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originally posted by: Night Star
I have some Native American ancestory and I will tell you that tribes warred against other tribes for land and food. It wasn't just the white man.
originally posted by: Night Star
a reply to: Jenisiz
And the "they take the money and return home" is a MASSIVE misconception
I'll be sure to tell that to all the illegals who have done just that. In my former place of employment, it was always a good topic of conversation. The illegals would say how much more our money is worth there and our mouths would hang open.
aclu.com
In addition to paying taxes and Social Security, immigrants spend money on goods and services in the United States. A study of Latino immigrants in California found significant gains in home ownership between those who had been in this country for ten years (16.4 percent are homeowners) and those who had been here for over thirty years (64.6 percent).38Furthermore, a 2002 Harvard University study of U.S. Census data found that there were more than 5.7 million foreign- born homeowners in the United States.39 The study found that foreign-born new homeowners are buying their homes by saving more than native-born homebuyers and stretching their incomes more.
According to the 2005 Economic Report of the President, "more than half of all undocumented immigrants are believed to be working ‘on the books'…[and]… contribute to the tax rolls but are ineligible for almost all Federal public assistance programs and most major Federal-state programs." According to the report, undocumented immigrants also "contribute money to public coffers by paying sales and property taxes (the latter are implicit in apartment rentals)."30
All immigrants (legal and undocumented) pay the same real estate taxes and the same sales and other consumption taxes as everyone else. The University of Illinois at Chicago found in 2002 that undocumented immigrants in the Chicago metro area spent $2.89 billion annually from their earnings and these expenditures generated $2.56 billion additional spending for the local economy.31
Legal immigrants pay income taxes and indeed many undocumented immigrants also pay income taxes or have taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks—even though they are unable to claim a tax refund, Social Security benefits or other welfare benefits that these taxes support. In the Chicago metro area for example, approximately seventy percent of undocumented workers paid payroll taxes, according to the University of Illinois study from 2002.32 In the Washington Metro Region, immigrants paid the same share of the region's overall taxes (18 percent) as the rest of the population (17.4 percent), according to a 2006 Urban Institute study.33 This study also points to the fact that immigrants' tax payments support both local and state services in addition to the federal government.
originally posted by: Night Star
Educate yourself on the negative impact of illegal immigration. It will be helpful for you to see the other side.
Illegals aren't taking jobs Americans will work.
Then the white man come for riches,
originally posted by: Night Star
a reply to: Jenisiz
Sadly, money will always matter more than human lives.
They've flooded
americas capability to provide a unionized and well trained work force
with inferior workers that will soon show the lack of quality in everthing
that used to be everywhere. You want to see what america is headed for?
You need only cross the border and drive around Tiajuana for a half hour.
And it has been done for the most part as nothing more than vindictive
payback to a work force that was smart enough to form those unions.
But you? You'll be alright. Till you enter a bank that cave's in on your
ass because the street cleaner was out front.
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Jenisiz
Your reading it written by someone who has experienced it first hand.
They've flooded
americas capability to provide a unionized and well trained work force
with inferior workers that will soon show the lack of quality in everthing
that used to be everywhere. You want to see what america is headed for?
You need only cross the border and drive around Tiajuana for a half hour.
And it has been done for the most part as nothing more than vindictive
payback to a work force that was smart enough to form those unions.
But you? You'll be alright. Till you enter a bank that cave's in on your
ass because the street cleaner was out front.
So I'm all the proof you need, to know of your ignorance.
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Jenisiz
What makes you think I'm not home?
.not opinions Cuz they're like as5holes, everyone has em and they all stink.
I'm actually surprised you even have that clearly in mind.
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Jenisiz
ignorance is a resource
Illegals are here to stay,
Misgiven thoughts such as these are why I stopped taking you
seriously back on the previous page. But you can tell us about
your degree again.
originally posted by: Jenisiz
Business models for what you suggest would decimate the economy. Large corporations would still continue to outsource and even smaller companies would as well as the wages for Americans would increase. Gas and the general cost of living would sky rocket as I know of not one single living citizen willing to work for 20 bux a day picking strawberries. To employ citizens would require a massive increase in produce and goods manufactured locally which would only encourage importing and outsourcing. What you're suggesting is the common 1 year plan. Looks good short term...but once current inventory levels have been depleted, we're up sh1t Creek with no paddles.
originally posted by: danielsil18
Get in a hit and run, cause numerous traffic violations, don't register your smoke spewing car; just let the officer know you are illegal with no license and drive away unpunished.
That's an outright lie. Officers don't let anyone drive away if they don't have a license.
Where did you get that lie?