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Comment by Willem Post on June 18, 2025 at 10:53am

• Illegal Alien Economy: How Foreign Nations Exploit US Borders for Profit

  By Brandon Smith

  Tensions over mass illegal immigration in the US are finally coming to a boil after 4 years of open borders under the Biden Administration and six months of obstruction by Democrat politicians and judges interfering with deportations of illegals, who often are misfits and criminals.

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  The progressive establishment position on illegals is clear: Make it as easy as possible for anyone to enter the country and make it as difficult as possible to kick them out.

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  I want to examine how we got here in the first place and why many foreign governments are so obnoxious when it comes to US immigration policies.

  Why is the rest of the world in our business?

  Why do they care, if we have tighter controls on borders and stricter vetting for immigration?

  Why don’t foreign governments also complain about Chinese immigration standards, or Saudi Arabia’s standards, or even Australia’s standards?

  Why does everyone else think they have a say in how America handles immigration?

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  The primary reason for foreign meddling is economic, specifically regarding Central America and South America.

  The US is widely considered a kind of global smorgasbord, or a wounded gazelle – The entire jungle shows up to take a bite.

  We’re the cash cow of the planet ready to be milked.

  The exposure of organizations like USAID proved beyond a doubt that Americans pay for the ENTIRE WORLD.

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  The US is an Economic and Social Relief Valve of South America

  Mexico has enjoyed a very low unemployment rate for several years, not just because untold numbers of US manufacturing jobs have been outsourced to the south, but because Mexico has the option of encouraging its

  poverty-stricken, never-do-well, low-skill, low-education citizens to get US jobs by sneaking into the US, with help of well-compensated, well-connected human traffickers.

  This serves a couple of purposes –

  1) It allows Mexico to maintain low unemployment rates

  2) It saves Mexico loads of cash when it comes to social welfare programs (let Gringo taxpayers foot the welfare bill).

  3) It allows Mexico to relocate its discontented, criminal rabble over the border (let Gringo taxpayers deal with those people).

  The same goes for most of Central and South America.

  The benefits are just too numerous to ignore.

  The more open the US border is, the more every third world country near us has to gain.

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  Immigration Extortion

  The Biden Administration made a concerted effort to spin the immigration crisis as a problem of financial instability and humanitarian response.

  Kamala Harris, the supposed “border czar”, spent years avoiding a visit to the southern border to witness the migrant surge first hand. Instead, she claimed that her energies were better spent on trips to other countries where she could “solve the problem at the source”.

  The Biden Administration would not close the border, but they would pay off foreign governments with billions of dollars in subsidies that would theoretically trickle down to third world populations and keep them at home.

  These payoffs were also designed to make South American and Central American politicians stop encouraging their people to enter the US illegally.

  Democrats didn’t really want the migrant caravans to stop, but this was a way for them to pretend as if they were taking action.

  Meanwhile, foreign leaders were licking their chops; the more migrant trash they rounded up, the more subsidies they could extort from the Biden Administration.

  The incentives for them to continue sending migrant trains north were overwhelming.

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  The Golden River of Remittances

  Last week Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seemingly threatened the US over a proposed tax on remittances.

  Remittances are any monies earned (or stolen) within the US by illegals and transferred to their home countries.

  For example, in Florida, illegals in construction are paid around 30% less than American workers.

  Most of those illegals would end up at the local Winn-Dixie supermarket every payday to cash their checks and wire money to Mexico through Western Union.

  There would be a long line of them around the front of the store, all of them sending money outside the US.

  Now imagine this is happening in every town in the US with illegals, and you’ll start to understand the sheer scale of remittances.

  A tax on remittances that is currently under review is only around 3%, but some US Congress Members want 15% or more. In response Sheinbaum has turned hostile, arguing that Mexicans would “mobilize” in reaction to any “fees”.

  “If necessary, we’ll mobilize. We don’t want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen. From the US to Mexico…”

  She did not specify what she meant by “mobilize”, but this is a threat is to foment unrest among illegals already in US. .

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  Remittances are big Business

  Mexico received about $65 billion in remittances from the US in 2024.

  Mexico’s entire social welfare budget is around $30 billion/y

  Mexico’s tourism industry generates around $32 billion/y

  In 2024, Mexico had a record-breaking trade surplus with the United States, reaching $171.8 billion, a 12.7% increase compared to the previous year. This signifies a continued trend of Mexico exporting more goods to the US than it imports

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  A dollar buys a lot more in Mexico than it does in the US.

  The US median price of a three-bedroom house is $320,000.

  The Mexican median price of a three-bedroom house is $100,000

  This is another reason why illegals come to the US; even when working for 30% less wages they still earn triple the buying power in their own country by wiring dollars back home.

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  Sheinbaum understands full well that her country is highly dependent on the underground cash flows from the US through illegal workers.

  The same goes for numerous Central and South American countries.

  However, this dynamic is changing and the parasitic nations don’t like it.

  They’ve become so addicted to easy cash from the US, they don’t know how to function any other way.

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  The economics of illegal immigration is ugly

  The mere presence of tens of millions of illegals creates a massive demand in goods, services and housing/schools/medical facilities which drives up prices.

  Add to this the billions of dollars spent every year on subsides for illegals collecting welfare (about 60% of all illegals collect from one or more welfare programs upon entering the US), and you have an undeniable inflationary burden.

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on June 18, 2025 at 7:59am

Maine to Become Sanctuary State for Illegal Alien Criminals Under Bill Heading to Janet Mills’ Desk
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on June 17, 2025 at 4:20pm

Republican Senator Votes to Keep Transgender Policies in Schools

Bennett said that his decision was influenced by his daughter telling him that “these bills make me sad.” He said that his daughter’s emotional response made him feel like he could acknowledge his own feelings, he said.

“Her feelings gave me permission to be honest about mine too. I too feel sadness that these bills are before us, sadness that in a moment when we could be lifting up young people, we are entertaining proposals that single some of them out setting them apart as other,” said Bennett.

Weblink for full article:

https://www.themainewire.com/2025/06/republican-senator-votes-to-ke...