The other day I noted that an AMLO win in Mexico might influence potential immigrants to stay in or go to Mexico for the free stuff resulting from the socialist system Mr. AMLO was expected to put in place.
Well, there's another side to that. Monica Showalter puts it in the form of a question, Will we get a better quality of illegal under Mexico's new president, AMLO? Excerpt:
Basically, his election signals a bid to grab back Mexico's underclass from the United States and shower them with benefits at home to keep himself popular. ...
Taxes are likely to skyrocket. Good jobs are likely to shrink. And the people who will be hurt from that? Mexico's middle class, the hardworking, educated Mexicans who have jobs, pay taxes, and aren't going to like AMLO's skyrocketing taxes as he insults them with claims that they are "the rich" and need to be taxed a little more.
The Venezuela and Cuba examples show that first it's the middle class who flee, then the lower middle class, and then the poor, after their home country has run out of other people's money. Mexico, at the front of its new socialist administration, will likely have money from taxes and will drive out its middle classes first. The poor, meanwhile, will likely stay put, at least until the Other People's Money runs out.
Net result: Immigrants and aliens from Mexico (who are declining in numbers here already due to Mexico's own population declines and rising incomes) will be less likely to want welfare here and more likely to want opportunity here.
Hmm. Very interesting. In the short term, this might be good for the U.S. However, the lessons of Venezuela and Cuba tell us that in the long run we'll still need The Wall.
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12:40 PM 7/2/2018
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