Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1774576)

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1774578)

Originally Posted by anothersteve (Post 1774593)

There are people that really have a hard time with the terms legal and illegal. Excuse the expression, but it's black and white.

Steve

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1774578)

Originally Posted by GoodLife (Post 1774509)

Every year about a million immigrants are admitted to America legally. We get more immigrants than any country on Earth. Not easy, lots of paperwork, costs money, millions are denied. Estimates of illegal immigrants in the country are 10-12 million, lots of them are minorities. They'll brave deserts, walk over mountains, swim rivers, die of thirst and starvation, and pay thousands of dollars to their guides. If they get caught and deported, they do it all over again and again.

What the heck are they thinking? I see people on this forum telling us how racist this country is, how "systemic oppression" grinds minorities to dust and despair, and our economic system is designed to crush the weak. Plus our police are racists brutes who like to beat people up.

I can only conclude that all the immigrants that keep coming here are complete idiots, or masochists, probably both.

Originally Posted by Dgizzi (Post 1774624)

Well said...paperwork? What paperwork is being done since all of them come here illegally. They don’t want to do paperwork cause then they have to pay taxes

Originally Posted by GoodLife (Post 1774568)

PS love ur new tagline, hilarious!

Originally Posted by GoodLife (Post 1774626)

About a million immigrants are admitted every year legally, with paperwork. Millions more get denied for one reason or another. Millions more come every year illegally.

One thing we know for sure, lots and lots of people from all over the world want to come and live in America.

Originally Posted by anothersteve (Post 1774632)

Thanks, I just need to work on all those fancy colors available.
Steve

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1774648)

And millions of those here illegally have fake social security cards, and get legitimate jobs and pay actual real federal income taxes, and social security tax, and medicare tax, and in some cases, state and local income tax as well.

Why do they come? Because they are FROM countries that are even worse than we are. That doesn't make us any good at all. It just means we're not as bad as Venezuela, Panama, parts of Mexico, Columbia, the rest of South America, or Syria or other parts of the world that are war-torn.

America isn't great. It's merely "not as bad" as many other places.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1774648)

And millions of those here illegally have fake social security cards, and get legitimate jobs and pay actual real federal income taxes, and social security tax, and medicare tax, and in some cases, state and local income tax as well.

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI (Post 1774655)

My wife worked for a large mall management company in their payroll department. The illegals that worked for them knew that if they claimed the max number of dependents that there would be no taxes taken from their paycheck. They paid no federal income tax. I imagine that state and local taxes work the same way. A whole lot of the illegals get paid under the table so no tax is paid by them.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1774663)

Also, people are not illegal. Their actions are legal or illegal - but the people themselves are not illegal. They really are actual people. Their existence as "people" is 100% legitimate.

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1774578)