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We get this story every 4 years or anytime immigration heats up. It is over, nothing to worry. More are going back. Which begs the question why would self deportation not work? Looks like that is what is happening.
Not only that, what about the fact that much of the land along the Mexican border is privately owned property (who's owners will undoubtedly demand compensation), Indian reservations (some of whom won't even allow Border Patrol agents on tribal land unless the tribal police request their presence - they certainly wont allow a wall), or FWS nature reserves/NPS parks (environmental concerns).
This article sums up all of those issues very well:
"The U.S.–Mexico border was once a co-dependent region with communities on both sides profiting from a daily exchange of goods and services, a hybrid culture with its own food, music, and commerce, where members of the same family lived on both sides, and businesses relied on an international clientele.
Nogales, Arizona, for example, depended on Mexican consumers for 70 percent of its sales-tax revenue.
Not only has the fence changed all that, it has cut people off from their own property. In South Texas, where the winding Rio Grande traces the border with Mexico, the fence had to be built on higher, dryer ground. Erected inside U.S. territory, it has separated some American farmers from their fields. John McClung, president of the Texas Produce Association, estimates that 35,000 to 50,000 acres planted with onions, cabbage, leafy green vegetables, and citrus are being trapped between the fence and the river."
I know someone from Nogales, Arizona, and she talks about Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora as the same town. She's not trying to make a political point or anything. It's just the same place to her, that happens to be split in half by a fence now.
The items you posted would not be leverage to force Mexico to spend one penny on a wall. What they would do is destroy our diplomatic and trading ties with Mexico which would be as much to our detriment as theirs.
These fees won't even be noticed. This is something that the government is very good at. Taxing people without them knowing about it. It's like the gasoline tax. Nobody knows that a third of the cost of the gas goes to taxes.
I know someone from Nogales, Arizona, and she talks about Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora as the same town. She's not trying to make a political point or anything. It's just the same place to her, that happens to be split in half by a fence now.
I fully sympathize with her. I hate the landscape be broken up by ugly man made structures but nothing else has worked.
This is just foolishness, fueled by the further foolishness that Mexico is taking advantage of us.
Google "maquiladora" if you're unclear on the concept. A steady stream of tractor trailers from the U.S. crosses the border each day with parts to be assembled in Mexican factories by workers who get paid as little as 55 cents an hour. Who is taking advantage of whom? If we try to get tough, they'll just turn our trucks around at the border and U.S. firms will suffer greatly.
And taxing remittance payments? Good luck with that one. The Mexicans I know will figure out a way to get their $500 across the border each month. Please. This is tough talk from people who live far removed from the fray, in my opinion.
I fully sympathize with her. I hate the landscape be broken up by ugly man made structures but nothing else has worked.
Unfortunately, a lot of U.S. people are afraid to cross and shop because of the rumors of drug killings and so on, which are greatly exaggerated in my opinion, at least in that part of Mexico. Phoenix is probably more dangerous. I don't go to Nogales often, but the last time I went people were like, "Will you please tell people that it's safe to shop here?" As if I had any real influence on what anybody else does. My wife and I picked up a few knick-knacks, ate some tasty treats and went home. It's a nice place, at least by day, and staying out of the bars and not looking for trouble.
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