Originally posted by regular-guy
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And by the way, illegal immigrants do pay social security taxes and federal income taxes just like anyone else. They are subject to withholding just like everyone. They may provide a false social security number and thus not be able to reap the retirement benefits down the line, but you better believe they are paying in now. There are some, whether illegal or not, American citizen or immigrant, who mainly do cash work on odd jobs and can thus avoid the taxation system, but that's no way to support a family. The vast majority of illegal immigrants that I have known have ended up putting a lot of money into the federal tax system.
Moreover, mostly what I have seen when illegals have worked in a cash-only system, that it is used by their employers to extort and exploit them. Often they don't get the wages they have earned, or they are mistreated in other ways. Why doesn't that injustice bother you far more than the few cents on the dollar that they may be taking out of your pocket?
On the whole, I've seen illegal immigrants do far more than their fair share of shouldering the burden of society. It doesn't bother me to see them getting to use WIC to buy milk and bread for their family, and I frankly cannot comprehend how that would trouble anyone else, especially someone who claims to follow Jesus Christ, so much that they would want a national crusade to badger such people. It's so ****ing un-Christian it makes me very angry. And I'm not insinuating. I'm calling you out clear and plain.
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