I don't begrudge H1Bs at my work that they want to come to America and make a better life for themselves.
What does this have to do with Jose?
I don't begrudge H1Bs at my work that they want to come to America and make a better life for themselves.
What prevents Joe Legal from getting paid under the table and living the good life like his illegal friend?
If you're white and do it you're a criminal and you go to jail. If you're brown then you're a hard working immigrant who only wants a better life and you're untouchable.
If you're white and do it you're a criminal and you go to jail. If you're brown then you're a hard working immigrant who only wants a better life and you're untouchable.
The basic gist is accurate. Illegal immigration is a shift of wealth from natives to illegals. Illegals at best pay sales tax and have some social security / medicare withheld. Given that they don't make that much they pay around $1000 a year in taxes which is nothing when you consider one of their children costs $7,000 per year to educate at minimum. The middle-class really gets fucked on this one.
And then people like eskimospy wonder how people can vote against safety nets. Middle-class people would rather not shift their wealth to other people, especially when said people are illegals.
The amount that state and local governments spend on services for unauthorized immigrants represents a small percentage of the total amount spent by those governments to provide such services to residents in their jurisdictions.
Although it is difficult to obtain precise estimates of the net impact of
the unauthorized population on state and local budgets (see Box 1), that impact is most likely modest.
The basic gist is accurate. Illegal immigration is a shift of wealth from natives to illegals. Illegals at best pay sales tax and have some social security / medicare withheld. Given that they don't make that much they pay around $1000 a year in taxes which is nothing when you consider one of their children costs $7,000 per year to educate at minimum. The middle-class really gets fucked on this one.
And then people like eskimospy wonder how people can vote against safety nets. Middle-class people would rather not shift their wealth to other people, especially when said people are illegals.
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8711/12-6-Immigration.pdf
Good reading on the impact of illegal immigration on federal, state, and local government. The most relevant quotes to you are probably these:
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This is a far cry from 'the middle class really gets fucked'. If you are voting against social safety nets due to this reason, your vote is foolish.
Federal safety nets are not extended to illegals IIRC. Yet the same people oppose the safety nets at the federal level. Safety nets are opposed for ideological reasons. The fact that some states extend safety nets, or portions of them, to illegals just gives them another excuse to criticize something they would oppose anyway.
I already rejected that ridiculously shallow analysis in another thread. http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32043377&postcount=28
That's a very poor rejection with no actual attempt to offer competing evidence. The paper is well footnoted with links to scientific and academic research on the subject to support its assertions. It's just telling you things that your gut says are wrong.
Poor white trash breeders who live off welfare are bigger leaches than undocumented/illegal aliens. Let me tell you, there are more poor white trash breeders in the US than illegal aliens.
At least illegals give a hard days work.
Way to bring race into this... By the way none of the demographic trends suggest what you say is true.
You brought race into by using the term anchor babies.
"Anchor baby" has nothing to do with race.
Bullshit and you know it.
Anchor baby is a derogatory phrase to describe illegal aliens crossing the border and having a baby. So yes it does have everything to do with race, because last I checked there aren't to many white canadians rushing across the US to have american citizens.
You are a blatant troll if you believe race has nothing to do with the term anchor baby.
Simple question: If the illegals/"undocumented" were where they were supposed to be when their baby was born, that is, in the country they're legally a part of (not the one they happen to drop the baby in), would these kids be a.) US citizens or b.) non-US citizens?
Spent the last decade in Southern California, now I live in NYC. Two of the largest illegal immigrant areas in the US.
The answer to the question is either my a or b listed. Which one is it? Don't deflect, just answer the simple question...pick a or b, that's all you need to do.
