Drop the I-Word: I Am…Undocumented (You won't believe this!)

Color Lines ^ | March 15, 2011 | Mónica Novoa

[Tennessee Nana]

our country’s broken immigration system.
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Theres nothing wrong with the immigration system...

it works fine...

there is a serious problem with the illegal alien deportation system...

Thousands more need to be arrested, work off the cost of a bus ticket mending roads and infrastructure in prison garb and and deported every day...

[TigersEye]

Go home, aliens!

• Deport on contact with LE.
• Enforce the law strongly on employers of illegals.
• Strong border security. Build the physical fence and use high-tech surveillance.
• Eliminate entitlements for illegal aliens except for true emergency care.
• End the "anchor baby" policy.

[EternalVigilance]

instead, they were called “illegal.”

Okay. Let's make a deal. You go back to your own country, and we will not call you "illegal."

[TigersEye]

The derogatory term “illegal”...

It's a legal term, Ranjit. Your whiny victimhood mentality is the last thing we need in a free country. Leave you moocher!

[tacticalogic]

I am American by heart

Then you must understand the position you put us in. All around you are others who are here illegally, LaRaza and Reconquista, who are not "American by heart", but by their own admission Mexican. The want American citizenship so they can use the power of their votes to help destroy America, and they're using you as a "useful idiot".

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[Churchillspirit]

Worked OK for Obama.

[television is just wrong]

saw a report done this weekend. india nationals are traveling here on tourist visas and staying to work for a company called info sys????

American citizens need not apply.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Don’t they VERY RARELY make someone a Japanese citizen, such as successful foreign Sumo wrestlers and that ilk. But I mean rarely...

[MarkL]

You know, I think that I'm going to be an undocumented bank customer, and make an undocumented withdrawal. I mean, who would it hurt? The documented bank customers have deposits insured by the gubmint for quite a bit... And anyone who has more in the bank than that limit is evil rich, anyway...

I once called in to a talk show to "chat" with an illegal immigration supporter, and asked for her home address. I wanted to pitch a tent in her front yard, since I was going to be an "undocumented homeowner" there. For some reason she wasn't forthcoming with her address, and the host hung up on me for being "ridiculous."

Mark

[dalereed]

The only broken part of the system is enforcement by the government!!!

Every illegal alien including this clown should be deported immediatly!!!

[Liz]

The whole family should be deported----these invaders are a huge pain in the rear. By their very presence, illegals evince an utter contempt for America, Americans, and our sacrosanct rule of law.

These people want privileges ....not just rights. The US rule of law is what distinguishes America from Third world hellholes like Calcutta, Mumbai, Delhi, and Tijuana.

One comes in they the entire extended family sneaks in ---AND they then all get on the US gravy train, and suckup benefits from here to eternity.

RIDING THE US GRAVY TRAIN They pay no income tax, so each year, they can file an Income Tax Return to get "EITC---earned income credit" of up to $3,200 scot-free. They qualify for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent, food stamps and no deductible, no co-pay free health care. Children get free school breakfasts and lunches and kids qualify for monthly SSI checks, by faking ADD; the elders get SSI if they fake being aged, blind or disabled; SSI qualifies them for free Medicare. Plus they don't worry about pricey items like car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance, and qualify for relief from high energy bills.

ALL OF THAT IS COLLECTED WITH JUST ONE IDENTITY Evidence shows these people establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents (which they buy from document brokers for several thousand dollars).

REFERENCE Earned Income Tax Credit is available only to immigrant workers who obtain legal work status. But the law allows immigrants to claim EITC for up to three years prior to obtaining that status. Workers simply file a tax return for the years in which they were not legally eligible to work in the US. The most widespread abuse stems from the requirement that children live with the worker for more than six months of the year. IRS does little to verify the claim. Many immigrants claim non-existent children, or claim children who they’ve left behind with relatives. Those with two or more children and income below $32,121 could get as much as $4,008. It is estimated that illegals got $22 billion EITC last year alone.

We do not need, nor do we want on US soil, those who are all too willing to destroy Western civilization, and our democracy, for their own self-serving ends.

Calcutta

[Nea Wood]

We came here on a travel visa to visit my dad, but we ended up staying purposely, selfishly stayed on with an expired visa because it benefited us and because we don't give a d### for your country's laws.

There, fixed it.

[R. Scott]

We came here on a travel visa to visit my dad, but we ended up staying with an expired visa. After my visa expired, my family was classified as being “illegal.”

What would they expect? Overstaying a travel visa is illegal!

[wbill]

I’m not so pleased to see the future visa engineers taking US jobs either.

Me either, but I'm not going to move away from a neighborhood to escape from a bunch of gang-banging Biomedical Engineers.

Whereas at my old house, I had to get out. I lived in a mostly liberal, mostly "diverse", neighborhood. The Latin Kings moved into the the neighborhood, a few blocks over from me. There were other reasons at work (poor schools, crime), but I put my house on the market immediately, and moved away as soon as it sold. To heck with them, they all got what they asked for.

Interestingly enough, the local grand-high poobah of the Latin Kings actually *ran* for City Council in my old town. He didn't win, but just the fact that he managed to get on the ballot was a huge red flag that things were starting to fall apart, locally. I'm glad to be rid of the place.

Back to my original point, though - the propaganda that this article presented was interesting spin. In general, who *wouldn't* want a quiet, respectful, thoughtful, hard-working bio-med engineer living next to them? That thought puts a huge smiley face on an otherwise horrifically ugly problem - namely, the bulk of illegals are *not* the best and the brightest.