(04-21-2019, 07:03 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-19-2019, 11:14 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:  Not so much.

If you know of a way that illegal immigrants are avoiding paying sales tax and property tax, let me  know.  if you buy stuff retail you're paying sales tax, and if you have a roof over your head you're paying property tax.
If they're paid under the table, they avoid income tax and payroll tax, but many of them are paid with fraudulent social security numbers and have their payroll taxes and income taxes withheld just like ours.

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(04-20-2019, 08:19 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:
You're living 20 years in the past. Coming here for jobs ended in 2009. Welcome to 2019. Most of the illegals today are not coming to the US to work, they are coming to be taken care of by US taxpayers. Are you really that naive to think that the caravan dragging children 1000 miles across Mexico are doing it for jobs?

you're right that things are changing, but those who came over here illegally to work 10 or 20 years ago are still here for the most part. we have to figure out what the law should do about them, as well as what the law should do about newer arrivals.

Sure, but what is the Democratic Party's policy on securing the border?   Rightly or wrongly, the impression I get is that they are against securing the border.  You're a Democrat, right?   Does the party have some sort of policy they are pushing, or is it all just demonizing the opposition for trying to secure the border?

"Democrats are fighting for every immigrant who feels threatened by Donald Trump’s election. We will not stand by and watch families be torn apart — Democrats in Congress and in states and cities across the country are already standing up to Trump’s hatred and bigotry to defend their immigrant neighbors."

https://democrats.org/issues/immigration-reform/

"...defend their immigrant neighbors..." sounds like they are not in favor of enforcing immigration laws on people who are already in the country.  

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