[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by Bit

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Your assertion about taxes is dead wrong, though. Illegal aliens from any country DO pay taxes; they're held out of their paychecks just like everyone else's are. Think about it--these businesses would all be shut down by the IRS if they didn't pay the payroll taxes for their employees!

What happens is that since people have to use fake social security numbers to get the jobs in the first place--employers are REQUIRED to have social security cards on file for every employee--they pay the taxes but can never collect the benefits, not retirement, not Medicare, not disability, not unemployment, nothing.

I know this by direct experience; there are many illegal aliens connected to my family through two different branches. My one nephew's father, as a matter of fact, has been laid off and will soon be homeless himself if he cannot find another job.

These are hard-working people who ask for little other than a chance to make a living, and who receive even less than those of us with the proper birth certificates do. These are our neighbors, who only want to live safe lives with enough food on the table and a way to pay their rent every month. In a booming economy, we would hardly notice them; the suffering economy impacts them as much as it does everyone else. The solution is not to focus on them, but on the economy itself. The solution is to create more jobs to replace all the ones that big corporations have taken overseas.

Thank you!