For the Mexicans, it’s about the remittances
Here’s one of the keys to gaining control of our borders:
Illegal immigration, always a fact along the border, has become a key instrument of Mexican economic policy during the presidency of Vicente Fox.
The government makes no bones of the fact that it wants workers to enter the U.S., legally or not, so that they can send sorely needed remittances (expected to hit $20 billion this year, according to the Bank of Mexico) back home.
Why not prohibit, or at least tax oppressively, these remittances?
Comments
Damn right, illegal immigrants are here, we can’t ignore them, we need to find them and tax the hell out of them, and quit playing this “Close the border and the problem will go away” BS that the right keeps playing, let them, just make sure they pay like everyone else(more than everyone else). It won’t seem so much like paradise then, and even if it does, hell, let them work, if they’re making up more of the money.
Posted by: Joey | August 22, 2005 12:47 AM