Re: President of Honduras Threaten Trump Over Deporting Illegals

On 1/4/2025 4:45 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-01-04 11:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

On 1/4/2025 10:42 AM, Rhino wrote:

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.
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"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.
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"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."
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The balls on her.
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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."
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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?
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Here's my counteroffer:
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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.
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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.
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Otherwise, she can shut her trap and get on board with Operation
Repatriation.

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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.

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Why would such remittances be declared [and thus] made subject to taxation?
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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.

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[Inserted left-out words above "and thus"]
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What I don't understand is why recipients would declare those funds.
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Somehow or another, that money makes it back to the home country of the people that make the remittances, presumably through bank ha
transfers of some kind. (I've seen ads for apps that can be used for remittances but I assume they still use banking systems like SWIFT in one way or another.) The government presumably has reporting requirements for banks so that the government system is notified about all money coming into the country and then sees the remittances as income that is eligible for taxation. If the recipient of the remittance doesn't pay the appropriate tax, the government notices because it hasn't collected as much tax as it expected and sends their equivalent of the IRS after the person who hasn't paid the tax.
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Do you not know ANYTHING about how government works??

 Iirc, bank transfers of more than $10k are flagged.  And the remittances we're discussing seem likely to be well below that threshold.