If we had that much money laying around we’d just build the damn wall<\/b>
\nI bet the head of Homeland Security is sitting in his office right about now saying, \u201c How did we not think of this first?\u201d
The leaders of the migrant caravan currently parked on the other side of the Mexican border have come up with a brilliant solution to the standoff that\u2019s been going on for quite some time now. They\u2019re tired of waiting to have their asylum claims heard and are unhappy with all of their comrades being arrested when they try to cross the border illegally. So roughly 100 of them have contacted our government with a counteroffer. Just give each of them $50K and they\u2019ll go back home. (Washington Times)
A group of about 100 Central American migrants currently camped out in Tijuana, Mexico, have reportedly sent a letter to the U. S. government demanding entry or $50,000 each to go back to their home countries.
The group, organized by Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa of Honduras, marched to the U. S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday morning to present a letter of demands, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
\u201cIt may seem like a lot of money to you,\u201d Mr. Ulloa said of the proposed $50,000 payout. \u201cBut it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.\u201d
The group has generously given us 72 hours to respond and make the deal. What happens if we don\u2019t answer within the allotted time? They don\u2019t know, but they\u2019ll think of something.
Hey, let\u2019s give credit where credit is due. It\u2019s a bold plan. Of course, it\u2019s also preposterous. First of all, what exactly has the United States \u201cstolen\u201d from Honduras? (This is assuming they had anything worth stealing.) And if we were going to pay these sorts of reparations for our supposed transgressions against that nation, we\u2019d be giving the money to their government, not to a band of individuals threatening to illegally enter our country.
Just gaming this out to its illogical conclusion, we could spend five million dollars and have 100 of the migrants go back home. (I\u2019m not sure, but I think $50K makes you a millionaire in Honduras. The average annual income there is roughly $580 U. S.) But when the entirety of the caravan gets here, that will be roughly 6,000 people. So I assume they will all turn around and go home for the bargain basement price of\u2026 $300M.
You know, if we had that sort of petty cash lying around we could probably build the wall from the beach near Tijuana well past all the authorized entry points in that region. And we wouldn\u2019t have to give the migrants a dime.
In any event, this clearly constitutes a threat of some sort. Perhaps a blackmail attempt. If they all signed off on that letter I would suggest sending the list of names down to the border and putting them on the \u201cNo Amnesty For You\u201d list. I\u2019m assuming we have one of those, anyway.<\/p>\n