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Immigrant Families Leave Arizona, Fearing Law

I was just talking to a friend of mine about this.

I was told 2 stories.

1 - An owner of a landscaping company went to where the day laborers were and tried to hire a few for a day job. The men said they would work for no less than $15.00 per hour. He offered $10.00, all under the table of course, and they refused.

2 - My friends father was moving to a new apartment and needed help. He is 75 years old and couldn't move anything. The day laborers demanded no less than $20.00 per hour to do the work. Obviously he told them no deal. A moving company would charge less and be insured.

These stories about illegals being taken advantage of is crap.

They won't work for little money.

And these 2 little anecdotes are public policy trends?

Come to NYC and see who is delivering the restaurant food on bicycles for $2 an hour in the snow and rain.

There are more legal protections BY FAR for the Central Park horses than there are for the bike delivery men.
 
And what percentage do you believe are actually paid using a fake SS#?

Estimates put the numebr around 50%

Most are not paid above the table, and are responsible for huge costs for hospitals and schools.

Actually false. Look at the links to the studies provided by cholla. Illegals are cheaper than legals overall.

The cost to the overall economy and decrease in standard of living due to the illegal aliens is enormous, they are a clear net loss for the US.

False
 
This paragraph makes zero sense. If you are a W2, then your income taxes are ALREADY withheld, it doesn't matter if you file a return.

And when a return is filed the taxes come back to the W2ed employee. That's why they are called "returns".


Further, more claimed dependents on W2 wages means less taxes taken out, so the illegals with 9 dependents claimed pay less in taxes.

Not when returns are factored in

And this claim does nothing to address that most illegals are NOT paid on the books, with large proportions of their wages sent out of the US.

The first part of this sentence is false. All of the facts indicate teh exact opposite. Perhaps some research on the subject would Alleviate your misunderstandings.

What they do with their wages after they've earned them would be no different if they were legal and it is nobody's business but their own.

I don't get why liberals are always so interested in controlling how people spend the money that they earn.
 
This paragraph also doesn't make sense since the medical costs of illegals' use of hospitals is far greater than the legals' use of general practitioners.

It only makes sense when one is not ignorant of the actual facts. I again implore you to look at the links provided by cholla. The study was performed by a group that is opposed to illegal immigrants, so you can pretty much trust that they aren't ****ing with the numbers that support my arguments.

But if you believe nonsense rhetoric instead of facts, the paragraph obviously won't make any sense.

Also, the medicare deduction is far larger than that for social security, so your other claim is also wrong.

And illegals aren't using medicare, they are using medicaid, which is funded differently.

So which claim of mine, specifically, is wrong?
 
Isn't the use of a stolen or fake SSN perjury and a felony? And 50% of illegals are using them. Damn, thats somewhere around 6 to 10 million potential felons in our country that are not supposed to be here. And people who defend these criminals claim that they are honest hard working people. Sounds to me like they belong in prison.
 
Isn't the use of a stolen or fake SSN perjury and a felony? And 50% of illegals are using them. Damn, thats somewhere around 6 to 10 million potential felons in our country that are not supposed to be here. And people who defend these criminals claim that they are honest hard working people. Sounds to me like they belong in prison.

How much would that cost to house 6-10 million prisoners? :shock:
 
Immigrant Families Leave Arizona, Fearing Law

Working like a charm, it looks to me.
 
Estimates put the numebr around 50%

"Estimates"? What good are they? There are between 12 and 20 million illegals, how useful is what is no better than a guess?

Actually false. Look at the links to the studies provided by cholla. Illegals are cheaper than legals overall.

The facts are better than whatever links - which may or may not be legit. Hospitals are closing all over the US due to illegals unable to pay their bills. My school system, the nation's largest, has a significant portion of undocumented, whose parents do not contribute to the taxes needed to pay for the school teachers, etc.


Ok, since you said so, I guess that's that :roll:
 
And when a return is filed the taxes come back to the W2ed employee. That's why they are called "returns".

Since it is clear you do not have an accounting background, all a return accomplishes is authenticate the numbers ALREADY PROVIDED to the IRS. There is no causal connection between a person sending in their returns and receiving a refund from the IRS. The return merely declares "offline" income, such as from stocks, bonds, real estate holdings etc, not reported directly to the IRS by one's employer.

Not when returns are factored in

As I noted, filing or not filing a return is meaningless, particularly since one would understand that most illegals are not swimming in IBM dividend income...

The first part of this sentence is false. All of the facts indicate teh exact opposite. Perhaps some research on the subject would Alleviate your misunderstandings.

What facts are those, such as that even using YOUR numbers, over half of illegals are paid off the books - and therefore, PAY ZERO income tax?

What they do with their wages after they've earned them would be no different if they were legal and it is nobody's business but their own.

Since no income tax is being paid on these wages, and a high proportion of them are being sent out of the country, thereby, no sales taxes either will be paid on their purchases, of course it is very relevent.

