U.S. remittances to Central America's big three hit record $17 billion in 2018
As the caravans keep rolling in, and Congress does its darndest to prevent the construction of a border wall, journalists who follow the money can find some striking news.
The Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard has a good one on U.S. remittances to the three Central American countries whose nationals are leading the surge across our unguarded southern border.
He writes:
Immigrants from the three Central American nation’s sourcing many illegal border crossers sent a record amount of money home last year, bringing the total this decade to $120 billion.Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador all said that natives in the United States sent over $17 billion home last year alone.
Bedard's bar chart shows just how that number has risen:
Image credit: By permission from the Washington Examiner
Obviously, that's the effect of a border surge that began to sharply accelerate beginning in 2014. I wrote about that for Investor's Business Daily back in 2014, describing just the projections for a rise from Central America, and that's what we see now from this chart above.
What's more, the Wikipedia entry on the 2014 surge includes the standard argument of the left that border apprehensions were down in the years that followed to suggest that the numbers of illegal arrivals was also falling. Here is its chart. Bedard's piece suggests otherwise.
The money figures shown above in the chart and in the Bedard report signal that the border flow was actually rising, apprehensions or not. So, the left's current "narrative" about a declining apprehension rate falls apart with Bedard's report. Apprehensions may have been down, but against this surging remittance number, the most likely explanation now is that the Obama administration just quit apprehending -- to get the numbers down. If apprehensions were down as the result of fewer people migrating here illegally, we wouldn't see the steepening arc of money in Bedard's chart.
Unless we're getting a lot of doctors and lawyers immigrating illegally from Central America now, with doctor and lawyer salaries the reason for the higher remittances. Color me skeptical on that one.
Actually that isn't quite speculation. This screen grab of a Google chart on the economies shows someone no one in the press has reported much given their narrative of poverty and oppression driving the surge:
That the Central American economies have actually been booming:
Life is good for doctors and lawyers and other people with decent education in places such as El Salvador. Bedard points out that these countries took in more than $17 billion in remittances in the last year alone (and almost $16 billion in 2017), while the chart shows that their economies together in 2017 total more than $123 billion. He says remittances amount to about 20% of their economies (and the data supplying his rough estimate is probably different from mine). I see around 14%, putting the 2017 remittance figure over the 2017 GDP. It's the same ballpark.
Which means a heckuva lot of the economic growth in these places isn't from remittances, it's from their booming economies, which are likely linked to their free trade pacts with the U.S., as well as, in El Salvador's case, its official (and the other two's unofficial) use of the U.S. dollar in trade transactions.
The press is reporting that these places are economic disaster areas and the impoverished border surgers' choice to emigrate to the U.S. illegally can only because they are escaping poverty. What baloney. The data show that border surgers are actually fleeing booming economies, not Venezuelan-style hellhole, and are beefing their home countries' economies up further with their surging remittances, signaling more to come. Big dollar surges into a country can very well propel lots of money for investment and consumption, as well as prop up the tax base of these countries, bolstering these governments. That would explain why so many of the previous caravan border surgers had such new-looking clothes and lifestyles of the rich and famous Instagrams, as well as some spectacular ingratitude. Hellholes these place are not - they've got a lot of money out there to pay for their poor, from both remittances and their booming economies at home - and they don't do it. Worse still, that $17 billion they took in last year, tax free, and the $120 billion they took over the decade, tax free, subtracts that much money from U.S. GNP. What a gift these places have been getting. Forget not that they are also the largest recipients of U.S. aid which I blogged about here.
With Bedard's report of the remittance surge, the case for building a wall - and taxing remittances - grows. President Trump is right to do something about this scam, the left stands exposed for its phony narratives once again.
ILLEGALS
& WELFARE
….YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/frosty-wooldridge-let-us-open-us.html
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
"Mexican
president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to
the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all
the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that
immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free
medical in the United States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that
Obrador has previously proposed ranting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS.
“America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the
Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers
a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
AMNESTY: THE HOAX TO KEEP WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED!
"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12
to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative
impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and
the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar
jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER
AMERICA: THE WORLD’S WELFARE OFFICE
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness,
sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population
in the country and its “worst state in the U.S. to do business” ranking for more than a decade,
California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is
devolving into a third-world country. JANET LEVY
"This is how they will destroy America from
within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are
wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed
to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have
nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans;
like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
"Most Californians, who have seen
their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact
that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may
be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has
become." FAIR President Dan Stein
70%
OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers
for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien
families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
So when cities across the country declare
that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang
members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically
the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime
wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for
education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor
babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on
primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and
they cannot speak a word of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to
illegal aliens each year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on
food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school
lunches for illegal aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to
incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates
are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION
in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is
getting involved in our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed
American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
THE SLOW DEATH OF CALIFORNIA, A WELFARE STATE AND
COLONY OF MEXICO
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness,
sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population in
the country and its “worst state in the U.S. to do business” ranking for more than a decade, California and
its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is devolving into a
third-world country. JANET LEVY
AMERICA: THE
WORLD’S WELFARE OFFICE
With
crime soaring, rampant homelessness, sanctuary state status attracting the
highest illegal immigrant population in the country and its “worst state
in the U.S. to do business” ranking for more than a decade,
California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is
devolving into a third-world country. JANET LEVY
"This is how they will
destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who
orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in
Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of
migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must
endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members,
drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention
of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt
for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
"Most
Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services
deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on
their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much
of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein
WE SAT AND WATCHED WHILE THEY DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY!
