That is certainly the case, and as you may have noticed, there is a strong current of feeling in the US at present that we ought to be buying American-made products. This phenomenon occurs all the time, of course, especially when the economy is down.
Nobody is telling anyone they can’t spend their money however they like. You asked why sending money home would be a negative. I’m telling you. Chill the fuck out.
Depends what they’re spending it on, obviously.
Why the hostility?
People are proposing a change to your Constitution to remove the jus solis birthright of citizenship and one of the arguments is because they might send money out of the country.
So your rich can send money overseas and it depends on what it is for if it is to be viewed as negative. Another US citizen sends money out of the country to help relatives and that is a negative. And one more reason to deny citizenship based on being born within your borders. Nope. Their is no bigotry involved in that.
I happen to be an immigrant myself, and not a citizen, at that, so I have a somewhat different perspective on the issue.
They only bleed red! Not red, white and blue like your noble patriotic opponent. What kind of America would you have if fewer people bled red, white, and blue?
When I buy a widget that’s made in Outer Plutonia, then I don’t just send the money to OP. I get a widget, which I consider to be of equal or greater value than the amount of money that I spent on it. The scales balance. Both OP and the US have gained something of approximately equal value.
When my neighbor, who is an immigrant (legal or illegal, in this case it doesn’t matter) sends a remittance to her father in Outer Plutonia, she does NOT receive anything of monetary value. She only receives the warm fuzzies of knowing that she’s helped Dear Old Dad make it in the tough Outer Plutonian economy. Outer Plutonia gets a little richer, because Dear Old Dad has a little more money to spend, and the US gets a little poorer, because Dutiful Daughter has less money to spend.
It is all so simple right? Ever heard of a trade deficit?
Or how about George Clooney (pick whatever rich paisano you care to) spends millions of dollars on a mansion in Italy. What did you gain there? He takes his hard earned US dollars and throws extravagant parties. Unless you got invited you or your country didn’t gain a thing.
But you needn’t go so far, there are thousands of American citizens residing in México at this moment spending their Social Security checks each month. Put that in you coin slot and save it.
That ignores her own contributions to the US economy, including multiplier effects, resulting from the work she did to earn that money in the first place. Work which is the primary reason for her coming here in the first place. Do you really think the US would be better off overall without that?
After all these centuries of being a land of immigrants (you or your ancestors included), and with all the wonderful results we have experienced from that, have we really reached the point of wanting to pull the ladder back up with us?
Yeah,it’s an old story.
By the way, that “Outer Plutonia” is just a bit too cute. We know you’re talking about the Mexicans. And we’ve been told the Mexicans just won’t assimilate, unlike the earlier immigrants. There are always a few agitators & newcomers who don’t know their place in society.
How soon they forget.
I imagine she has. It doesn’t mean it isn’t something she wants to avoid.
Most of us would rather George Clooney stayed in America and continued churning out Ocean’s movies.
Yes but no one wants to take away any of his rights now, do they?
And your fellow countrymen in México? Are they to be denied their hard earned pensions because they choose to spend it outside of the USA?
yeah how soon they forget. like I mentioned upthread the anti-immigrant stand from latinos only comes into play 3 or 4 generations down. guess you could say they truly are american now.
That’s all I’m trying to say!! Did we bend over backwards to have signs,school papers,advertisements,etc.etc. in Italian,Polish,Chinese,or any other language? No, the immigrants from these countries came here to BECOME a part of a great nation.They HAD to learn to speak American. Not any time I was in school did parent notification papers come home in English and (insert native land of your choice here). So why the back-breaking,bend over system for hispanics? Divided we stand? Is that how it went? Everyone wants to quote this and paraphrase that, but does it not say that english would be the only language of this once great land? I’m all for letting anyone work here, but not if there are hundreds on the street corner saying" Si’ I hab twelb guys in my cheby ban who will do it off de boooks for less pesos. eh hm I means doolars.
Of course not. And despite the argument you’ve been having with strawmen for a page or so, nobody is suggesting that Mexicans or anyone else in the US should not be allowed to spend their money elsewhere.
Where does it say that English would be the only language of this once great land? :dubious:
I remember my first beer, too.
“speak American”?
Oh, the example you gave* is* a guy speaking English, even though you’ve tried to represent some kind of Jose Jimenez accent.
Your style has improved since your first posts, but you can hardly represent yourself as an advocate for the beautiful English language.
Considering how strictly Mexico enforces its own laws about people crossing “imaginary lines”, any Mexican complaining about the United States enforcing its own borders has absolutely no moral grounds on which to stand. If you claim the right to freely enter our country, you have no business denying others the right to freely enter yours.
But it’s not really about what’s right or fair, is it, CB? It’s about getting as much as possible for Mexicans at the expense of Americans. It isn’t about moral principles at all.
Oh, I’m sorry we all couldn’t go to Harvard. I had to start working at 14 to send money to my legal immigrant parents who, by the way, spent that money here to keep this economy going.And if you must know,(I know you’re not supposed to start a sentence with and)I believe their first purchase was an American flag made right here. Now go ahead and say something about my speech or punctuationbecause thats the issue here!!! ooops i 4got an apostrophe a comma and i spelled forgot wrong OMG lofl
Resident aliens in the United States are expected to carry proper documentation at all times. That requirement may or many not include a green card.
So–you were in some other country at 14, sending your money to your “legal immigrant” parents in the USA? That’s cold.
Resident aliens are required to carry proper documentation at all times. Nobody expects them to.
I’ve had to present my green card four times in 14 years (not including at airports). Once to get my driver’s license, once to get a replacement Social Security card, and twice to get jobs.