Where Do They Get the Money?

Coyotes charge illegal aliens $4,000 to $10,000 to get to the United States.  From the beginning I have wanted to know how the impoverished citizens of these anarchistic hell holes get this kind of money.  A day’s work in Guatemala will get you exactly $1.  You don’t save $10,000 by frugal living on those wages.  Even if the money comes from a relative in the U.S. working for minimum wage, how do you save that kind of money?  The source of this money is suspect and should be investigated.  It will shock no one if most of it comes from illegal sources, just as the men killed by the cartel were also frequently employed by the cartel. 

Make no mistake, I am convinced that the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children entering this country should be treated as refugees and kept here, not returned to the horrors they have risked so much to leave behind.  I think we have a wonderful opportunity here to take these youngsters, who have already shown bravery, strength and tenacity and turn them into both good Americans and dedicated Republicans.  

I know the conventional wisdom (and the fervent hope of all leftists) is that they will automatically vote Democratic.   This kind of thinking shows both the latent racism of the left [If you are brown-skinned you’ve got to be committed to the idea of constant victimhood and a Dem, right?] and a total misunderstanding of the character of the Latino community.  I live in the Rio Grande Valley and this is what I know: the Latino population has all of the characteristics that I associate with Republican values.  They embrace hard work, value education, love family, respect faith, and have intense pride in self-sufficiency.  These are the kind of people who can only strengthen the herd. 

But we do have to stem this tide of humanity.  We can not accept all comers to this country.  We do not have the resources to assimilate all of them.  Every illegal alien that we accept represents a corresponding legal immigrant for whom we do not have room and resources.  No one wants to look at the numbers and name the country we exclude in order to help the illegals we include.  Yet this must be done.  The ark only holds so many. 

To stem this tide by intervening at our border is starting some 1,300 miles too late.  The governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are all complicit in this problem.  These governments are, corrupt and thoroughly unconcerned about the children they are brutalizing.  These officials steal the money we send in aid, sell the material we give them for relief, and siphon off the loans we grant them for internal improvement.  But the money they lust for is also our weapon.

I originally said we should deduct $100,000 per child from the aid for each country and send that money on the schools of the communities in which these children come to live.  I have expanded that thinking.  All aid to these countries must halt immediately.  We are not helping people, we are enabling criminals.  Our aid will be returned, in the form of in-kind services only, when Central America seals its boarders.  If Oprah can build a school for girls in South Africa, we can build schools for girls in Guatemala, as well as hospitals, factories and roads, but these countries must first clean up their mess and make it safe for our workers.  Our mantra should be, “Local effort equals American aid.”

 Start boarder control at the source and keep the faith.