We
are now in the process of destabilizing our own country. FROSTY WOOLDRIGE
Welfare for Refugees Cost Americans $123 Billion in 10 Years
….YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/frosty-wooldridge-let-us-open-us.html
THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
The
Democrat Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for
invading illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to
destroy the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER
OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Demonstrably
and irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective
is to thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of
open borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world
peasants who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza
welfare state. FRONTPAGE MAG
AMERICA, THE ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE
STATE
“Through love of having children we're going to take
over." Augustin Cebada, Information
Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at
U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
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“The children of illegal aliens are commonly known as “anchor babies,”
as they anchor their illegal alien and noncitizen parents in the U.S. There
are at least 4.5 million anchor babies in the country, a population that exceeds the total number of annual American births.” JOHN BINDER
MARK LEVIN:
‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country
Down’
“Through love of having
children we're going to take over."
Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant
para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence
Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
This annual income for an impoverished American family
is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on
each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong of the University
of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25 percent of
DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That totals
about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled illegal
aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified illegal
aliens. JOHN BINDER
“As Breitbart News recently
reported, there are more anchor baby births in the Los Angeles, California
metro area than the total U.S. births in 14 states and the District of
Colombia. Every year, American taxpayers are billed about $2.4 billion to pay for the
births of illegal aliens.” JOHN BINDER
THE INVASION:
“The
radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States whether to
form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire
reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's
"lost" territories in the American Southwest.” Maria Hsia
Chang Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
"Mexican
president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to
the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all
the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that
immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free
medical in the United States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that
Obrador has previously proposed ranting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS.
“America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the
Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
All that “cheap” labor is staggeringly
expensive!
"Most
Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services
deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on
their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of
a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein.
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Californians bear an enormous fiscal
burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million
residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services
for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of
about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.
THE
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CHIPS IN MORE THAN ONE BILLION PER YEAR FOR MEX ANCHOR
BABY BREEDING OF FUTURE DEMS!
JUDICIAL WATCH:
America builds the La Raza “The Race” Mexican
welfare state
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers
a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
AMNESTY: THE HOAX TO KEEP WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED!
"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12
to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative
impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and
the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar
jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER
"Additionally,
under current legal immigration laws, if given amnesty, the illegal alien
population would be allowed to bring an unlimited number of their foreign
relatives to the U.S. This population could boost already high legal
immigration levels to an unprecedented high. An amnesty for illegal aliens
would also likely triple the number of border-crossings at the U.S.-Mexico
border." JOHN BINDER
"At
the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also through Canada)
the United States will be completely over run with illegal aliens by the year
2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US law to become
citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens
and their offspring will be the dominant population in the United States”…. Tom
Barrett
HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
AMNESTY WILL ADD ANOTHER 100 MILLION IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS
HEAR THAT SUCKING SOUND?
IT’S MEXICO SUCKING THE BLOOD OF
AMERICA…. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS FOR WELFARE, “FREE” HEALTHCARE, HEROIN SALES,
CRIME COST AND THEN THEY SEND TENS OF BILLIONS BACK TO NARCOMEX
“In the U.S. the remittances that come of illegal
immigration drive down U.S. wages, particularly of those on the lowest-skilled
parts of the ladder, and as money flows out from local communities, leaves them
underinvested and run-down. Nobody can live two places at once. Illegal
immigrants live here but their money lives in Mexico. And it's often untaxed.”
MONICA SHOWALTER
Who ultimately really
pays for all the true cost of all that "cheap" labor?
THE DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class
base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were
actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL
GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
LA RAZA DOUBLED U.S. POPULATION AND VOTED TO SURRENDER
AMERICAN BORDERS FOR EASY PLUNDERING BY NARCOMEX.
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“Through love of
having children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada,
Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan
shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles,
7/4/96
“The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the
Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger
illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty,
the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals,
according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May
paying taxes to the government ....with the rest of the calendar year is money
for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien
with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage,
with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he
files an Income Tax Return, with his fake Social Security number, he gets an
"earned income credit" of up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing
and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no
deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts
and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and
books.
He qualifies for relief from high
energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind
or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can
qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car
insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language
signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the
equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have
$5.00 or $6.00/hour left after Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for
increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
Cheap
labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
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