There better be amnesty this next term. Thats all I have to say.
There better be amnesty this next term. Thats all I have to say.
I agree. That'll save the Country a lot of money and sweat.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
Yeah, fixing the problem is too costly so let's just absorb it into the system.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
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Don't really see a problem if everyone can coexist and work together, with no illegal issues getting in the way.Originally Posted by Ran
Sure, that works great in Candyland. If things were that easy around the world, I probably wouldn't be here. Things don't work that way though.Originally Posted by meepnork
I'm quite aware that things don't easily and smoothly fall into place. The amnesty that took place around the mid - late '80's early '90's really did help out though. And I honestly don't see any reason why we shouldn't have another one, come 2009.Originally Posted by Ran
Everyone think that illegals are ppl who crossed over a desert and took over jobs. There is more to it then that. There are TONS of people who were brought over as kids (no choice when your 5) illegally grow up here liek an american and get the boot when they turn 18. Others whose parents had working visas which the government just renews for the working parent while the kids have visas to just stay (not work) in the US (my situation) and when you turn 21 you get a kind letter from the Gov that says you have 3 weeks to GTFO. So you either have to uproot yourself and go back to that place on your birth certificate. Or take your chances living the illegal life. I took my chances and lived that way for 3 years. Its not easy. I have a student visa not and went back to school. Still not allowed to work legally. I have been here since 1993. Anyone want to tell me I'm not qualified to stay? Learned your language, laws, and "culture" I am not saying border patrol shoudl be handing out greencards in the desert. I'm just saying there is something that needs to be done because your country is kicking out ppl they paid their education for through publix school and then turning around and letting ppl from 3rd world countries in on green card lotteries. There is more to illegals then what you ppl think.Originally Posted by Ran
Tough luck. They can blame their illegal parents and take them back too.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
Then the kid (now adult) should apply for citizenship and start the process. If not, tough luck. If I go to S.Korea on a work Visa, that doesn't automatically grant my kids citizenship. When they become adults, they'll be responsible for their process as well.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
Are you a legal citizen? Do you have a work visa? If no, then you need to GTFO. If yes, then enjoy your stay.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
I don't agree with the green card lottery either, but that's one legal way they're doing it. Does it need to be changed? Yes, but that doesn't change how we need to deal with illegals that are here in the meantime.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
This is a very lame and closed minded opinion and does not help or change anythingOriginally Posted by Ran
There is no such thing as a "citizen process" from an illegal status. Please inform yourself before giving info because this is not correct. Nice to see that you woudl drag your kids somewhere and riase then in a place where you coudl give them a better life just so that when they are grown you tell them "well, I'm here. you can't stay. You've never been to your "homeland" but figure out on your own."Originally Posted by Ran
I am currently legal here. I consider the US home. It where I spent most of my life.Originally Posted by Ran
Woudl you like to explain to me how your roots immigrated here. Cuz I KNOW your roots don't go back to the English settlers that formed this country.Originally Posted by Ran
For someone who obviously had to have immigrated here somewhere in your family history. You are very close minded. You had to choice but to grow up here. You think you can hack it if you got thrown back to your roots??
I'm hispanic and can relate to a lot of what you're saying. But Ran did make 'some' good points. I for one, think that all the current illegals should get deported - sounds mean, but that's how it should be. If they contribute to this nation then they have no reason to stay. Atleast, that's how I see it.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
I'll gladly let you know that my father's family migrated over here LEGALLY prior to the Civil War. The system back then was lot easier, but they abided by it none-the-less. My mother was brought over by my father in the late 70's, went through the process, and is now a LEGAL citizen.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
You're obviously losing your argument because you, as an illegal I assume, have no real leg to stand on. I'm not close minded, but I'm well aware that there is a system that needs to be followed. Does it always work? No, but it's the only one we got and anyone who fails to abide by it deserves what they get.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
The federal government has nothing (and should have nothing) to do with what amounts to a local problem of resident aliens owning property and paying property tax on it that is used for public education. In all seriousness, the way provisions are set up, there is no guarantee of a public education for resident aliens who are not citizens. Conversely there is no truancy requirement laws in those jurisdictions whose laws do not guarantee a public education for resident aliens for those same people. In other words, nowhere FORCES you to go to school if you're not a citizen that doesn't GUARANTEE you a chance to go to school if you're not a citizen. I don't want to hear about resident aliens tax situation though, because it's alot more complicated than people want to make it out to be. It's also not the problem with the current tax system.Originally Posted by Red_Phoenix
The problem is that most of the migrant worker illegal aliens have NOT learned our language, do NOT care for our culture and do NOT want to become a coexistent part of society. They are here as symbiotes who feed off of our system, providing cheap labor in return for untaxed dollars that can be funneled into the central/south american country of their origin. All the while they claim to have no income and recieve as many government handouts as they can manage to qualify for. The number of "unemployed" mexican-american "work visa" holders in COBB COUNTY alone who are recieving unemployment and have been busted for working out of the parking lot of a home depot in this year is proof of that. Nobody ever said that because the migrant worker illegal aliens refused to speak english that they were stupid because it was true. They're racists. The hispanic migrant worker has figured out that the american government will cater to their needs if they cry for help all the while they hold a steady $6-$7 an hour job (60-70 Pesos an hour at current rates) that they send straight back to Mexico. These Migrant workers aren't working for any big business. They aren't working for a corporation who has to worry about filing paperwork on them. They're working for contractors who use them as contracted day laborers. It's on the worker to claim their income to the IRS, and it becomes almost on the honor system that these workers claim anything, since the only "contract" that is used is a verbal agreement and cash-in-hand at the end of the day. Those are the people who are creating problems for the mandatory-admission emergency medical care community who are doing births for now-american-citizen anchors but are never recieving any kind of compensation because the parents disappear into the breeze without any kind of Social Security number to even track.
