Posted on 05/05/2018 5:36:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Among the alleged asylum-seekers parked on the U.S. border is a contingent of Hondurans, allegedly fleeing persecution, poverty, crime, and oppression. If that is the case, then why is the Honduran government helping them, driving them northward under orders given to the Honduran ambassador, who is helping and escorting them?
Leaders of a caravan of Central American migrants traveling toward the United States through Mexico have repeatedly accused the Honduran government of corruption and with failing to address the poverty, crime and economic conditions forcing families to flee by the thousands.
So it shocked some observers when the Honduran ambassador joined the migrants protesting outside the Honduran embassy in Mexico City on Wednesday, and then accepted their invitation to walk 9 miles to a migrant shelter.
"I have been ordered by my government to support the Honduran migrants traveling with the caravan. There are about 200 Hondurans who we will help out with paperwork and whatever is necessary," Alden Rivera Montes, the Honduran ambassador to Mexico, told El Universal.
Why is the country whose oppression they are allegedly fleeing helping them leave? The answer is remittances, the money sent back home by so-called "migrants." Asylum is in large part a colossal scam designed to provide Latin American countries with both a safety valve and a cash cow of foreign exchange. In 2017, remittances sent back to Honduras totaled $4.33 billion and make up a significant part of the Honduran economy:
Within the span of a few short decades, migrants have become an essential engine of economic support for Honduras. Remittances comprised 17 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011, according to World Bank estimates, the second largest share of any country in Latin America or the Caribbean.
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There are many ways to fund the wall. The desire to build it must be there first.
Thought these were "undocumented immigrants"?
Guess they need a new name for them now.
Yes!
Mr. and Mrs. America will gladly send donations, some business too.
And, there is available an amazing number of us who will volunteer our labor.
The "make mexico pay for it" notion is unnecessary. mexico will pay with the reduced income from drug crime and reduced income money wired south (and with tax and benefits lost from emergency room services and govt provided welfare and school costs.)
BTW!
(Build the Wall!).
Because maybe it really is a foreign invasion!
increasing taxation is not conservative
Those remittances are already taxed 5%. Trump did that. I wish it had been 50%. That would have slowed them down damn quick.
Vooch, in many instances it’s illegals sending money back home.
Please explain why they can’t be taxed, according to Conservative dogma.
Are you sure that’s a tax, or is it a Western Union fee?
growing the size of gov‘t is why
if you want to impose a tax on sending money overseas, then do so; but then reduce some other tax in equal measure.
This method of funding the wall has been proposed long ago. I don’t understand why this has not been followed with action? I say do it!
Vooch, for crying out loud, that’s way off point.
Utilizing that money to pay for the wall, to prevent more illegals IS NOT growing government.
Allowing to leave the border open IS.
Start the tax, build the wall, end the tax.
As for helping to pay down the impact of illegals already here, I might extend it for that purpose, only to pay for removing them.
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