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Subject: Re: President of Honduras Threaten Trump Over Deporting Illegals
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:42:45 -0500
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On 2025-01-03 10:11 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 1/3/2025 7:54 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2025-01-03 7:06 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> Honduran President Xiomara Castro just issued a threat to President 
>>> Trump,
>>> saying she'll shutdown U.S. military bases if he deports Honduran
>>> nationals.
>>>
>>> "Faced with a hostile attitude of mass expulsion of our brothers, we 
>>> would
>>> have to consider a change in our policies of cooperation with the United
>>> States, especially in the military arena, where, without paying a 
>>> cent for
>>> decades, they maintain military bases in our territory, which in this 
>>> case
>>> would lose all reason to exist in Honduras.
>>>
>>> "We hope that the new U.S. administration of democratically elected
>>> President Donald Trump will be open to dialogue, constructive and 
>>> friendly,
>>> and will not take unnecessary reprisals against our migrants, who 
>>> normally
>>> make a great contribution to the U.S. economy."
>>>
>>> -------------------
>>> The balls on her.
>>>
>>> Here's a more honest version of her statement: "Honduras is such a 
>>> shitpile
>>> (because of the political corruption of which I am a huge part) that our
>>> population is fleeing like rats off a sinking ship and illegally 
>>> invading
>>> the U.S., but America better not do anything to stop it or we'll be big
>>> mad."
>>>
>>> And if illegal Honduran aliens make such great contributions to the 
>>> United
>>> States economy, shouldn't she be pleased that they'll be coming back 
>>> home
>>> to contribute there?
>>>
>>> Here's my counteroffer:
>>>
>>> In FY 2023, the Department of State and USAID provided $785.05 
>>> million in
>>> bilateral, regional, centrally managed, and humanitarian assistance to
>>> Honduras. Additionally, the Soto Cano Air Base to which she refers
>>> contributes another $200 million annually to the Honduran economy.
>>>
>>> So if Presidente Castro wants to fuck around, we'll just find other uses
>>> for all that tax money and she'll find out to the tune of a billion- 
>>> dollar
>>> loss in her country's revenue.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, she can shut her trap and get on board with Operation
>>> Repatriation.
>>
>> I expect her loss will be considerably more than a billion dollars. 
>> I'll bet remittances from Hondurans living in America is worth a very 
>> pretty penny and is a major plus to the families that get them and to 
>> the government itself, assuming they tax those remittances. Deporting 
>> Hondurans back to Honduras is going to put a very major dent in that  
>> remittance money AND any taxes collected on those remittances.
> 
> Why would such remittances be declared made subject to taxation?
> 
> 
Because governments - ALL governments! - love money and anything that 
can be taxed is an opportunity to make money so that the politicians can 
pay for the things that they deem important. That includes programs that 
help "the people" and those that help the politicians, like magnificent 
palaces for themselves.

-- 
Rhino