• President of Honduras Threaten Trump Over Deporting Illegals

    From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 00:06:47 2025
    Honduran President Xiomara Castro just issued a threat to President Trump, saying she'll shutdown U.S. military bases if he deports Honduran
    nationals.

    "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.

    "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."

    -------------------
    The balls on her.

    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."

    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?

    Here's my counteroffer:

    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.

    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.

    Otherwise, she can shut her trap and get on board with Operation
    Repatriation.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 3 19:54:59 2025
    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.

    "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.

    "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."

    -------------------
    The balls on her.

    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."

    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?

    Here's my counteroffer:

    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.

    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.

    Otherwise, she can shut her trap and get on board with Operation Repatriation.

    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.

    --
    Rhino

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Rhino on Fri Jan 3 22:11:34 2025
    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.

    "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.

    "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."

    -------------------
    The balls on her.

    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."

    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?

    Here's my counteroffer:

    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.

    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.

    Otherwise, she can shut her trap and get on board with Operation
    Repatriation.

    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.

    Why would such remittances be declared made subject to taxation?

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  • From Ed Stasiak@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 04:30:03 2025
    moviePig
    Rhino
    BTR1701

    Honduran President Xiomara Castro just issued a threat to President Trump, saying she'll shutdown U.S. military bases if he deports Honduran nationals.

    As I suspected, the U.S. base is militarily irrelevant for us and is used primarily
    for flying in that $780 million of U.S. tax payer funded foreign aid...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soto_Cano_Air_Base

    The U.S. government once used Palmerola (as previously known) as a base of operations
    to support its foreign policy objectives in the 1980s. Now the U.S. military uses Soto Cano
    as a launching point for humanitarian aid missions throughout Honduras and Central
    America.[3]

    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.

    Why would such remittances be declared made subject to taxation?

    Well, not directly taxed but that money is spent in Honduras and that gets taxed and
    that money amounted to _$3.4 BILLION_ in American money going back to Honduras from migrants (and that was in 2016, it's no doubt FAR higher nowadays).

    https://i.postimg.cc/pTNcFLMk/temp-Image-TCk-JA9.avif

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 4 01:08:08 2025
    On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 22:11:34 -0500, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    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.

    Why would such remittances be declared made subject to taxation?

    They're not at the US end; on the Honduran end who knows?

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