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infoguy123@aol.com (InfoGuy123) wrote in message news:<20041010092223.22732.00001860@mb-m15.aol.com>...
> To summarize:
> 
> 1. We give illegal aliens free medical care, Food Stamps for their US-born
> kids, free breakfast and lunch for both their US-born and illegal alien kids,
> Affirmative Action preferences over US citizens. 
> 
> 2. We let them drive, as unlicensed drivers, their unregistered, uninsured cars
> while US citizens have to jump through every expensive hoop imaginable to drive
> legally and avoid being arrested and having their cars impounded. 
> 
> 3. As seen in California a couple of weeks ago, we cancel drunk driving
> checkpoints after illegal alien supporters complain that such traffic safety
> checkpoints are "racist."
> 
> 4. We let illegal aliens engage in all manner of other illegal activity, be it
> the large-scale growing of marijuana plants in state and US national forests to
> the extent that US citizen park visitors are now warned to avoid certain areas
> lest they run into these illegal alien growers.
> 
> 5. "Our" (what a joke) government now not only allows but ENCOURAGES (see
> recent Bush policies) illegal aliens to increase their already epic
> strip-mining of America by shipping even MORE billions of illegally-earned
> dollars out of the USA.
> 
> 
> Oct. 9, 2004 
> 
> Immigrants in the United States send billions back to Mexico 
> 
> The Associated Press 
> 
>  PHOENIX - Driving through the cobblestone streets of his hometown of San Jose
> De Mendoza, Mexico, in a shiny new pickup, Alfredo Chalico passes adobe homes
> being torn down and rebuilt with red bricks. 
> While burros and goats are still common sights in this farming village in the
> central state of Guanajuato, so are pickup trucks and color televisions hooked
> up to new DVD players showing the latest movies. 
> 
> The growing economic prosperity in this small rancho, or farming village, is
> the direct result of an infusion of American dollars sent home by hundreds of
> local residents like Chalico, a Phoenix businessman who left behind poverty to
> find work in the United States. Community leaders estimate that one-third of
> the town's 5,000 residents, and 70 percent of its men, live in the United
> States. 
> 
> The amount of money Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans send to Mexico
> this year will easily exceed the record-setting $13.3 billion sent last year,
> experts say, and is now Mexico's second-highest source of foreign income after
> oil exports. 
> 
> Chalico, however, is an extraordinary case, a former undocumented immigrant who
> gained U.S. citizenship, built a successful tire business, and now helps boost
> his hometown's economy in ways that go far beyond the typical immigrant. 
> 
> The average immigrant toiling in construction or restaurant jobs manages to
> send home a few hundred dollars a month. Chalico, who lives two out of three
> months a year in Phoenix, sometimes sends home as much as $4,000 to his wife,
> Lorenza, and their two children, Alfred, 4, and Eladio, 19 months. His wife and
> children moved back to Mexico this year and live in a $200,000 ranch house with
> a large sloping lawn in an exclusive country-club neighborhood in Irapuato, a
> city of 350,000 people about 30 miles from Chalico's hometown. 
> 
> With profits from Llantera del Valle, his $500,000-a-year tire business in
> Phoenix, Chalico also has been buying property, opening businesses and
> employing workers in Mexico who otherwise might head to the United States. 
> 
> He also pools his money with other immigrants from the same hometown to finance
> bigger projects. For the first time ever, San Jose de Mendoza's health clinic
> is equipped with an ambulance. The town's crumbling church is undergoing major
> reconstruction. And when school opened in August, 84 preschool and kindergarten
> students returned to freshly painted classrooms, upgraded light fixtures and
> new learning materials paid for with money earned by immigrants working in the
> United States and matched by the Mexican government. 
> 
> About 1.5 million people from Guanajuato live in the United States, fourth in
> total number behind the states of Michoacan, Jalisco and Zacatecas. 
> 
> Last year, immigrants sent $1.2 billion to relatives in Guanajuato, the third
> highest amount behind Jalisco, $1.3 billion, and Michoacan, $1.7 billion,
> according to the Bank of Mexico. 
> 
> Under a government economic-development program created in 2000, for each
> dollar contributed by immigrants, the municipality, the state and the federal
> government each chip in as much as an additional dollar, multiplying each
> dollar made in the United States by three, and thus the program's name, Tres
> por Uno, Three for One. 
> 
> Last year, the government financed 92 projects totaling $3.7 million in 32
> towns in Guanajuato including the church in San Jose de Mendoza. Of that, $1.1
> million came from immigrants in the United States. 
> 
> Chalico was 15 when he struck out for the United States nearly 20 years ago.
> His father, Eladio, 91, owned a small ranch but had a difficult time supporting
> his 11 children. 
> 
> Chalico hitched a ride to Irapuato, a large agricultural center, and then
> hopped a bus to the border. He crossed illegally through the desert near Yuma. 
> 
> Chalico didn't tell anyone he was going, not even his parents. They remember
> being worried sick when he didn't return home from school. 
> 
> "We looked all over for him. I was crying and my husband was real mad,"
> Chalico's 78-year-old mother, Amada, recalled. 
> 
> At the border Chalico encountered three men from his hometown. They agreed to
> help him get a job picking cauliflower and watermelons on a farm in Marana on
> one condition: If Chalico couldn't handle the work he would return to Mexico. 
> 
> He toiled in the dusty fields as long as 16 hours a day, six days a week. 
> 
> He worked 10 months on the farm in Marana and another farm in Scottsdale. After
> that he got a job cleaning stalls on a horse farm in Buckeye, and then fixing
> flats at Villa Tire, a tire shop in southwest Phoenix. 
> 
> In 1993, when the owner wanted to retire, Chalico bought the tire business,
> changed the name to Llantera del Valle and moved the business. He employs six
> full-time and three part-time workers. The shop sells new and used tires. Every
> day, Chalico and his employees drive trucks to car dealerships throughout the
> Phoenix area to collect used tires, which they resell at Llantera del Valle.
> His mostly Mexican-immigrant customers can't afford new tires. The shop sells
> about 35,000 used tires a year. 
> 
> The time Chalico spent as a farm worker made him eligible for legal residency
> under the 1986 amnesty. In 1987 Chalico got his green card. He became a
> naturalized U.S. citizen in 1998. He took English classes and earned his high
> school graduation equivalency diploma. 
> 
> At first, Chalico sent home about $300 a month. As Chalico's fortunes
> increased, so did the amount he sent. 
> 
> For at least 10 years Chalico has been buying farmland in San Jose de Mendoza.
> He now owns more than 65 acres. In August, he showed off the fields of sorghum
> and corn. 
> 
> "I made this property from the U.S.," Chalico boasted as he waded through a
> field of thigh-high sorghum. 
> 
> source: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/100904mex_money.html 
> "If ye love wealth better than liberty ... servitude better  than ... freedom,
> go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms ...  May your
> chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
>   - Samuel Adams

Herman