the main reason that the Federal Government doesn't crack down too hard on the illegal immigration problem. If you could snap your fingers and seal the border this minute, the Mexican government would collapse. Then the U.S. would have to contend with the entire population of Mexico coming North, rather than just the ones looking for work. That would be a major crisis. I'm not sure how we would handle that.
Yes, right on, and on the PI level, do folks realize how many investigations we run on illegals using SSNs illegally acquired so that they can reap welfare benefits and be on payrolls? We have found up to four folks on one SSN. Yes, they were prosecuted and sent packing--for all that's worth. We have found that Contractors ARE pretty cautious who they hire, they can't help the SSN fraud and so far, 100% of those workers discovered either with fake SSNs or working while on Worker's comp were fired on the spot--good on them!
BTW, in San Antonio, there was a little group of Drs./Attys that had a thriving business on instructing how to circumvent being discovered (using SSNs and how to watch for PIs) doing this sort of thing under the guise of "Healthcare/Citizenship assistance" (Medicare/Medicaid fraud doncha know). "Oh no, we only offer advice on how to correct your illegal status", yeah, right.
clawrence said: "The illicit drug trade is estimated to be worth $50 billion in the U.S. ($400 billion worldwide), up from $1 billion 25 years ago. Why is THAT not a priority?
It IS a priority for most of us. Not Wash. DC. They sit by as tons of it flows over the border. They issue visas to aliens who grow it in our National forests and brew meth in every city. When illegal immigration and current "guest workers" are controlled, you will start to win the war on drugs.
Take this current poll!
Do you believe the president's continued confusion of “illegal immigration” with “immigration,” and “illegal alien” with “willing worker,” means there is no hope for meaningful border security or immigration reform?
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
Yes 94%
No 6%
Good news the material needed to build the wall wont need to be taken from the Statue of Liberty. So we can have both. Mexicans being able to come at will in defiance of our immigration laws and sovereignty has nothing to do with Lady Liberty.
I'm sure that's part of the thinking too.
I want terrorists and drug runners stopped, but not the vast majority of people who are simply trying to make better lives for themselves - don't throw the baby out with the bathwater - I'm sure there is some way to stop them short of completely sealing off the borders.
I never said the material needed to build the wall would be taken from the Statue of Liberty, so that's a strawman argument.
Here is why why can't have both though:
America is the beacon of hope, a shining city on the hill, with Lady Liberty the most tangible symbol of the freedom our way of life means to not just our own citizens but the entire world - that's why we welcome the poor, the tired, the yearning masses - ask yourself why Israel is not such a beacon (out of her own survival, I understand), and regardless of your rants about illegal immigration, that is simply not the country America is destined to become. Not while I'm alive.
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