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And the federal government helps them send money back to Mexico and out of the US economy and for once it's not Obama's fault. Bush did it with some cooperation from the banks in the US and Mexico and the Mexican government that is only to glad to have our dollars help their economy. And to make matters worse, he used our tax dollars to have the Federal Reserve market the program. The program is called Directo a Mexico.
This is from 2006:
"Marketed as “the best way to send money home,” offering “more pesos for every dollar,” the Federal Reserve’s remittance program charges U.S. financial institutions $0.67 per item to transfer money from the United States to Mexican banks, ensuring a “highly competitive rate.” The Federal Reserve also provides participating U.S. financial institutions with Spanish language promotional materials to “help get your message out.” The program was reportedly launched in response to a directive from President Bush following the 2001 U.S. – Mexico Partnership for Prosperity created by President Bush and then Mexican President Fox. It makes no distinction between “legal” and “illegal” aliens."
You'll be interested to know that Judicial Watch, who has been on Obama's case about his scandals espeicially with regard to the IRS, was on Bush's case about this program.
1. They sometimes borrow money from loan sharks that are affiliated with the drug cartels. If they get caught and sent back, the loan sharks know it. Or family scrapes together the money with the expectation that the illegal finds work in the US and then pays the coyotes to bring in the rest of the family. Sometimes, illegals get put in so-called stash houses in cities near the border (Phoenix has a big problem with this) and are kept there until the relatives come up with the money for the coyotes.
2. The reason that they look good after sneaking in here is that they throw out their dirty clothes, leaving them along with their other trash on fragile desert eco-systems. Then they change into a clean outfit. They do this so as to not draw attention to themselves when they find civilization.
I suppose the coyotes and cartels also sell clothes in the desert?
They borrow it from relatives in Mexico or they have legal/illegal relatives in the US working their asses off so they can send money back to Mexico. Its estimated that $20 billion/year (remittances) makes it's way back to Mexico via bank transfers or Western Union.
The illegals are draining our money supply as it no longer is circulating in our economy when it is sent back to Mexico. We are now supporting the Mexican economy too.
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