I don't get why liberals are always so interested in controlling how people spend the money that they earn.

Hilarious, I am as far from liberal as one can be...:roll:
 
It only makes sense when one is not ignorant of the actual facts.

This is getting boring. You keep accusing me of not knowing the "facts" as you place them, yet you use none in your posts... :spin:

I again implore you to look at the links provided by cholla. The study was performed by a group that is opposed to illegal immigrants, so you can pretty much trust that they aren't ****ing with the numbers that support my arguments.

My "research" on this topic is based upon 50 years of living in the US' largest city, and reading 12 newspapers daily. The "facts" as you present would have to take everything that the WSJ, NYT and every major study - including academic papers and common sense - and throw them right out the window. Sorry, but that just doesn't jive.

But if you believe nonsense rhetoric instead of facts, the paragraph obviously won't make any sense.

Zzzzzz....more fluff nonsense... :roll: :doh

And illegals aren't using medicare, they are using medicaid, which is funded differently.

Oh really, and the revenue that pays for medicaid doesn't come from taxes? You mean the federal government just magically pays for medicaid - along with the states - from thin air?
 
How much would that cost to house 6-10 million prisoners? :shock:

You'd probably end up having to set up some sort of internment camps, and end up pissing off Amnesty International big time. Not a practical solution, I agree.
 
charge employers 5,000 or two years in prison for every illegal that they knowingly hire, allow the law to be enforced by any law enforcement agency at the County, State, or Federal level, and then earmark 10% of that 5,000 for the agency that does the bust...


and no, they won't. ;)
 
charge employers 5,000 or two years in prison for every illegal that they knowingly hire, allow the law to be enforced by any law enforcement agency at the County, State, or Federal level, and then earmark 10% of that 5,000 for the agency that does the bust...


and no, they won't. ;)

Are you going to make the employers responsible for discerning real from fake IDs?
 
Are you going to make the employers responsible for discerning real from fake IDs?

Why not? Bouncers have to, and employers have the advantage over bouncers of having the time and connections to actually check out the information and ID given through federal databases to ensure it is real.
 
Why not? Bouncers have to, and employers have the advantage over bouncers of having the time and connections to actually check out the information and ID given through federal databases to ensure it is real.

No, bouncers are not legally required to discern fake IDs. They are required to check IDs.
 
No, bouncers are not legally required to discern fake IDs. They are required to check IDs.

No, but the bar can get fined if someone under 21 is in there drinking, even if they had a fake ID. You can bet that the bouncer would get fired if the ID card was obviously fake and the boss got fined because of the oversight. Especially at places like the club I went to in HA that made their bouncers have training in spotting fake IDs from any state.
 
No, but the bar can get fined if someone under 21 is in there drinking, even if they had a fake ID. You can bet that the bouncer would get fired if the ID card was obviously fake and the boss got fined because of the oversight. Especially at places like the club I went to in HA that made their bouncers have training in spotting fake IDs from any state.

It may vary from state to state. My state doesn't fine the bar as long as they card people. They regularly do stings to make sure people get carded.
 
They'll come back.

Yes they will, until we make it so there is not enough incentive. Then again, probably not going to happen, no matter how hard we make it here, as they cannot make a living in Mexico.
 
charge employers 5,000 or two years in prison for every illegal that they knowingly hire, allow the law to be enforced by any law enforcement agency at the County, State, or Federal level, and then earmark 10% of that 5,000 for the agency that does the bust...


and no, they won't. ;)[/QUOTE]

I was talking to an illegal that I know, who had been working here for over 10 years and then 2 years ago sold everything(2 houses and a 10 acre parcel in Cottonwood) pulled his kids out of school and moved back to Mexico. This guy hustles and works very hard to make money.

Now he is back here and says that there is no way to make money in Mexico unless you work for the cartels. He is an honest man and would not do that.

I think after they have been here for a while, the option of going back to Mexico and living at a subsistence level is not so attractive anymore.
 
"Estimates"? What good are they? There are between 12 and 20 million illegals, how useful is what is no better than a guess?

So in one breath you basically say estimates are useless, and then in the very next you use an estimate (and the far upper limits of the estimates as well.. presented as a fact no less). Sense of humor... you gots one. :lol:

Generally, from everything I've seen on the matter, the consensus view seems to be that there are around 11-12 million illegals in the country.

The 50% estimates I've seen are based on these estimates and the amount of "extra" money found in medicare and SS money.


They are often used in arguments against illegal aliens.


The facts are better than whatever links - which may or may not be legit. Hospitals are closing all over the US due to illegals unable to pay their bills. My school system, the nation's largest, has a significant portion of undocumented, whose parents do not contribute to the taxes needed to pay for the school teachers, etc.

The facts are present in the studies, which are found at the links to which I refer. What you keep repeating without sourcing is the rhetoric.



Ok, since you said so, I guess that's that

Seems to be your MO since you've yet to substantiate any of the things you've claimed.


