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Anonymous
Would anyone care if I reported my rich Potomac (MD) neighbors who have an illegal slave lady? |
Anonymous
I'm confused; please explain further. |
Anonymous
by all means; slavery is criminal. long sentences for that |
Anonymous
What would the process look like? |
Anonymous
I would report that person, and hopefully, she will look into hiring someone from here in the future. |
Anonymous
I agree that the distinction between civil and criminal offenses is an important one. I do not think undocumented immigrants should be deported for speeding, or having an unpaid parking ticket. I'm not a lawyer, but I think felonies are divided into classes, with the violent crimes being in a class to themselves. Those convicted of class-whatever felonies should not be incarcerated in the U.S., but sent back at the conclusion of their trial. |
Anonymous
| If people are working here illegally, they are not paying their fair share of taxes because they are working off the books. |
Anonymous
Not always true. Many have their taxes taken out of their pay, and then never file to claim their refund. Which means they're paying more than their fair share. They also have no way of getting around sales tax, utilities/ services tax, etc. |
Anonymous
Yes, but you're more than making back your tax dollar with cheaper food, cheaper construction, cheaper landscaping, and people available to keep California and other fire-prone areas from burning down during the dry months. What's more, all of the undocumented workers with fake papers who are working in these industries are paying social security taxes into a system that will never pay THEM back a dime. Be thankful. |
Anonymous
| immigration, illegal or legal, is definitely a big plus for the economy because of the cheaper labor costs. |
Anonymous
Not at all, report away. |
Anonymous
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Why do I get the feeling that everyone here thinks they are better than someone who is an immigrant?
Are immigrants, legal or not, still human beings. Seems like the new political correctness is to judge and condemn them. No-one is concerned about the other global issues - yes this is a global issue. Believe it or not, most people want to live in their own country, and leave out of desperation. But we are not talking about how they put their lives in danger to get somewhere, or how they miss their families, are abused by unscrupulous employers and everything else you can think of, and no-one is in anyway concerned about what could be done in their own country, so that they would not need to become illegal immigrants |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
In the short run. We can not really measure the social problems that can come along. One thing that bugs me is that many of these people are coming from countries that have serious corruption and crime. I wonder how much of that will come along, especially when they start to establish themselves in the political system. One hundren years ago, many people came from a certain island in the Mediterranean, they brought a ton of crime, and nearly crippled our FBI. Hope that does not happen again. |
Anonymous
Actually, in the long run they are positive contributors to the economy from a cash perspective. They often are a burden on services at first when they are poor, although they do provide cheap labor. But the real benefit is that immigrants by and large better themselves, which makes the country richer. Once they have been here a while, they start to buy homes, get better jobs, start businesses, pay more taxes, etc. I can't recall the study, but one pretty good analysis shows that if you look at immigrants longitudinally, you see they have a positive NPV. |