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Originally Posted by MMM
Actually employed illegal workers do pay taxes and do pay Social Security. It all comes out of their paychecks. Remember, no one is going after the employers who hire them, unless they don't pay their taxes on the workers they employ-legal or not.
The vast majority of those undocumented workers who cross the border illegally are not trying to regain anything other than money. Why has the number increased so greatly? Because NAFTA flooded Mexico with cheap products from China, and industry and agriculture was largely destroyed in Mexico. Walmart is the largest retailer in Mexico.
You are right, they are not coming to be citizens, but they are coming to feed their families.
So you can call them criminals and dehumanize them if you like, but they are not an invading army, they are victims of a destroyed economy and are trying to find something better.
If the shoe was on the other foot, what would you do?
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They don't pay their full amount... they all know to claim "Married" and 8 or 9 Dependents, which reduces withholding to a very minimal amount, and then they don't file taxes to pay the remaining amount or prove that they really have that many dependents. If/when the govt starts coming after them for not filing, they change IDs again. I've seen this many times.