If he was paid minmun wage he may have paid for taxes. But tell me what services he got. Did he get welfare? Illegal, I doubt it. He probly shared floor space and took a bus to work. Just because he was frugal we do not own his money. He earned it. He should keep it. I personally think the requirement to declare any amount over 10,000 a sign of a police state. I understand they watch for drug and now terrorism but still the amount I have in cash and plan to take home is not a free persons obligation to tell the state. However if I am not free then it is my obligation.
I see too much of automatic govt is right here on Free Republic. The government is the one entity that can take your life , property and freedom. That is why we fought to be free. However even the English back then had more freedom than this.
Just because he came here illegally does not give me the right to steal his money, nor does it give the state that right in my name.
If it's his money, he shouldn't have trouble proving it. There should be a paper trail of employment.
After all, all we have is his word that it's his. What if he's laundering cash to drugrunners in Central America?
Why didn't he wire it through Western Union? Carrying that much cash is dangerous. Even if he had no fear of US law, (for some reason?!), he still has banditos to worry about.
Maybe you don't like the law, but you either follow it or you break it. If you break it, you can get caught and suffer consequences.
Well said. A Venezuelan vice foreign minister or something was caught with $40,000 undeclared cash flying into Miami a couple years back and I think the US govt gave it all back to him. Why should Chavista thugs get their STOLEN cash back just because they have chavista ties, while truly poor people, seeking to go back to their home countries to create jobs for locals so they don't emigrate here, get the book thrown at them. This law isn't enforced evenly which is one good reason why it's a bad law. And cripe, no doggone chavista ought to ever be allowed here to shop in miami anyway!