Controversy over immigration raid grows

There are plenty of unemployed people. You are darn right about that. One of the many facets of the unemployment issue is the mis-match between the unemployed and the available jobs as well as the issue of pay.

An unemployed web developer is not going to go clean toilets. No one can blame them, nevertheless, toilets still need to be cleaned, lawns mowed etc. etc.

Many unemployed highly qualified people in their fields tragically can’t find jobs matching the kind of income they expect for the skills they have and the skills needed for the particular business. That’s how civil engineers with 25 years of experience are unemployed while a recent graduate of a civil engineering program will be inundated with offers. Companies would rather reduce their overhead to maximise profits by paying lower salaries. I heard they call that capitalism and someone mentioned the principle of offer and demand….Top Republican (anti-immigrant) sacred cows. What does have to do with illegal immigration?

How are illegals not paying taxes? About 85% of them earn a paycheck, from a business that employs them. I yet have to see a paycheck without state and federal income tax deductions. When an illegal buys something in a store, I have never seen that :”undocumented sales tax exempt” special cash register line. When illegals rent an apartment, part of their rent goes to local taxes doesn’t it? Just like for anyone else. If they buy a house, again, I have never seen that particular exemptions for illegals to pay their property tax. The IRS will even issue illegals a “Individual Taxpayer Identification Number” ITIN for them to file their taxes with. Which many do, as they too like to receive their tax refund check. I guess the only ones escaping income tax, are the ones who are paid cash, but in that case I ask you, who is the criminal? The one who accepts compensation for their work, or the one who circumvents the law by paying them under the table?

You’ll say, but they consume more services than they pay for etc. etc. I agree, especially because of healthcare costs. Well, think a little bit. Why to they use emergency rooms as their primary healthcare provider?? Because their employers refuse to provide them with health insurance. So in fact, the employer who attracted them to this country in the first place, is being subsidised by our tax dollars by pushing their employees to use emergency rooms as a primary doctor.

Did you even comprehend the article? Especially the part where it is explained that they pay OUT OF STATE tuition rates??? Just like those legal residents who do not pay taxes in the state in question? Where is the extra cost you are talking about? Use common sense, and logic not fallacious blind ideology.

” they are attending colleges as suggested in the article they are looking for jobs other than those you mentioned”

I grant you that, and that’s a problem HOW? I’d rather they be in school, paying out of state tuition, than end up in immigration detention which costs the US taxpayer $20,000.00 a year per detainee, without figuring the cost of law enforcement, prosecution and trial at the federal level Did you know that a majority of immigration detainees are held in private prisons? Paid with YOUR tax dollars? Did you know that the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law was WRITTEN and LOBBIED for by…the Geo Corporation of America, a leading provider of private immigration detention and monitoring in the US?

Do you really think that chasing illegals on college campuses is a good use of our tax dollars versus looking for criminal aliens? I am a local law enforcement officer, and I have sought many times the help of ICE to issue a detainer on a suspect in custody only to be told that they had no manpower to come down to our jail and take care of it or that the suspect wasn’t important enough to warrant that, well, if I can’t come up with charges, we have to let them go within 72 hours pursuant to the Constitution I am sworn to uphold. Recently in my jurisdiction, a murder suspect was released from jail because charges against him did no stick.
The case was weak, as no witnesses to his crime would come forward, mainly due to their fear of police and being deported, compounded by the lack of physical evidence, he was released. The suspect had been deported in 2007 and re-entered the U.S. Boy would I have wished that instead of messing with college students they would have come for this guy!

I really don’t see what would be wrong with the following:

Allow people who pay a fine for entering illegally, just like you pay a fine for similarly classified crimes, learn english, have a clean criminal record and have a JOB to become legal residents and apply for citizenship after 5 years. The burden of punishment should be shifted from the guy trying to make a living to feed his family and staying out of trouble to the employer who is employing illegal aliens. Instead of weak civil fines, employers should be subject to criminal charges and penitentiary time. The employment of illegals would come to a screeching halt. But you see, businesses contribute to political campaings and their owners vote. Illegals contribute no money to campaings and can’t vote, therefore, they are the ideal patsy.

Jobs is mostly what attract illegals. Not much else. Illegal entries at the border have diminished by close to 50% since the economy has been swirling at the bottom of the world toilet. Any border patrol agent will tell, you that it’s not a coincidence.

Stop being blinded by sleazy politician rethoric, hatred and ignorance. Open your EYES and THINK.