Posted on 12/12/2018 6:15:45 PM PST by Kaslin
I bet the head of Homeland Security is sitting in his office right about now saying, “How did we not think of this first?”
The leaders of the migrant caravan currently parked on the other side of the Mexican border have come up with a brilliant solution to the standoff that’s been going on for quite some time now. They’re tired of waiting to have their asylum claims heard and are unhappy with all of their comrades being arrested when they try to cross the border illegally. So roughly 100 of them have contacted our government with a counteroffer. Just give each of them $50K and they’ll go back home. (Washington Times)
A group of about 100 Central American migrants currently camped out in Tijuana, Mexico, have reportedly sent a letter to the U.S. government demanding entry or $50,000 each to go back to their home countries.
The group, organized by Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa of Honduras, marched to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday morning to present a letter of demands, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
“It may seem like a lot of money to you,” Mr. Ulloa said of the proposed $50,000 payout. “But it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.”
The group has generously given us 72 hours to respond and make the deal. What happens if we don’t answer within the allotted time? They don’t know, but they’ll think of something.
Hey, let’s give credit where credit is due. It’s a bold plan. Of course, it’s also preposterous. First of all, what exactly has the United States “stolen” from Honduras? (This is assuming they had anything worth stealing.) And if we were going to pay these sorts of reparations for our supposed transgressions against that nation, we’d be giving the money to their government, not to a band of individuals threatening to illegally enter our country.
Just gaming this out to its illogical conclusion, we could spend five million dollars and have 100 of the migrants go back home. (I’m not sure, but I think $50K makes you a millionaire in Honduras. The average annual income there is roughly $580 U.S.) But when the entirety of the caravan gets here, that will be roughly 6,000 people. So I assume they will all turn around and go home for the bargain basement price of… $300M.
You know, if we had that sort of petty cash lying around we could probably build the wall from the beach near Tijuana well past all the authorized entry points in that region. And we wouldn’t have to give the migrants a dime.
In any event, this clearly constitutes a threat of some sort. Perhaps a blackmail attempt. If they all signed off on that letter I would suggest sending the list of names down to the border and putting them on the “No Amnesty For You” list. I’m assuming we have one of those, anyway.
OK,has Semmens become a ghost writer? What, you mean this isn’t satire? Damn it reads like it is.
Said almost completely tongue-in-cheek...
Trump should say, “But it would be 5000% cheaper to offer any valid Mexican citizen $1000 per scalp of a verifiable caravan member...”
Here's a better idea.
Each of them owes our United States of America $100,000 for responding to the intrusion.
Additionally, since each of them participated in an illegal invasion of our border, each of them is FOREVER disqualified from ever living in the U.S., becoming a citizen of the U.S., and collecting any (ANY) monetary benefits from the U.S.
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Toodles.
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Because appeasement always turns out so well... How long before they are back, with 47 relatives each? No thanks. Hey illegals, I’ve got your “reparations” right here... I would rather feed a stray dog than any one of you demanding reparations.
BUILD THE WALL!
“What’s a bullet worth?”
Depends on several factors such as caliber and weight.
A shakedown that democrats love.
(I see what you did there.)
Why pay them $50,000 a head when we can just pay the cartels $100 per head? Ask them that.
The only thing I can think of, is we may have stolen their pride by giving them foreign aid.
So, to be sure we don't hurt anyone's pride in the future, we should stop all foreign aid.
Clean up your own backyard, freeloaders.
Give them this offer.
A free plane ticket home and an embedded microchip so we can put them in jail if they cross the border in the future and are apprehended. As such we would know who in the hell they are. Otherwise, they are Mexico’s problem. Mexico is not kind to them if they become their problem.
we can just pay the cartels $100 per head
Mist the leader’s head when he’s in front of the crowd making his demands...then ask if anyone else had any demands....
I’m all for reparations. Where do i send my $0.02?
They want reparations?
Fine.
Paid out @ $0.32 per 9mm round to the back of the head.
Eff ‘em.
“Mist the leader’s head when he’s in front of the crowd making his demands...then ask if anyone else had any demands....”
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