Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: 2 Nov 2024 16:58:17 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <8ehfhj9jphf08ssafje6l45ugf8dd4gjub@4ax.com> <94541d47-2c4d- Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="23688"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1721 Lynn McGuire wrote: >Ask Walmart. Around here, the illegals go to Walmart and bank cash >money into a Walmart savings account. Then their relatives go to a >Walmart in Mexico and withdraw the money as goods. Happens every day. It's true, but this is also how legal residents get remittences to their families abroad as well. Walmart has agreements with three different wire transfer companies so you can go in and transfer to about anywhere. Lots of bodegas also have similar wire transfer arrangements available because of the sheer volume of remittences going out. Lots of folks come to the US for a year or two, work for minimum wage and Vigo all their money home to relatives who build a nice house for them and bank some of the money,and then they go home and live for a decade on that year of American income. Because money here isn't like money there. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."