Posted on 12/18/2004 10:02:57 AM PST by yonif
Mexican immigrants working in the United States are sending money south of the border to help fix roads or sidewalks, buy ambulances, set up scholarships, construct senior centers, restore downtown plazas or pay for various other community projects.
For every charitable dollar sent to Mexico by immigrants who are members of civic groups and clubs in the United States, the Mexican government is matching the donation with three dollars.
This is all done through Mexico's Three for One Initiative Program, which is under the Secretaria de Desarrollo Social, a Mexican federal agency.
Friday, Martha Esquivel, a representative with the Secretaria de Desarrollo in Los Angeles, was at the Mexican Consulate in Oxnard to explain how the Three for One program works and invite Mexican clubs and organizations to participate in the program. Later, Esquivel met with 14 business owners, social workers, banking representatives, a farm worker union representative and others to explain the Three for One process and also discuss other issues.
Esquivel and Fernando Gamboa Rosas, the Mexican consul in Oxnard, said Mexicans who go to the United States to work feel compelled to send money back to the communities to help the poor and others. Esquivel said the immigrants' "sentiment, spirit and hearts" are in Mexico even if they are hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Three for One charitable contributions can be done only through clubs and civic groups formed by Mexican immigrants living in the United States.
A club, for example, will have members who resided in a certain Mexican state, such as Zacatecas or Jalisco. The clubs raise money and work with Desarrollo Social to build projects or set up social or education programs for the Mexican states where they resided.
So far, she said, 23 of the 31 Mexican states are participating in the Three for One program. More than 500 clubs and organizations throughout the United States are participating.
In the past two years, the clubs have raised $50,000, which has been matched with $150,000 from the Mexican government. This year, Esquivel said, there are 2,400 Three for One projects in the works throughout Mexico. An equal number of projects is planned for next year, she said.
Esquivel said the money also can be used to set up businesses like tortilla factories or mechanic shops as long as they are cooperatives that'll benefit the community.
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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I saw this disgusting piece of rubbish. If Mexico would expend these sums of money on it's own, far less if it problems would be headed north.
I dispise the government (organized crime family) of Mexico.
There's really no need to worry about their financial health!
Some gains have been made by our relentless lobbying and activism but we're still facing an uphill battle against the corrupted Senate and the interim House toadies willing to go down in flames for their masters (those perks must be really good to trash one's total credibility over). We can do it! Every day I find that non-political acquaintances have been puting it together on their own but lacked confidence in their opinion for fear that they'd be hooted down for intolerance. I remind them that it's not intolerant to demand our representatives look after our interests before foreign nationals and that their parents and grandparents hard-won gains that got them where they are now are being nullified for the sake of people who have no right to be here at all.
If we can't reignite a resurgence of patriotic pride and muster the citizens' will to act this great nation will be Balkanized and raped by our homegrown elitist traitors. Curse this dying of Liberty's light and fight!
Today I was in the Dell factory cafeteria listening to the self-segregated Somalian tables chirping their dialects in one ear and the self-segregated Latino sections sorting Spanish from Porteguese in the other. In that moment I recalled many times German nationals came up to tables where I and other GIs were speaking English and chided us for not trying to converse in their country's language. I wondered how fast I would be fired/subpoenaed/painted a Klansman if I did such to our secularist residents doing their most to avoid assimilating.
The Somalian Muslims are recipients of dual-standards at the expense of everyone else because the company receives proportionate tax-breaks for the amount of refugees they can effectively employee. It matters not that the men have no sense of timeliness or understanding of what's going on around them. It doesn't matter that their women (all in traditional dress) routinely screw up the simplest demands and require micro-management our "politically correct" managers have been trained to avoid - as American women would find such management these ladies require to be overbearing and sexist. Most of these women are totally illiterate. Thus we have primitives loose in commercial technology endeavors sabotaging the mission, creating corrective work where it shouldn't be required and constantly disrupting progress for the sake of the Federal government's stipend for babysitting them.
Meanwhile they're taking up slots deserving citizens need and rightfully deserve while making those who are there job's harder. The icing on the cake is seeing them allowed special break time for their mandatory prayers to Satan Allah in the display room designed to exhibit the benefits of 21st Century technology.
When I read a report that Jeb Bush had been good friends with Raul Salinas, that did it for me. It seems they would vacation at each other's ranches on alternate years.
I don't give a rat's behind what's up with Jeb and George, I just want our borders brought under control and the invasion stopped.
This refugee bull s--t, is killing us. We can't take the whole damned world in here, because they claim trouble at home.
I don't know if you know this, but the claim of refugee status trumps everything else. In one specific instance a middle eastern man was known to have plotted to blow up the USA School in Jordan. He was somehow caught and prevented from carrying out his act.
When he tried to enter the nation, our people recognized and identified him. Even so, he was allowed to enter the United States by claiming he would be persecuted if he returned to his nation of origion.
He walks our streets today waiting for a hearing.
Look, this is suicidal behavior. It must be stopped. No sane person could disagree.
This is killing our schools, our infrastructure, our tax base, our healthcare, our national security and our competitive business practices.
While not everyone will agree, I have to firmly believe that allowing this to continue is tantamount to treason.
That's one reason you really have to wonder about some of the "connections" between our political leaders and the corrupt leaders of Mexico. The Salinas de Gortari family is unbelievably bad. Raul killed his own brother-in-law -- and Enrique just got snuffed in some drug deal gone bad --- and Carlos himself has a very interesting but evil past.
Carlos even left the nation immediately upon leaving office. He may have returned to the country, but if I remember correctly, he is hated there and still lives in exile.
We should be so lucky with Slick Willie and the harlot.
He went into exile immediately --- but I believe he returned and is living in Mexico --- but is still hated by the people. Interesting he was the big pusher of NAFTA which has destroyed the life and livelihood of so many Mexicans.
The potential for fraud is high. It's difficult to oversee all these projects and how the money is spent, which is one reason why big government doesn't work to begin with. FReegards....
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