I remember listening to a podcast about this some time ago. There's a whole network of banking operations run by the usual suspects down in South America who finance these trips with extortionate interest that ensures the illegal alien is on the hook whether they make it to the USA or not. It's a self-sustaining economy.
Yep. Anyone (in the government) who seriously wanted to stop it could do so tomorrow. Seize the cash, freeze the accounts, shoot a couple invaders (the rest will flee), boom problem solved.
Won't happen until the system collapses. We await Caesar.
From the "holding ransom" part I'd assume some times it's from extortion after they cross and start making/stealing money. "Pay the debt or your wife disappears" kind of thing
The real question is how are these dirt-poor Venezuelans affording 15 thousand American dollars?
I remember listening to a podcast about this some time ago. There's a whole network of banking operations run by the usual suspects down in South America who finance these trips with extortionate interest that ensures the illegal alien is on the hook whether they make it to the USA or not. It's a self-sustaining economy.
Yep. Anyone (in the government) who seriously wanted to stop it could do so tomorrow. Seize the cash, freeze the accounts, shoot a couple invaders (the rest will flee), boom problem solved.
Won't happen until the system collapses. We await Caesar.
Are any of the people funding these groups happen to have a hook nose?
From the "holding ransom" part I'd assume some times it's from extortion after they cross and start making/stealing money. "Pay the debt or your wife disappears" kind of thing
Because it's not the poor coming it's their rich.