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But Mr. Luviano is itching to do it again anyway. He knows that Social Security could provide retirement income down the line. And there's always the tax refund.
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Working with a name linked to a number recognized by Social Security - even if it is just borrowed or leased - avoids these pitfalls. "It's the safest way,"said Mario Avalos, a Stockton accountant who every year does tax returns for dozens of illegal immigrants. "If you are going to work in a company with strict requirements, you know they won't let you in without good papers." Illegal immigrant workers usually earn so little they are owed an income tax refund at the end of the year. The illegal immigrant "working the number"will usually pay the real owner by sharing the tax refund "Sometimes the one who is working doesn't mind giving all the refund, he just wants to work,"said Fernando Rosales, who runs a shop preparing income taxes in the immigrant-rich enclave of Huntington Park, Calif. "But others don't, and sometimes they fight over it. We see that all the time. It's the talk of the place during income tax time." They are filing false income tax returns. There might be small refunds if too much has been taken out, but if they make so little that they won't owe income tax, they can claim an exemption from withholding. What is really going on here (I have no doubt) is Earned Income Tax Credit fraud, which will net them thousands of dollars. While the "qualifying child" (or two qualifying children to max out the EITC refund) also need valid SS#s, that might not be a problem for number-lender, who may have his own children born in the US, or know people with Hispanic names who will "lend" him their children with SS#s. The local Spanish-surnamed tax preparers are obviously in on the scam. Does the IRS care about any of this? |
The only thing consistant in the Illegal Alien community is that they ALWAYS find a way to commit even MORE crime. Federal laws be damned.
The immigrant invasion has degraded the glories of US democracy, and exploited our freedoms for fraudulent personal gain.
The New York Review of Books
November 16, 2000
The Russians Are Coming!
Review By RAYMOND BONNER
[DJ: Footnotes not included.]
Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America
by Robert I. Friedman
296 pages, $25.95 (hardcover)
published by Little, Brown
Robert Friedman's book is the first to describe in detail the Russian mobsters who have established criminal enterprises throughout the world. His prose sometimes makes it sound like a sequel to Pulp Fiction. A Russian killer in Brooklyn murders a boy, he writes, "by picking him up like a ragdoll with one hand and plunging a knife into his heart with the other." But more than any other reporter he reveals how sophisticated, ruthless, rich, and multinational Russian criminals have become.
Among other things, he writes, they have arranged the sale of military helicopters and a submarine for the Colombia drug barons, and they have acquired influence over the American National Hockey League by threatening players from Eastern Europe and Russia and extorting money from them. They have infiltrated the international financial system, rigging share prices and buying banks in Hungary, Israel, and California. Now they are expanding into Nigeria, South Africa, and Australia.