Texas State Rep. to Mexican Prez: Pay Us Back for Cost of Illegals
- Posted on April 5, 2012 at 10:46am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Texas State Rep. Lyle Larson has requested Mexico reimburse the state for the cost of illegal immigrants living in Texas. (Image source: San Antonio Express-News)
A Texas state legislator has written a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon asking for reimburse for the services the state provides to illegal immigrants.
State Rep. Lyle Larson, a Republican from San Antonio, sent the letter in late March, saying Texas spends between $6 billion and $8 billion a year on the estimated 1.6 million illegals in the state, including for health care, education, housing and incarceration.
He admitted to San Antonio’s KSAT-TV Texas probably won’t see a check from Mexico anytime soon, but said he hopes the letter will start a dialogue between the two countries.
“We need to sit down and figure this out from an economic viewpoint,” Larson told the San Antonio Express-News. “I don‘t believe anybody I’m aware of has asked the people in power in Mexico for compensation.”
In lieu of cash, he suggested Mexico allow U.S. companies enter mineral-rich areas of northern Mexico and collect the resources as a kind of in-kind payment, KSAT reported. Such a deal could benefit both the Texas and Mexico economies, he said, as the companies could employ Mexicans.
Larson told the station Calderon received his letter because the Mexican consulate in San Antonio contacted officials in Austin to follow up on the request.
A spokesman for the Mexican embassy told the Express-News neither the embassy nor Calderon has received the letter.
Larson previously filed a bill that would require agencies and organizations that receive state funding to determine citizenship status before providing services.
In August, Texas Gov. Rick Perry billed the federal government nearly $350 million for the state’s cost of incarcerating illegal immigrants, three days before launching his ill-fated bid for the GOP nomination for president of the United States.
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Comments (43)
deano24
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 9:39pmIf it costs Texas between $6 billion and $8 billion a year on the estimated 1.6 million illegals in the state, including for health care, education, housing and incarceration. Wouldn’t it be more cost effective to deport them. Travelocity offers a economy one way trip for $449 from Dallas,Tx. to Mexico City, Mexico.
Report Post »bcope01
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 7:46pmMexico will never pay us back, but we could stop all aid to Mexico. Reduce any aid by what is owed our welfare states.
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on April 6, 2012 at 12:01amOur current administation just sent 1.6 billion to Mexico. Not a loan just sent them the money.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 3:14pmI like the congressman’s idea and we should be reimbursed,it has to be in the trillions if you factor in the time the illegals have been here.Mexico is a failed narco state and at the rate we‘re going we’ll be a failed state as well.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 5:55pmI do not…. as it implies that we are actually willing to Rent them Space!
Report Post »Luke611
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:06pmHell Yes!!!
“…openning a dialogue…”? BS, continue to persist for REIMBURSEMENT.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 2:51pmWord!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 2:22pm15 September 1847: United States military forces take Mexico City. Do we need a repeat performance?
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 5:38pmYes.. provided you get rid of the Progressives in control. Thats the only way things will change in Mexico
Report Post »discus02
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 1:32pmIs there that much drug money in Mexico!
Report Post »dianna9490
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 1:24pmThank GOD we have a FEW elected officials THAT HAVE COMMON SENSE! Americans need to SLAM all the CRAP GOING ON BACK INTO THE FACE OF THE PEOPLE THAT STARTED IT! I really don’t blame Mexican illegals for being MAD – HECK THE MUSLIMS ARE TRAINING IN MEXICO COMING INTO THE USA; BECOMING A USA CITIZEN WITHIN MONTHS – THEN THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE ETC. SO I’M SURE THEY ARE JUST JEALOUS!
Report Post »Gryphon Moor
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:41pmIf Obamacare will mandate that you pay for insurance, or fine you until you do, what happens to all the illegal immigrants that show up to the Emergency room? Will there be a desk outside the entrance where they will be required to purchase an insurance policy before being allowed to enter? The answer is no. The issue, THE issue, of most concern to residents of the Southwest is stopping the flow of illegal immigrants, including Hezbollah and narco-terrorists, into the U.S. Wake up Congress, we need our Army out of Afghanistan and positioned along the border. I addressed that last statement to Congress because I trust our President about as far as I can spit.
Report Post »altops
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:16pmyour welcome….
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:11pmThey could fine the companies hiring them all, that law is already on the book. Newsflash…This Administration doesn’t enforce it worth a damn! ICE recently caught a horde of them, and this sorry for an excuse of an Administration is trying to pass out passes to allow them to remain. They’re hoping to secure as many votes as possible. Why is it that nobody can see their plan in this situation? Obama as ticked off the “white working class” for the “struggling Latino” vote. He’s hoping he can secure more votes int he southwestern states to offset the loss.
Report Post »Owt_Raged
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:08pmI don’t understand why we continue to support illegals? Nowhere in the Constitution, no matter how hard you try to twist it, does it say that citizens must provide support for people who enter our country illegally.
I would rather spend billions closing the border and deporting criminals than billions supporting them while they remain here illegally.
Report Post »SanDiegoCountyCitizen
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:05pmAn alternative would be for the State to capture illegal aliens and put them to work on freeway cleanup and other public projects to help defray the costs for them and their fellow Mexican citizens here illegally… I wonder how many minutes that would last before Eric Holder was suing Texas and filing a restraining order in federal court? Of course, the justice department might need to assign some of their lawyers who are currently being tasked with approving the tens of thousands of deportation waivers to that project….
Anyone else get the feeling that it’s time to scrape the Federal Government and work on building a strong Republic of States again?
Report Post »Nevermind
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:59amdrago
@nevermind aka encinom.
Making idiotic staments as usual i see, moron
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My favorite idiot troll with conspiracy theories! I am not anyone on this site but nevermind though your feeble brain will never accept it. Keep trolling though, it makes you feel important doesnt it?
