I certainly don't mind immigrants, and I have tried to learn some Spanish so that when I am in the nursing home I will have someone to talk to. Slowly, I have come to the position where I think letting those that are here register and progress toward citizenship quickly might be alright. Where illegal immigrants work, presumably no income taxes or social security are deducted, so we are losing megabucks as a nation because of it. Their pay can be easily 25% lower than a citizen's and still equal or beat the citizen's take-home pay. Much of their income is sent back to Mexico, whereas a citizen might spend it here; and Mexico gets to duck its own economic development problems to some extent by exploiting its own poor and needy in virtually offering them no alternative to illegally crossing the border and finding employment up here. I have come to suppose that if we can identify the illegals and their employers and collect from them what a citizen would pay, they won't displace as many of our own citizens in jobs which don't pay spectacularly, while we will collect from their employers the social security payments they always should have been paying, and maybe some penalties of consequence, and this perhaps might make working cheaply in the U.S. less attractive than heretofore once the field has been levelled vis-a-vis the illegals immigrants and the underclasses of our own citizens who can not make it on the take-home they get, versus the illegal who pays no tax, no social security, and whose employer pays no social security match nor any benefits whatsoever. Meanwhile, aggressively go after employers who are not collecting social security, income tax, or paying their social security match and the federal deficit and the illegal immigration problems will both largely disappear!
I think the illegals are paying taxes, they have deductions from their paychecks, they just use false SS #s, and probably get returns even. If what I said is true, they could be eligible for EIC, and take out considerably more than the pay, like a lot of lower income families with kids. To fix the tax problem, they need to demolish the income tax, and go to the FAIR tax. I know a lot of people don't like it, but it could be very fair for the poor and rich alike.