Documentary filmmaker Dennis Michael Lynch warns "[i]t's about to get worse. . . Entire villages are emptying out and coming from Central America through Mexico to the United States. They'll be hitting in the next couple weeks. What you are seeing right now is the tip of the iceberg."
In other words, Mexico and those Central American countries are exporting their poverty to the US.
ReplyDeleteAt a bare minimum, we should end birth-right citizenship, be taxing those remittance payments at the marginal federal tax rate plus Social Security and Medicare taxes at the rate for self-employed individuals, and be reducing any foreign aid to those countries by the amount those illegals are costing our local, state, and federal governments.
Breitbart News reports that between 10 and 20% of the GDPs of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador come from remittances. (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/07/Documents-Migrants-Sending-Home-Billions-in-Remittances-Boosting-Central-American-Economies)
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