"Directo a Mexico," the name of the program, enables US commercial banks to make money transfers for Mexican workers through the Federal Reserve's own automated clearinghouse, which is linked to Banco de Mexico, the Mexican central bank. Few Americans are aware of the connection between the Fed and foreign banks and this program would be just another that exists in the shadow world of international banking.
To use the service, a Mexican need only possess a matricula consular, an ID issued by the Mexican consulate in most major US cities to those with proof of Mexican birth or citizenship, or a picture ID card issued by the US or another foreign government. The idea is to make it "cheaper and safer" for illegal workers to send funds to their relatives in Mexico.
While on the surface this may appear to be a good idea for banks, it's an idea based on lawbreakers being given assistance in moving their money around. The Mexican drug trafficker will be able to take advantage of this new banking system as much as the illegal worker cleaning toilets.
Most law enforcement commanders recognize the Matricula Consular card as a useless identification document. In fact, some US government agencies still refuse to accept them as identification documents.
Most illegal aliens make cash transfers, which average $350 each, through companies like Western Union or a hodgepodge of wire-transfer firms, couriers and others that operate out of storefronts in Hispanic enclaves. Family members then collect the wired cash at a shop in their town or village.
The Federal Reserve Bank's primary goal is to use the program to draw hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into our banking system because commercial banks require that those wanting the service first open a savings account. While American citizens will continue to be required to show extensive identification and proof of residence, illegal aliens will only be required to show a Matricula Consular card, which are known to be counterfeited and sold by human smugglers.
"People who didn't have bank accounts establish a relationship with us," said James Maloney, chairman of Mitchell Bank in Milwaukee, one of the first banks to offer the Federal Reserve Bank's remittance scheme, according to the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper that favors using illegal alien workers.
"It's great for our business," said Maloney.
Remittances sent by Mexicans topped $15.5 billion in the first few months of this year, 20 percent higher than the amount sent during the same period the previous year, according to Mexico's central bank, and this year's annual figure is expected to hit a new record. Savings scraped together by nannies, painters and others working abroad are now Mexico's second-largest source of foreign revenue, after oil exports and ahead of tourism, according to analysts interviewed by the WSJ.
The Federal Reserve Bank, always a friend to foreign interests, is instructing illegal aliens that should they return home on their own or should they be deported, their money is safe whether it was obtained working as a busboy in a restaurant or working as an enforcer in a sex-slave house.
The Fed has already set up a system by which illegals can retrieve their money through easy access at an ATM in Mexico using their debit cards.
And whom do we have to thank for this financial windfall for illegal aliens? The US federal government.
One of the stated objectives is to continue to help lower the fees paid by Mexican workers to send money to their native country. It's bargain time for illegal aliens.
"Now, if only Obama and the rest of our elected officials would look out for the interests of US citizens during these tough economic times," quipped political strategist Mike Baker.
"As for mobsters, they will have an even easier time laundering the ill-gotten gains," he added.
He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.
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Comments
The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Do they want to export all American dollars to Mexico? As it is, there aren't very many American families left that can afford to live in their houses anymore. Now illegal immigrants are being assisted in exporting their illegal employment funds to Mexico. Great, first they steal our jobs and then they send the money to Mexico while collecting taxpayer dollars to educate their kids and provide free healthcare, housing and food to their families here. So American taxpayers get to pay for the ones here as well as the ones left in Mexico. This is CRAZY.
Where's the IRS? How come they aren't applying a witholding-type tax-rate of 30% on international remiitances, for non-US Citizens?
This is as corrupt as the TARP and Stimulus programs. Bear in mind that the FED is part of the government, along with Geithner at Treasury. The goal is to get in as many illegals as possible to pad the Democratic Party voting rolls. And our government banks make money from illegals. The taxpayers get obliterated.
Of course the Fed would help gangsters launder money, they are the biggest criminal syndicate in history! The Federal Reserve is a criminal institution and should be dismantled and its members investigated, tried and jailed. They have robbed the American people, enslaved them to perpetual interest payments and unpayable debt, and bankrupted the government. Now they even hire lobbyists with OUR money to stop Congress from so much as finding out where they have been showering trillions of out dollars. Thanks for the article Mr. Kouri.
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