Since it is clear you do not have an accounting background, all a return accomplishes is authenticate the numbers ALREADY PROVIDED to the IRS. There is no causal connection between a person sending in their returns and receiving a refund from the IRS. The return merely declares "offline" income, such as from stocks, bonds, real estate holdings etc, not reported directly to the IRS by one's employer.

True, I should have said "refund". My apologies.



As I noted, filing or not filing a return is meaningless, particularly since one would understand that most illegals are not swimming in IBM dividend income...

Yes, but most W2 employees making the same amount as the average illegal receives a refund of nearly all income tax paid.

The fact that they are low income is actually a huge part of my argument. Almost all of the money paid by the LEGAL W2 employees at comparable incomes gets refunded at the end of the year.

Almost none of the income taxes that do get paid by illegals gets refunded.

Thus, when taken as a whole, it's likely that illegals pay more income tax than comparable legal citizens (they do pay less into SS and Medicare, but they take almost none of these as well)


What facts are those, such as that even using YOUR numbers, over half of illegals are paid off the books - and therefore, PAY ZERO income tax?

Most people with the same level of income PAY ZERO income tax as well. Teh fact that ANY illegals are paying income tax, and not getting it refunded, means that as a whole, more income tax is paid by illegals than is paid by comparable legals.


Since no income tax is being paid on these wages, and a high proportion of them are being sent out of the country, thereby, no sales taxes either will be paid on their purchases, of course it is very relevent.

There is income tax being paid on these wages. The money that is sent abroad doesn't differentiate between what was sent by legals and what was sent by illegals, nor does it differentiate between those who use fake SS numbers and those who don't.

Hilarious, I am as far from liberal as one can be...:roll:

You'd be surprised at the amount of people who support an unconstitutional increase of federal authority regarding state residency laws and support the judicial activism that granted federal authority to the issue of residency in the first place, then.

If you are as far from liberal as one can be, then you clearly must agree with me that legal residency was not a federal power enumerated by the constitution. The full extent of federal authority granted by the constitution towards immigrants was that of creating universal naturalization laws. Residency was specifically left out of the constitution because it is only the state that has the right to decide who is a legal resident of said state.

Just as was explained by Jefferson in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.


This is getting boring. You keep accusing me of not knowing the "facts" as you place them, yet you use none in your posts... :spin:

I've been using sources provided by my opponents in this debate to in my arguments. One cannot say that I'm using biased sources.



My "research" on this topic is based upon 50 years of living in the US' largest city, and reading 12 newspapers daily. The "facts" as you present would have to take everything that the WSJ, NYT and every major study - including academic papers and common sense - and throw them right out the window. Sorry, but that just doesn't jive.

That'd be fine if it were true, but my statements are supported by the research as well as common sense. The links I have directed you to provide the evidence.

Your claims are completely unsubstantiated and they actually do fly in the face of the research AND the common sense.


Zzzzzz....more fluff nonsense... :roll: :doh

I take it you don't have anything that can prove my statement wrong, thus proving that all you have shared thus far really is mindless rhetoric.

Oh really, and the revenue that pays for medicaid doesn't come from taxes? You mean the federal government just magically pays for medicaid - along with the states - from thin air?

That's not even remotely close to what I've said, and it moves the goal posts form your original comment of:

Also, the medicare deduction is far larger than that for social security, so your other claim is also wrong.

Illegals who use fake SS numbers pay into medicare without having any access to medicare.

You could only have made the above statement about medicare if you were ignorant of the fact that they are funded in entirely different fashions since both SSS and Medicare receive major boosts form illegals that are never drawn from by those illegals.

Fact: Illegals cost less federal money on average than the average citizen does. This was shown in the study I keep directing you to, which is actually arguing against illegal immigrants (i.e. has a polar opposite view on illegals than I do).

I'm sticking with those data because it actually supports my argument about deporting natural born citizens who are low-income and low education and replacing them with illegals to save money.

It'll be cheaper in the long run to do this. It's the most obvious conclusion one could reach when one actually looks at ALL of the data (i.e. not just the cost of illegals, but making a true comparison of their costs to those of citizens who are comparable in skill and education level to illegals)

Why deport those who cost us less? They are undocumented and they keep coming back over and over again.

Instead we should deport the citizens who cost more than double what an illegal does. The bonus is that these people are clearly documented already AND since they managed to live in this country form birth without acquiring more skills and education than an illegal alien, they are probably too lazy and slow witted to successfully return once deported. I say send em over to Mexico. We'll take most of their hardest workers and they get our laziest ones in return.

The fact that illegals cost money is not an issue to me. I don't deny that.

What I'm saying is that they cost less than citizens at comparable levels of education and income. This should be simple common sense because citizens have more access to entitlements than illegals do.

Thus, the most expedient and economical approach is to replace our citizen underclass with an illegal non-citizen underclass.

I would support such legislation in my state.
 
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