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But uh, taking offense that their currency has value in this country? That's pretty bad.
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No his point is that the company is facillitating illegal immigration i.e. facillitating people breaking the law.
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I wouldn't go quite that far. What I'm saying is that this is a symptom of a very serious problem, rather than a very serious problem in and of itself.
I don't think that the fact that illegal immigrants can buy stuff with pesos in the US really increases the number of illegal immigrants.
But when businesses are accepting Mexican currency in their ordinary course of business, that indicates that illegal immigration has become pervasive.
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Baseless assertion. I've yet to see anyone show that illegals make up any significant amount of the people using these pesos-acceptance services. So it's hard to take seriously the people protesting that they're not racist or xenophobic when they've never shown that "illegal aliens" are responsible for these types of programs.
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I just assumed that people shopping for goods in the U.S. and paying for those goods with Mexican pesos got those pesos in Mexico. Maybe they went to their local bank and changed U.S. pesos for Mexican pesos then went to the store to buy goods in the U.S. with Mexican pesos. Doubt it though. I realize that it could be people in the country legally that came from Mexico. However, the operative word is facillitating. The definition of facilitate:
Facilitate Definition
To make easy or easier:
example: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.
Nowhere did I claim that illegals are the majority of people using the Mexican pesos. What I am claiming is that having businesses except Mexican pesos as payment makes it easier for people from Mexico that enter the country illegally. I think the reason is obvious but maybe not.