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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, why shouldn't schools be required to report undocumented students?   I'm troubled by the implication that being undocumented is perfectly A-OK.  It isn't.

That attitude is why a lot of people went for Trump.  I didn't, but I understand why people did.[/quote]

Because presumably their parents are the ones who broke the law, not the students. [/quote]

But you are sure quick to report any hint of residency cheating. That's on the parents and not the kids, right? So if a kid from Mexico is in your school illegally, it's ok. If a kid from a different DC neighborhood dares to try it, you'll report it as fast as your fingers can dial the phone.[/quote]

[b]Uh... the difference is in most cases the undocumented child's parents are actually paying taxes in DC, where as the Maryland child's asshole parents are not.[/b] [/quote]

Most undocumented workers pay taxes, including many who have state and federal taxes withheld from their paychecks.[/quote]

+2.

And of course they pay property taxes where they live (directly or indirectly), just like everyone else.[/quote]

The bigger question is how can an illegal immigrant get a job in the first place. Plenty of able boded citizens employable.  [/quote]

two quick thoughts:

1) Well, that's a question for the employers, not for the schools, isn't it?

2) These days being "able boded" is not as important as being "able brained"[/quote]

Or "willing to work for wages that citizens will not."

I've long been annoyed by the argument "they do jobs Americans won't do!"  That's b.s.  There are no jobs Americans won't do.  They just won't do them for free.  Stop the flood of undocumented workers who will work for next to nothing, and the price of labor (largely accruing to low-skilled AA males) will increase.[/quote]

Or maybe not.  Georgia cracked down on illegal immigration (by passing a "papers, please" law), and the farmers couldn't find enough people to pick the crops and just let them rot in the field.  They said Americans wouldn't do the job, but what they really meant was "Americans wouldn't do the jobs for the wages they were offering."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-georgias-immigration-law-backfires/2/#54fee87c1a7b [/quote]

+1.

This is pretty obvious, but the racists --some Trumpists, some Hillaryists-- have trouble dealing with facts.[/quote]

You want to pay higher grocery prices?[/quote]

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