July 21, 2006
Illegal Immigrants. Friends or Foes?
Every news station you watch these days will always have something new about illegal immigrants. On Fox News you will always hear how illegals are ruining
Let me tell you a quick lesson in history. Ever since the beginning of civilization, societies with the most power were able to use cheap labor efficiently which gave them a huge advantage when it came to their economics.
Now that most civilized nations have made the use of slaves illegal, how are developed countries able to survive against growing countries like
I think that exploiting illegal immigrants as sub-human, paying them much less then the average day laborer, and not giving them any kind of benefits is immoral. On the other hand, letting illegal immigrants live in the U.S. without paying taxes, living the American lifestyle (best medicine, better neighborhoods, cheap energy, ect.), and letting their children go to public schools on the taxpayer dollar is also extremely wrong.
I do believe that President Bush’s Immigration Plan is a positive step to control immigration. But how can we make the “‘they don’t pay any taxes’ people” happy? Well, I am a strong believer in tax reform and the Fair Tax Plan is a great way to make most people content. The tax plan (in summary) makes any one, whether they are Americans, illegal immigrants, or just people visiting America, pay the same amount of taxes.
Immigration will have a serious affect if
Please read the Fair Tax Plan and if you think it will benefit
Man this is a doosy. I know I\’m gonna be dubbed as a right wing loon, but the truth is that this is a subject that affects us all. Cheap labor has broght the minimum wage down and keeps the poor, well poor. I\’m not suggetsing that we deport all of the hard working Illegal immigrants, but we do need for them to come in in an orderly fashion. They should have no priority over other people that are trying to immigrate into this great country legally. Also, I just watched the TV show 30 days this past week, which made me empathise with these illegals, however the parents which skipped the border over 12 years ago, still don\’t speak english. These people need to add their flavour to the USA not change the recipe. I myself am an immigrant that came here legally, and I have great respect for this country as I have taken the time an effort to learn about its culture and history. Just as if we moved to France we would expect ourselves to learn French and adapt to theier way of life, so must ALL imigrants, not just the legal ones.
I work for a construction company which has given me a new outlook on this issue. First off, I would like to say that these illegal citizens being employed by any legitimate company are in fact paying taxes. The companies require a valid social security number and picture id. Of course the fact that their face does not match the face on the id is gracefully overlooked. The point is that these people are paying taxes and the government gains even more by the fact that they will not be filing for any refunds.
These illegal citizens also are doing the jobs that no one else really wants to do. For instance we were forced recently to fire all of our illegal employees, who were all very hardworking and were payed very fairly($15 an hour)and taxed, due to increasing govermental enforcement. Now we are having an incredibly hard time filling those jobs because most people in todays society just dont want to be a construction worker. It is deemed too hard and very unglamorous. We have been forced to use day labor through a labor company with employees being payed a mere $6 an hour (although we have to pay the labor company $11 an hour per worker) and they just dont want to work. They are lazy for the most part, highly underpayed, and usually extremely sketchy.
I will end in saying that I am totally against illegals being payed under the table. But if they are being payed fairly, paying taxes, and doing the jobs that no one else really wants to do give them a break. They just want to work. Or if you like you can take away all of their jobs, but dont come whining to me when your kids are forced to be tought in overcrowded trailers because the construction company has no one left to build that new school or when that $250,000 house you are eyeing jumps up to $300,000 cause the supply just cant keep up to the demand.