Republicans and Latino Voters: Has the GOP Shifted on Immigration Reform?

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Arent YOU the ILLEGAL in MY nation I'm a NATIVE AMERICAN WHEN ARE YOU LEAVING?

Illegals take more than they pay in taxes

"Caring citizen"

Stop repeating yourself. Several prior posts in this thread outline the FACT that illegals take/steal a lot more from the system than what little they pay in taxes. Example: California where illegals impose a net burden of about $10 billion a year on taxpayers.

Many illegal aliens work under the table and send tens of billions of dollars in untaxed remittances out of the country. If Americans had these jobs, these $$ would stay in the U.S. and be used for more productive purposes.

This is just one reason why the vast majority of Americans reject "comprehensive immigration reform" a/k/a amnesty.

Undocument pay more taxes than you think

Since undocumented workers have only fake numbers, they’ll never be able to collect the benefits these taxes are meant to pay for. Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the “earnings suspense file” — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus.

The file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year. Beyond federal taxes, all illegals automatically pay state sales taxes that contribute toward the upkeep of public facilities such as roads that they use, and property taxes through their rent that contribute toward the schooling of their children.

The non-partisan National Research Council found that when the taxes paid by the children of low-skilled immigrant families — most of whom are illegal — are factored in, they contribute on average $80,000 more to federal coffers than they consume. Yes, many illegal migrants impose a strain on border communities on whose doorstep they first arrive, broke and unemployed.

To solve this problem equitably, these communities ought to receive the surplus taxes that federal government collects from immigrants. But the real reason border communities are strained is the lack of a guest worker program.

Such a program would match willing workers with willing employers in advance so that they wouldn’t be stuck for long periods where they disembark while searching for jobs. The cost of undocumented aliens is an issue that immigrant bashers have created to whip up indignation against people they don’t want here in the first place.

With the Senate having just returned from yet another vacation and promising to revisit the stalled immigration bill, politicians ought to set the record straight: Illegals are not milking the government. If anything, it is the other way around.

Undocumented Immigrants pay MORE TAXES Than You Think,

Un immigrants paying more taxes than you think

Eight million illegals pay Social Security, Medicare and income taxes. Denying public services to people who pay their taxes is an affront to America’s bedrock belief in fairness. But many “pull-up-the-drawbridge” politicians want to do just that when it comes to illegal immigrants.

The fact that illegal immigrants pay taxes at all will come as news to many Americans. A stunning two thirds of illegal immigrants pay Medicare, Social Security and personal income taxes.

Yet, nativists like Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have popularized the notion that illegal aliens are a colossal drain on the nation’s hospitals, schools and welfare programs — consuming services that they don’t pay for.

In reality, the 1996 welfare reform bill disqualified illegal immigrants from nearly all meanstested government programs including food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid and Medicare-funded hospitalization.

The only services that illegals can still get are emergency medical care and K-12 education. Nevertheless, Tancredo and his ilk pushed a bill through the House criminalizing all aid to illegal aliens — even private acts of charity by priests, nurses and social workers.

Potentially, any soup kitchen that offers so much as a free lunch to an illegal could face up to five years in prison and seizure of assets. The Senate bill that recently collapsed would have tempered these draconian measures against private aid.

But no one — Democrat or Republican — seems to oppose the idea of withholding public services. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law that requires everyone who gets Medicaid — the government-funded health care program for the poor — to offer proof of U.S. citizenship so we can avoid “theft of these benefits by illegal aliens,” as Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., puts it. But, immigrants aren’t flocking to the United States to mooch off the government.

According to a study by the Urban Institute, the 1996 welfare reform effort dramatically reduced the use of welfare by undocumented immigrant households, exactly as intended. And another vital thing happened in 1996: the Internal Revenue Service began issuing identification numbers to enable illegal immigrants who don’t have Social Security numbers to file taxes.

One might have imagined that those fearing deportation or confronting the prospect of paying for their safety net through their own meager wages would take a pass on the IRS’ scheme. Not so. Close to 8 million of the 12 million or so illegal aliens in the country today file personal income taxes using these numbers, contributing billions to federal coffers.

No doubt they hope that this will one day help them acquire legal status — a plaintive expression of their desire to play by the rules and come out of the shadows. What’s more, aliens who are not self-employed have Social Security and Medicare taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks.

Democrats are hurting U.S. workers

Opposition to amnesty had nothing to do with the Republican defeat in November. The vast majority of Americans in fact oppose amnesty and want immigration laws enforced.

But isn't it pathetic that many Democrats, who claim they represent the working class, refuse to support the E-Verify system -- which protects American workers by verifying if someone is legally authorized to work in the U.S.

It is apparent that Obama, Reid, Pelosi and other far left liberals would rather see taxpayer-funded stimulus jobs go to illegal aliens rather than unemployed U.S. citizens.

Wake up people.

Immigration my butt!

Republicans did not lose due to their immigration stance. They had no stance. The only thing the RNC stands for is making money for THEMSELVES! As long as Republicans continue with their anti-poor, anti-immigrant, anti-honesty, anti-transparency agenda they will never regain their position. They stood by for eight years while the Bush administration drove this nation to the brink of disaster, to a deep recession, and probably now a Depression. All they can do is criticize, all they do is stand there with all their pomposity and stupidity and do nothing ways. We all know this is a diversion, an attempt to distract the nation so we don't see what useless creatures they are. Where was the Republican leadereship when Bush was driving our nation to insolvency? As long as RNC recognizes Rush Looserbaugh as a representative of their party, as long as they would want someone like Sarah Palin to lead this country, they will never have any relevancy. Thank God.

Immigration has nothing to do with it.

Republicans did not lose because of immigration, they may want to find excuses so as not to face the truth. Republicans lost due to their arrogance, lack of conscience, and stupidity. Do you really think a responsible, intelligent group would accept someone like Sarah Palin to lead a country! Republicans saw where the country was headed but their love of money kept them on the same track. Instead of attempting to change the disastrous course we were going down they continued to allow the Bush administration to drive our nation of the brink of a Depression. Eight years of a downward spiral and never did they say one word, or attempt to change course. Republicans lost because people lost respect for them, don't trust them and will probably never believe them again. Until they give up their IDOL, money and start to behave responsibly and with some conscience, I doubt the will ever regain any status but that of losers. Even now, after all the damage Bush did, after rewarding the Wall Street Robber Barons with billions of dollars for their incompetence, their lack of ethics, they have the nerve to criticize Obama's plan. Of all the nerve, they talk about waste! What about the billions of dollars lost, wasted in Iraq because Bush and Cheney awarded Haliburton and Blackwater, and others with non-bid contracts that were never audited or monitored. What about the billions spent monthly in Iraq on an unauthorized, unplanned war, the billions wasted in Hurrican Katrina because Bush awarded non-bid contracts to Haliburton subsidiaries. What about the billions wasted when Bush gave Haliburon non-bid contracts to arm, feed, and care for our troops with shoddy equipment. How dare they. That is why the Republicans lost due to their lack of ethics, their lies, their misrepresentations all their corrupt ways. Yet, they have the nerve to criticize. Millions say it is typical of the RNC.

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