Wednesday, April 13, 2016

OUR OPINION: On Remittance Issue, Trump Is Right


Last week, presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed a plan to stop all remittances to Mexico from illegal immigrants.  That would mean that those residing in this country who are not legal citizens would be prohibited from wiring money to Mexico unless Mexico agrees to help fund a wall at America's southern border.

Trump is on the correct track.

A 2008 study found remittances from the U.S. to Latin America were costing the U.S. nearly $70 billion. That's right: $70 billion funneled out of the U.S. economy every year.  

Newer data show that Mexico collects around $25 billion in remittances annually from the U.S. -- a bigger contributor to the Mexican economy than either oil or tourism.  So it would make financial sense for Mexican leaders to pony up  a one-time expense of $10 billion for a wall versus forfeiting $25 billion each year in remittances from immigrants working in the U.S.

Over the past decade, Crete and other nearby communities with a sizable immigrant communities have been significantly harmed by money being sent out country.  

In generations past, that money was recycled many times over at area businesses.  It was spent locally to improve homes and neighborhoods, which meant higher home values, which led to more property tax collections for better schools, streets and infrastructure.

Not only are we now losing those dollars to money transfers going south of the border, U.S. taxpayers are left with higher bills to pay for:
  • Free K-12 education for the children of immigrants (including government funded breakfasts and lunches);
  • Law enforcement and prisons needed to address higher crime rates and gang activity;
  • Health care costs, including emergency room visits;
  • Expanded social welfare programs; and
  • Identity theft that comes with stolen social security numbers and other information needed to circumvent background check systems.
The mere mention of these facts will surely infuriate some readers.  This is proof that many Americans have been conditioned -- through schools or mass media -- to disrespect or disregard their own culture, traditions and history.  

We are thankful at least one candidate has the guts to "go there" and address the issues contributing to the deterioration of America's quality of life.  It beats turning a blind eye to our problems while continuing to promise rainbows, unicorns and utopia by stealing more from American taxpayers.

Eventually, reality will force lawmakers to take action, whether prompted by another major terrorist attack or a revolt at the ballot box.  While we wait for the politicians to figure it out, let's keep pressuring those who are being paid with tax dollars to protect us.

If you know of illegal aliens residing in the United States, call the detention and removal offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The number is 952-853-2550 and press “0.”

16 comments:

  1. HAIL TO THE NEW CHIEF!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. ........................Who's gonna pay for the wall........................

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    1. MEXICO! and trump gets my vote too

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  3. I'm not paying for that *$%^@!* wall!

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  4. its simple- we have had to work, and our taxes have given them a free ride for years, and taxpayers have had no choice about it. with this next election, we have a choice. dont waste it.Lets face it. this country can not afford them here anymore. Most of us are struggeling to live at or below poverty level. they take atvantage of us, and then laugh at us behind our backs, sick of them!

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  5. I really do not understand the Trump leg humpers out there. The man is no conservative. He contradicts himself, often in the same speeches. He has no clue what the Constitution even is. And he cannot comprehend that we are a Federal Republic and that each state party is sovereign and makes its own rules. The guy acts like a drunk bully in a bar. He is also the ultimate insider, because he has used his dollars to manipulate politicians, mostly liberals, for decades. In my opinion, he needs a good whoopin!

    Now Cruz, he is a Constitutionalist and has been defending the Constitution and conservative principles for years. He is an outsider who ran as a Tea Party insurrectionist in the Republican Senatorial Primary. The RNC spent ten dollars to Cruz's one to get the establishment candidate the nomination, and Cruz won by a landslide.

    Wake up America, Wake up Nebraska, our primary is just a few weeks away.

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  6. I am 53 years old. The rapid decline I've seen plague America in my lifetime is truly astonishing. I am voting for Trump because I feel there are no alternatives. I will not vote for a 75 year old communist parading as a socialist; I will not vote for a villain who has been helping run the show for the past 24 years; I won't vote for a kook who reminds me of a failed 1980s televangelist who steals and lies when people aren't paying attention; I certainly won't vote for the person the longtime politicians tell me to.

    The more the media and DC crowd tell me Trump is "dangerous" or "unprepared" or "too controversial" with women, minorities, cats, dogs, etc., the more I'm likely to vote for him. American first.

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  7. Trump lies all the time. He makes stuff up on the fly and he has lied about all the other candidates. Why do people believe this buffoon? I am 60 and have been waiting for a Ted Cruz for thirty years. I feel like I woke up in a Twighlight Zone episode with a socialist, a felon and circus performer actually having a shot at POTUS! And the guy who is the most qualified people make up stuff about and marginalize him. Good grief, this country gets exactly what it deserves. It is not the economy.......as Bill Clinton said......

    IT's THE CONSTITUTION STUPID!

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  8. The press has been behind Trump since the beginning. All the guy has to do is break wind and he gets thirty minutes of coverage. And while talking about breaking wind proclaims that flatulence will not longer smell and his followers just eat it up.............

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    1. Cruz and Clinton and Sanders supporters are nasty, nasty people. I'm voting trump, too.

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  9. Trump supported Hillary big time and he also supported Bill. HE can't put two sentences together that make sense. I don't get it........why would anyone support such an equine posterior???

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  10. Thanks Senator Sasse! By telling me you'll work to muck up the election process stop Trump, you just gave him two extra votes. My wife and I were undecided but Sasse's childish and frankly weird, cult-like behavior sealed the deal for us.

    #DUMBASSSASSE

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    1. I have socks older than Sasse and smarter too.

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  11. Sasse is a great American! Ben Sasse for VP with Ted Cruz!!!!

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    1. I've been a conservative Republican my entire life. My first vote was for Goldwater. So don't you dare attack me for not being conservative because I am voting for Donald J. Trump. I'm not signing my name to this because if I did, the Cruzbots would send me voter violations, Clinton supporters would play that cackling witch from loudspeakers, and the Sanders-nistas would shoot me, take my possessions and then register for free college.

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  12. MAKE AMERICA AMERICA AGAIN

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