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LULUAC
"Both the House and Senate have passed immigration bills. The House version, with Sensenbrenner as a main sponsor, focused on enforcement. A measure passed by the Senate would provide the opportunity for some illegal immigrants to gain legal status."
Complete mischaracterization of the Senate bill. Rove/Dem spin gaining hold I've seen this characterization grow.
"The League of United Latin American Citizens says it wants to hear from U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrennner on why he proposed a bill that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally and, among other things, build a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border."
So do I. I'd like to hear him explain why the wall shouldn't be 2000 miles long and 40 feet high.
EXCERPT: Some Immigrants Are Offering Social Security Numbers for Rent
NY Times | 6/7/2005 | EDUARDO PORTER
Gerardo Luviano is looking for somebody to rent his Social Security number. Mr. Luviano, 39, obtained legal residence in the United States almost 20 years ago. But these days, back in Mexico....he is looking for an illegal immigrant in the United States to use it for him - providing a little cash along the way. "My brother in California has a friend who has crops and has people that need one."
Mr. Luviano's pending transaction is merely a blip in a shadowy yet vibrant underground market....undetected by American authorities, operating below the radar in immigrant communities from coast to coast, a secondary trade in identities has emerged straddling both sides of the Mexico-United States border.
Illegal immigrant workers usually earn so little they are owed an income tax refund...........The illegal immigrant "working the number" will usually pay the real owner by sharing the tax refund. Since legal American residents can lose their green cards if they stay outside the country too long, it is useful to have somebody working under their identity north of the border.
"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.
The income tax "refund" is almost certainly generated by Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) fraud, which as a "legal resident" the number renter would qualify to receive, especially if they have have or claim children. The EITC is a "refundable tax credit, which means the IRS will pay it out even if no taxes have been withheld or paid in. So the IRS gives filers who claim the EITC "refunds," even if they have had no taxes withheld.
These number renters can claim up to $4,400 for the 2005 tax year in EITC "refunds," most of the number renters probably claim this maximum refund. The Additional Child Tax Credit is another "refundable" credit which is no doubt routinely claimed by these renters.
For 2005, if the number renter claimed $14,400 in wage income, and three children, between the EITC and the Additional Child Tax Credit the renter would, without having any taxes withheld from wages, receive a tax "refund" of $4,898, plus have $892 credited to Social Security; in addition to the potential of thousands of dollars in California unemployment compensation.
Interesting,
We agree on something.
But I doubt we'd agree on what should follow.
Congressman Sensenbrenner is an awesome man and is right in step with the majority of Americans on the issue of border control and illegal immigration. LULAC is a fringe radical socialistic group and nothing he would say there would make a different to anyone anyway. The fact that their group thinks it's wrong for those in this country illegally to be considered criminal shows how out of touch they are with reality, not to mention the American people. Sensenbrenner has it right.
Because it's our country and we get to make the rules!
If the mental defectives in Washington pass this amnesty, the REST of Mexico will be here. Our laws mean nothing when Mexico's slave labor is involved.
Guess it won't matter anyway, if Bush and his globalist buddies get their way and erase the borders via the CFR and the "North American Union". We're screwed either way.
I've never regretted a vote as much as my vote for GWB in 2000. He is not what he claimed to be.
Send ICE, and lots of paddy wagons, it sounds like a "target rich environment".
Sensenbrenner's "backyard" isn't Milwaukeestan. It's the suburban areas around it.
I am proud he is my congressman.
He should show up & explain the law - in English.