People in YOUR situation need a VIABLE WAY TO BECOME AMERICAN CITIZENS. The Migrant Workers in this country DO NOT EVER WANT TO BE AMERICAN. They want to make money here, send it home so they have a good life, save all that money, and eventually go home to live it big. They are living their version of the American dream, and with the CURRENT system they create huge problems.
All of this goes away if you do away with the Income Tax, Social Security, and all the government oversight that comes with massive hand-out systems funded by tracked income systems. Switching to a different form of income collection based on something easier to track and enforce (Such as, for example, a retail sales tax collected by the retail point of sale system, or a tax on a government controlled neccessary good, like the Stamp Tax the british implemented here that helped to start the revolution) means that the Migrant Workers who are behaving the exact same way they are now, suddenly become legal workers who nobody has any problem with. Every american can do what they're doing and not worry about being arrested or facing massive fines from the IRS for tax evasion. The problem isn't the Migrant workers who have figured out how to game the system. The problem is the system that allows people to game it at all. All the supports of Obama want to see government in charge of healthcare, something that is and should always be the responsibility of those who want to stay healthy, and yet they have NO ANSWERS as to how to make the government ACTUALLY DO WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB. That is to enforce the laws that are on the books.
We don't LIVE in a Democracy. We live in a Representative Republic based on the RULE OF LAW. If 51% of the people in a democracy wanted to see every black person put back in slavery, then that becomes what the country's laws are. Instead America is not based on mob-rule, something the Founding Fathers figured out was exactly as dangerous as the people who fought the revolution for them.
Edit: A note about the wages, for some perspective. A 10 hour day in America at $6 an hour amounts to over 600 Pesos. The average daily wage in Mexico, according to their own government, is around 200 Pesos. This means that in a six day week, a migrant worker can work a whole month's average wage, and still have Sunday to be a good Catholic. In 10 years of being in America at the pitiful price of $6 an hour, a Migrant Worker could make a whole LIFETIME'S pay in Mexico. When you talk about other central-american countries like Nicaragua or Panama, the situation looks even better for Migrant Workers. These people aren't stupid, they are economic geniuses. I wish there were Jobs in England right now, I'd be hopping a merchant marine boat to try and earn some dough now. Of course another way to end the Migrant Worker phenomenon is to crush our currency into smithereens the same way the Japanese did, and turn our economy into an export economy. Then we'd have a rock-solid economic powerhouse that took a blow bigger than what caused the great depression in America and still stand. Not that long ago their stock market crashed far worse than ours ever did, and yet their economy essentially "Couldn't get any worse" and they bounced right back up from it to where they are now.
Last edited by Kaiser; 09-03-2008 at 11:24 AM.
Originally Posted by Kaiser
i like you we should hang out an grab a beer
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Why? Just because I think being a good american means understanding how the government is supposed to work and being upset at idiots who want to abuse government for their own personal benefit at others expense? Cool!Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
Glad someone finally likes me for that. We should go have some beers, especially if you end up moving somewhere near Kennesaw, there's plenty of good places.
At the end of the day, you can't contain it. It's like a zombie outbreak. They'll break the barriers eventually.Originally Posted by Kaiser
There are more of us thinking like that than you'd think. Granted I don't have quite the extensive knowledge as Mike and others, but I still support your stance.Originally Posted by Kaiser
I lol'd @ the thought of illegal mexican zombies.Originally Posted by meepnork
Mexican Zombie: "Braaaaains~"
American Joe: "Are you a legally registered brain muncher?"
Mexican Zombie: "Nooooo~"
American Joe: "Then I'm sorry, but you'll have to lea-what are you doing?! ARGHHHH~!"
/threadjack
Im in kennesaw now son!Originally Posted by Kaiser
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Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
stop lie'n Mike
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Actually there are laws. And how you are as a student affects yoru status.Originally Posted by Kaiser
If you only knew how much in taxes resident aliens pay. It rediculousOriginally Posted by Kaiser
I will not disagree with you here....complately. Hence why I said there should be an amnesty but also a regulated one. I have 18 other illegals who work under dead ppls social securiy numbers. They pay taxes and stand on their own 2 feet without any benifits. I've run this place for a while and I have 1 rule for working here and that you have 1 year to learn english basics or your out. I have not had to get rid of a single person yet. They go in rotation to gwinett tech for classes (free). I know you were concentrating on the hispanic culture which in general has a rep for mooching and then sending it off to their homeland. However there are some like the ones I work with who came here in persuit of the american dream with no intentions of leave and I think they shoudl be giving a chance.Originally Posted by Kaiser
Thanks to the ever changing laws immigration is a *****. my family was lined up to start the green card process 4 times then the law changed every time and we had to start over. Since 9/11 this has proven impossibleOriginally Posted by Kaiser
The government does need to step up and take care of business. I don't htink its doing half of what it should.Originally Posted by Kaiser
To everyone who is upset about workers using dead ppls socials to work. Well If it weren't for all those illegals working under those numbers GA would not have the nicely paved roads it does (go drive in another state liek KY or MI if you don't think so) since the dep. of transportation gets soooo much money from the tax dollars of "dead ppl"
Best post ever. Congrats for having a fully functioning brain unlike the masses. Major, Major Props.Originally Posted by Kaiser
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