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That's the idea. Not just wages, but taxes, too.

Given the choice, farmers and hotel owners will either do things the right way or dump their illegal alien employees.

It was originally called, the "Bracero Program."

Started in 1942 and ended in 1964.

In 1952, the H-2 visa was created which allowed for foreign-born, temporary agricultural workers to be employed by US farmers. This essentially replaced the Bracero Program.

I understand where he’s coming from, but how do they pay taxes without a legitimate social security number?

An illegal alien can legitimately pay taxes using the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. (ITIN)

The tricky part about Trump's proposal is that the illegal aliens must pay into the system and this must go through the employer.

If the employer is paying the illegal alien under the table and/or the illegal alien does not have an ITIN and is not paying taxes, it's "¡Adios, amigo!"

And, as an American citizen in good standing, I'm sure Colin, a fifth-generation Angeleno of Chinese descent, is making sure to declare the wages he pays his nanny and also makes sure to deduct the applicable federal, state income taxes, FICA and Medicare taxes.

Right?

In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism.

It was Sept. 16, 1989, and Yeltsin, then newly-elected to the new Soviet parliament and the Supreme Soviet, had just visited Johnson Space Center.

At JSC, Yeltsin visited mission control and a mock-up of a space station. According to Houston Chronicle reporter Stefanie Asin, it wasn't all the screens, dials, and wonder at NASA that blew up his skirt, it was the unscheduled trip inside a nearby Randall's location.

Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement," wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."

Shoppers and employees stopped him to shake his hand and say hello. In 1989, not everyone was carrying a smart phone in their pocket so Yeltsin "selfies" weren't a thing yet.

Yeltsin asked customers about what they were buying and how much it cost, later asking the store manager if one needed a special education to manage a store. In the Chronicle photos, you can see him marveling at the produce section, the fresh fish market, and the checkout counter. He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops.

"Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev," he said. When he was told through his interpreter that there were thousands of items in the store for sale he didn't believe it. He had even thought that the store was staged, a show for him. Little did he know there countless stores just like it all over the country, some with even more things than the Randall's he visited.

The fact that stores like these were on nearly every street corner in America amazed him. They even offered him free cheese samples.

By contrast, this is what a Russian grocery store looked like at the same time. (See: USSR: Moscow 1989 Grocery Store [YT])

According to Asin, Yeltsin didn't leave empty-handed, as he was given a small bag of goodies to enjoy on the rest of his trip.

About a year after the Russian leader left office, a Yeltsin biographer later wrote that on the plane ride to Yeltsin's next destination, Miami, he was despondent. He couldn't stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.

In Yeltsin's own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall's, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits. Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia.

Maybe you can blame those frozen Jell-O Pudding pops he's seen marveling in those Chronicle photos.

"When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people," Yeltsin wrote. "That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it."

The leader himself stepped down on the last day of 1999 after years of trying to bring a new system to Russia. The cronyism in place only managed to stifle Yeltsin's dream for his country. Corruption and perceived incompetence plague his final years in office. Leaving the Kremlin voluntarily is said to have kept him from criminal prosecution.

Which are called, 'remittances.'

“There is hereby imposed on any remittance transfer a tax equal to 1 percent of the amount of such transfer,” the latest version of the Act says. “The tax imposed by this section with respect to any remittance transfer shall be paid by the sender with respect to such transfer.”

However, the latest draft also inserts additional paragraphs to the section on the tax on remittances.

“The tax imposed under subsection (a) shall apply only to any remittance transfer for which the sender provides cash, a money order, a cashier’s check, or any other similar physical instrument (as determined by the Secretary) to the remittance transfer provider,” the draft Bill said.

I see. Perhaps you'll explain exactly what a remittance is.

The vast majority of remittances are made by Mexican illegal aliens who opened their 'legal' bank accounts using the Matricula Consular card.

The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 made this possible by changing US banking laws to allow the untraceable Mexican ID and ITIN to be used to open US bank accounts, issue US debit and credit cards, to apply for and receive home, business and auto loans.

For all the details, see my FR Home Page.

Note that no Mexican bank will allow their own government's Matricula Consular card to be used as ID to open a bank account. Thanks to George W. Bush, almost all US banks allow it. The bait was to allow US banks to receive CRA credit for 'helping' the Mexican illegal alien market enter the US banking system.

GW Bush would disagree with your assessment.

For more details, see my post #22 or for a lot of details visit my FR home page.

The economic policies instilled by President George W. Bush continues unabated.

In June 2004, the FDIC released a report detailing the goals and the progress to date, of the Partnership for Prosperity Agreement (with Mexico)

Doing things right means obtaining a green card before crossing the border, not after living here illegally for 25 years.

This is why you never, ever try to avoid hitting a small animal in your way, be it in a car or airplane.

On a three-leaf clover, which leaf appears first?

That small, still voice inside your head that some call your conscience? That's the Holy Ghost.

I'll bet the freeways are flowing pretty freely, too. LOL!

There are many Christians in Iran who do not hold with what their government is doing and are the ones being held hostage by their government.

Muslims call themselves "Iranian." Christians call themselves "Persian."

Did their policies and goals WRT the destruction of Israel change with the new guy? If not, why not?

The company's president said...

Anyone can say anything. What else would the company's president say? "We knowingly hired illegal aliens and paid them under the table."

I wonder if said president offered proof that the illegal aliens had been approved through E-Verify, offered proof of the illegal aliens' ITIN or SSN and that US income taxes had been taken out of the illegal aliens' wages.

Employer monetary sanctions in 3... 2... 1...

Nah! Just kidding.