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:59amThe only way to stop so called “illegals” (not what they are called here), from crossing into the US, is to shoot them on sight. They have proven they can and will go over around or under fences,but i have yet to see a dead illegal get up, and zombie his ass across the border.Yea sure, lets fine businesses that hire them,but if you do, make sure it hurts them, and makes them stop hiring these people, say maybe 1mil. a head .There is plenty of labor to pick crops, and do the work,most wont do,our prisons and ghettos are full of able bodied labors.Truth is, not one politician has the balls to make something like that happen…….
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:19pmOut of all of those sperm, you’re the one idiot that landed. How great for the rest of us.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:44amWaste of time because they are intentionally sending them here to take back the border states that they lost to us many many years ago. Usefull idiots for our traitorous regime…..
Report Post »Nevermind
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:32amHow abuot sending the bill to the companies in the USA that hire the illegals? The propblem with immigration will never be solved until you go to the source, the people hiring illegals. Its like the war on drugs going after drug users but not the dealers. Go into every factory, farm and construction site and fine the owner for each illegal employed and it will stop . Then they can actually hire an American worker.
Sad fact is none of this will ever happen since our economy has been built on cheap immigrant labor since the begining. If we actually paid americans a decent wage to do these jobs the cost of our good would triple . So we need to accept immigration since none of us want to go pick fruit in 100 degrees for $3 an hour
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:52am@nevermind aka encinom.
Report Post »Making idiotic staments as usual i see, moron…
thegreatcarnac
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:30amSome of the things Mexico has pulled along the border and involving the “illegal issue” are simply acts of war. Had Texas been it’s own nation again…we would have already invaded mexico and won. The democrats and some republicans in the US Congress are being paid off by special interests to igonore the problem. Afterall…’it is just the south and the Southwest…it is not happening in New England’.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:25amIt’s not Mexicos fault…. It’s our Criminal Federal Governments Fault….. The Democrats need a whole new set of welfare recipients…… And they knew just where to get them !!!
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:42amAgreed, Texas should be taking one out of the One’s playbook and suing the federal government for reimbursement for the costs, because the feds won’t enforce those inconvenient laws that are already on the books. Now Clownitano and the Czar of Wordsmithery have come up with a new terminology for illegal immigrants: “unlawful presence waivers.” She should talk to Shane Bauer and friends about how other countries treat illegal immigrants. They are immigrants not aliens, because they are from this planet, although I wonder if the occupants of the White House might not be aliens.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:51amSo we just take it out of the Fedweal Treasury? God you people are so dumb. When you go to the store do you take money out of your right pocket and put it in your left pocket before you buy something?
If we started closing the doors of the companies that hired illegals this would stop. Maybe prison time for those who own the companies to wake them up…just a threat would do…You could fine them , but they just raise their prices and are still cheaper than the honest business.
Report Post »Sheriff Joe Rocks
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:24amI have been saying this for years. 20 barrels of oil for every 1 illegal caught.
Report Post »Mexico OWES us money.
Airgun
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:14amI suggest using the American military to topple the corrupt Mexican socialist govt. and then invite all the beneficiaries of American generosity who are currently helping collapse the economy to return to their homeland and create the country they truly desire to live in.
Report Post »While we’re there we can annihilate the Hezbolla and Al-Quaeda thugs and clear cut the border region for 100 miles into Mexico to help facilitate apprehension of illegal migrants and smugglers who have been creating the war zone down there for the last 50 years.
flagbearer
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:14amIt isn’t until Mexico is hurt financially that its government will fully help with the flood of illegals. Good for this rep, although it is only a symbolic gesture. Let’s hope it does open a dialogue.
Report Post »pugczar
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:01amYes, this would fix the problem and greatly reduce our deficit…but they haven’t received the letter yet *snicker*. I hope it wasn’t sent by courier.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:06amI wouldn’t send it to them directly, that’s a symbolic gesture. I would process it through the bank that holds/processes their money. In that sense, it wouldn’t matter what that country did. Just because you throw your credit card bill in the trash doesn‘t mean you don’t owe the money.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 10:57amPerhaps if we got some more of that Canadian oil .. we could stop buying some from middle east and MEXICO .. obviously they don’t want to pay for their poor who they send here with that money.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 11:43amOr even better yet .. (should not have left THIS OUT) DRILL HERE >>DRILL BABY DRILL!
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 10:53amThis has been my stance since the beginning. Charge the country of origin a fee for every illegal immigrant that we have to deport back to their country. Also, bill that same country for every service we provide. I guarantee you that the problem would be fixed almost over night. No fence needed.
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:00pm@Firebrand.
Report Post »And how would you collect the money? You honestly think, messico would willingly fork over some cash?
Firebrand
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:32pmThe money is collected from a third party who then holds the debt. That debt still exists whether the country being charged pays it or not. If they don’t pay, their currency value decreases. If they print money to pay it off, their currency value decreases…etc.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:41pmFor instance, we start taking the money from the other country’s account at the Reserve Bank in New York. The bank then holds the difference (debt) which has to either be paid back or defaulted on. If the cost of the fees and services are made universal, and the US is charged for every one of our illegal immigrants, a debt swap system can be setup so that each country pays the difference.
X-Y=Z
Report Post »Where X is “fees collected”, Y is “fees due”, and Z is the resultant amount owed to or due from each country.
blanco5
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 10:50amParkland Hospital in Dallas sent mexico a bill for all of the anchor babies and general overflow of the ER for colds and such. I am sure they promptly filed these in the trash can.
Report Post »Gryphon Moor
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:44pmRight. You saw in the story above that Mexico claimed they never received the letter. I would guess the postman was kidnapped and later decapitated.
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