Arizona Can Get Coyote Rich

Here's $400MM the State of Arizona can have to relieve some of its financial woes.

Illegals pay upwards of $1000 and more to be brought into Arizona, usually through the desert, at night. Where do you think they're getting the money? Illegal workers in the U.S. send money home to Mexico. In the future they need to send an extra $1000, and the illegals need to bring that extra thousand.

Let's pretend...just suppose Arizona issues a citation, like a traffic ticket, to any illegal that's caught. The fine is $1000. With 400,000 streaming in each year what if we only catch 20% in the act and cite them. That's $80 Million. Or they can pay $500 for a 'free' flight back to Mexico City on a State-contracted charter with in-flight salsa, chips, and bottled water.

We're now $80 million to the good. Now, what about the illegals already working in-state? If Sheriff Joe--wait, he's perceived as a bad guy for enforcing laws. If any law enforcement officer finds an illegal and issues a citation, I figure there's another $320 million or so that is income Arizona hasn't enjoyed in the past.

Here's a cruncher:  how about if we make it illegal to send, wire, or transfer money to Mexico, so there's no money to pay the coyote, because you don't think that a 75-cents/hour minimum wage is going to yield an extra grand for the coyote anytime soon, do you?

"But wait," the liberal cries, "What about my Uncle Reed who got his wallet picked in Mazatlan and I need to get money into his account?" Call an airline and buy a ticket to get him home, transfer money into his account and have him call his bank to pay his hotel bill.

If a coyote can charge $1200 for me to risk my life following him through the desert with no water or gear for the elements, there's Arizona money for the taking.

Coyote money is good money, and ours for the taking if we would only do it.

"But wait!," Uncle Reed cries, now back in the U.S., "There's bipartisan legislation coming to our rescue for the 11 million poor souls having to lurk around within our borders." Yes, and once we've given a pass to those 11 million, ten million more from 'down South' are going to do whatever it takes to go North and attempt to contrive documents and conditions to qualify for the non-amnesty's amnesty [ed. It's amnesty. A frijole or free citizenship by any other name is still a frijole pass.]

My ancestors paid the fees, did the paperwork, waited, and even struggled to make English their primary language and were proud to do so. They wanted to do it the American way.

 Next thing you know, Canadians will exodus en masse seeking warmth and Obamacare and want a free pass to get it. Heaven help us all, then, eh?