Two caravans of Central American migrants made separate
marches on the United States Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico recently, demanding
that President Trump promptly let them into the U.S… or pay
them each $50,000 to go back home. Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa, one of
the group’s organizers, was asked how the $50,000 figure was chosen. He
responded that they decided on that figure as a group, adding, “It may seem
like a lot of money to you, but it is a small sum compared to everything the
United States has stolen from Honduras.” Say what?!
The
group wrote a letter addressed to President Trump, Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, San Ysidro Port Director Sidney Aki, and
Commissioner of the Office of Customs and Border protection Kevin McAleenan,
criticizing American intervention in Central America and giving the U.S. 72
hours to respond. Yet, incredibly, the letter also asked the United States to remove Honduran President Orlando
Hernandez from office.
“Dear
United States: let us in immediately-- or give us $50,000 each and we’ll call it good and go home. Also, stop meddling in
our affairs! Oh, but please take out our president ASAP! Sincerely, Migrant
Caravan Members.”
The
U.S., rather than “stealing from” Honduras, gives
the nation millions of dollars a year in aid, $181 million in 2017 alone to be
precise. (President Trump has threatened to cut off this aid if Honduras, and
other Central American countries, don’t stop the migrant groups before they
reach the U.S. border). Ulloa says the 50 grand or so per person would allow
each of the migrants to return home and start a small business.
Perhaps
a nascent narcotics ring or a quaint little flower shop, massage parlor or pizza
emporium.
These
may be third world folks, but this is a first-rate scam! I want to go country to country demanding each in turn grant me
citizenship or fork over the equivalent of $50,000 U.S.! Imagine if this same
demand was repeated at a consulate of every Western nation. I’d be a true
“citizen of the world” and/or fabulously wealthy.
I think
I might also try this at the local level and engage in a little microeconomics,
as it were. I’m going to go house to house in the neighborhood, knock on each
door and demand that each household let me stay with them… or give me $1,000.
Then I’ll tell them to stop playing
their music so loud and beg them to depose my wife.
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