Compare this to the Hawala system in Islamic cultures. Both groups know something about “shared value communities” that whitebread middle class Americans clearly do not:
EL RODEO, Mexico: For years, millions of Mexican migrants working in the United States have sent money back home to villages like this one, money that allows families to pay medical bills and school fees, build houses and buy clothes or, if they save enough, maybe start a tiny business.
But after years of strong increases, the amount of migrant money flowing to Mexico has stagnated. From 2000 to 2006, remittances grew to nearly $24 billion a year from $6.6 billion, rising more than 20 percent some years. In 2007, the increase so far has been less than 2 percent.
Migrants and migration experts say a flagging American economy and an enforcement campaign against illegal workers in the United States have persuaded some migrants not to try to cross the border illegally to look for work. Others have decided to return to Mexico. And many of those who are staying in the United States are sending less money home.
Is that the “real” reason behind immigration crackdowns - the United States trying to protect its economic value so that it’s dollars aren’t flushed en masse out of the nation in an uncontrolled way (as far as centralized institutions are concerned)? Is that why the US government singled out Al Qaeda as a group in the first place: to attack the Hawala trust-based value exchange system?
I think it’s fucking awesome that Latin Americans send so much money back to their families and work so damned hard to be able to do so. People don’t give them enough credit for that shit!
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A lot of employers like immigrant workers because they can be exploited. That squeezes out people looking for entry level factory jobs, people like the recently released prisoners I work with. When I’ve asked them if they would leave America to work at a brutal job for two years, even ending up with permanent injuries but, that would mean they could build a house for their family, they always say they would do it. I don’t think I’ve ever met a middle class person who would answer the question that way.
Totally! Reminds me of DK on Kid Nation, who’s my new favorite kid on the show. He’s amazing. And he just won the $20,000 gold star and it’s all going to his family.
Hey, you know who are huge champions of Hispanic (and Iraqi) immigrants’ rights? Catholics. But you don’t hear about that unless you pay attention to that shit, which I do now because it’s my job. I think my perspective on them becomes less skewed by the day.