Thread: Top Honduran Official Predicts Exodus After Texas Enacts Anti-Sanctuary City Law

Top Honduran Official Predicts Exodus After Texas Enacts Anti-Sanctuary City Law

ALEX PFEIFFER
Reporter
4:53 PM 05/09/2017

Honduras’ deputy foreign minister is preparing for an exodus of Hondurans from Texas after the state outlawed sanctuary cities.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 4 into law on Sunday night, which calls for criminal penalties for sheriffs and police chiefs whose agencies refuse to comply with federal immigration detainers. Travis County, home to Austin, has refused to comply with dozens of immigration detainers including those for immigrants accused of sexual assault.

A Pew report found that nearly 120,000 Hondurans lived in Texas in 2013, and Andrea Matamoros, Honduras’ deputy foreign minister, told Proceso Digital Monday that her country will take the four months before SB4 goes into effect to take steps to protect immigrants who could face deportation.

Matamoros said in the interview that she predicts that many Hondurans will flee Texas to other states with more relaxed immigration laws.

MESA, AZ – FEBRUARY 28: A Honduran immigration detainee boards a deportation flight to San Pedro Sula, Honduras on February 28, 2013 in Mesa, Arizona. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), operates 4-5 flights per week from Mesa to Central America, deporting hundreds of undocumented immigrants detained in western states of the U.S. With the possibility of federal budget sequestration, ICE released 303 immigration detainees in the last week from detention centers throughout Arizona. More than 2,000 immigration detainees remain in ICE custody in the state. Most detainees typically remain in custody for several weeks before they are deported to their home country, while others remain for longer periods while their immigration cases work through the courts. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The Honduran official said, “We are developing an information campaign to help our compatriots in Texas.”

Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico have all moved to start measures to help immigrants in the U.S. after Trump took office.

(RELATED: Mexico’s Foreign Ministry Warns Illegals In U.S. To ‘Take Precautions’ Against Deportation)

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/09/to...uary-city-law/

Anyone from anywhere that does NOT have proper documentation to be in USA should EXIT ASAP!

We have laws and they will be enforced finally after a 16yr hiatus - that is why trump was elected - IF HE STEPS UP TO THE PLATE AND DELIVERS AS PROMISED.

Honduras' Central Bank: Emigration to U.S. Is a Cause for Concern

By Kausha Luna, September 30, 2015

The United Nations' new development agenda presents migration and remittances as a contribution to development. However, the vice president of Honduras' Central Bank (BCH), Manuel Bautista, said in a recent interview that emigration and remittances are a source of concern for Honduras.

Bautista's comments need to be understood in the context of a 2007 report by the BCH on family remittances and a profile of remittance senders. The report shows emigration to the U.S. from Honduras has had a negative impact on the productivity of the work force. The data shows labor inactivity increased by 9.1 percent in 2006. The emigrant population (estimated at more than 1 million out of the country's current population of 8.6 million) is a significant portion of Honduras' labor force because almost all (92.5 percent) are between 15 and 49 years old. Furthermore, the able workers receiving remittances often stop looking for jobs and others use remittances as early retirement funds.

The BCH has also expressed concern regarding remittance use. Over 80 percent of remittances are used for consumption, including about 43 percent spent on food and drink, 16 percent used on housing and energy, and 9.1 percent on health. Only 6.9 percent of remittances are allocated to education and a very small portion are put into savings or invested.

Emigration from Honduras is not causing a "brain-drain" of skilled workers. The data shows 63 percent of Honduran emigrants have only completed a primary education. And the number of Honduran emigrants with a high school education or above is decreasing; in 1998 41.9 percent of emigrants had a high school education or above, this fell to 38.7 percent between 1999 and 2003, and decreased again to 31 percent between 2004 and 2006. The progressively lower educational level among emigrants is partially explained by an increase in emigration from rural areas.

It should be noted that the majority of these emigrants are not coming from the lowest earning households. Only 8.1 percent of emigrants come from the poorest quintile, because the cost of emigration is too high for many in this portion of the population. And 28 percent of emigrants fall in the top quintile. Of those surveyed, 93.3 percent cited economic improvement as their reason for emigrating.

The absence of a brain-drain may have positive implications for Honduras' development, but it should be disconcerting to the U.S. A recent report from the Center points to the correlation between low levels of education and high rates of welfare use in the United States. Thus, a continued influx of uneducated immigrants would create significant welfare costs.

Ultimately, as the BCH concludes in its report, emigration and remittances are not resolving extreme poverty.

Additional information:

At the time the BCH published its report in 2007, remittances sent to Honduras were decreasing. However, remittances sent to Honduras have increased by 10. 8 percent in 2015.


The Honduran government has put into play several initiatives to curb emigration levels, largely focusing on child emigration. See: "Hondurans, Listen to the Children!"

http://cis.org/luna/honduras-central...-cause-concern

See also;

US signs historic deal with El Salvador and Honduras for remittance securitization

In a speech in New York City on September 22, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained how BRIDGE would work to raise critically needed development funding:

“…Now, if they [migrants] send these remittances through the formal financial system, they create huge funding flows that are orders of magnitude larger than any development assistance we can dream of. By harnessing the potential of remittances, BRIDGE will make it easier for communities in El Salvador and Honduras to get the financing they need to build roads and bridges, for example, to support entrepreneurs, to make loans, to bring more people into the financial system…..Through BRIDGE and its in-country partners, local banks will be able to leverage their remittance flows….With the leverage from remittances, the local banks will be able to get lower-cost, longer-term financing for investments in infrastructure projects and small businesses.”

The financing structure proposed under BRIDGE is similar to that used by banks in several remittance-receiving countries such as Brazil, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru and Turkey, to raise over $15 billion in international financing during the last decade (see previous work on this topic by my colleagues Dilip Ratha and Suhas Ketkar on securitization of future-flow receivables and new paths to funding).

https://www.alipac.us/f9/us-signs-hi...zation-326684/

Honduras has a climate that would make for a tourist destination extraordinaire - WAKE UP CENTRAL AMERICA AND GET your citizens OUT OF USA - American citizens and our laws will not permit you to be here - we do not want you here - OUR CITIZENS WILL NOT PAY FOR YOU AND YOURS, MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY, WHICH IS A LOT - YOU NEED TO STOP CHILD MOLESTATION - NO ONE IN THIS DAY AND AGE ACCEPTS THAT.

Go back to your countries - you do not have permission to be here.