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“Even better. That’ll get the corporate teat suckers howling to get their gravy spigots turned back on.”

Corporations are like spoiled children. If mommy won’t give them what they want now, they go to daddy. From the politician’s point of view, if they don’t give the corporation what it wants...now...the corporation will back a challenger in the next primary.

And, the politicians in foreign counties can’t cut the flow of illegals to the US for several reasons. It would make them very unpopular as the one good thing about being a citizen of Mexico or Guatemala is you can send family members to the US to get on welfare, obtain real paying jobs and they can send enough money home to support an entire extended family in fine style. That money is the backbone of many of those Latin American countries and any politician who does something to break that backbone will either be voted out or assassinated.

When the United States asks a foreign government to do something, it needs to evaluate why the foreign government is not doing that thing already. The answer in this case is the foreign government is keeping itself fed and stable by exporting people who then send back huge amounts of money. For them, it’s a win/win. US “aid” (sorry, I have to put “aid” in quotes as it isn’t really aid.) is just gravy. They can survive without gravy but not without the money sent back by their exported workers.

If you are looking for a lever, “aid” isn’t it. I don’t know what the answer is because the poorest American is better off than even the middle class in many of these sh*t-holes. There are several things that would slow down this disaster. One is taxing or not even allowing money to be sent out of the country. Many countries do not allow people to send their currency abroad without strict controls. Another thing would be to make giving welfare to illegals in the US a crime. States give out welfare because they have huge organizations dedicated to doing just that. Stopping welfare payments would mean laying off large numbers of welfare staff, all of whom vote. Another thing that would stop illegals from coming here is to start jailing people who employ them.

I don’t see any of these things happening unless something unexpected happens, like the necessity to closing the border because there are plagues in Mexico or some such. But, even when there was a possibility of bringing Ebola to the US, Obama allowed known infected people in. Also, people lied, knowing they were infected, so they could get free medical care in the US.