Originally posted by ohsigmachi:
Illegal immigrants should be kept out of the country at all costs...

If all illegal immigrants aplied for legal admission, were naturalized and issued federal ID numbers and social security numbers the IRS would be much more likely to catch them if they worked for money under the table.

My hometown is about 45 minutes away from Dalton, GA(the carpet capital of the world) and the number of immigrant workers there is amazing (for a podunk place so far from a boarder area). The averange manual/unskilled worker in a carpet mill makes about $15/hr and then works about 60 hours a week(~$3600/mo). So much for the "peanuts" theory, these guys are making bank and sending big bucks back to mexico and they have enough left over to make a decent living here. Almost all of the laborers are illegal and very little of that money is taxed. There wives and girlfriends get on welfare, thier kids go to school and get the free lunch program, while mommy and daddy don't pay a dime into the tax pool (most times they find ways around the sales tax, like having the local spanish church/mission set up a food/clothing bank that is a tax free organization so that the food and clothing are gotten for a small donation or tithe and NO MONEY GOES INTO THE LOCAL RESOURCES...NONE ZERO Illegal immigrants are truly a drain on our country... I have several caucasion friends who were deparately trying to get hired at a carpet mill or industrial site and couldn't because the foreman was hispanic and most likely illegal himself.



Ive never worked in a carpet mill, but im guessing that the company is paying $15/hr because the work deserves it, not just because they like to cut profits. So if they make big "bank" its because they deserve it and have earned it, just like any legal white worker.

You also made some very big generalizations, you said that all or most of those workers all get on welfare, have kids that get free school food, get used clothing from churches/missions, get free or cheap food from churches/missions, and basically dont spend any money in the local economy. People do go out to eat, they do buy food from grocery stores (if you know anything about these churches, they have very little inventory and dont give too much out), they buy clothes from walmart or the mall (not everyone has a complete closet full of used clothes), and waste money for the same things you and I do.

I wouldnt consider them a complete drain, especially when they earn the money, money they can use any way they see fit, just like we do.

-Ivan C.