cicerone imposter wrote:There was an interesting article in yesterday's San Jose Mercury News about how the government has no way to enforce the recent threat to find illegals working at US companies.
Many illegals using fraudulent social security numbers are not being followed up by the employers to match them against the list put out by the security agencies, and it's against the law to report social security number problems to other agencies of the US.
It's almost too funny to contemplate.
Actually, it makes perfect sense. Quietly, behind closed doors, our collective government knows that illegal aliens are a net positive for our economy. The SS Administration created a Tax Payer identification number specifically with illegals in mind, then set about on an awareness campaign in neighborhoods where higher percentages of illegals reside, specifically advertising the FACT that the info would go to no other agency. It was their way of condoning the "illegal activity", providing taxes were paid
at least as far as the IRS was concerned (I linked info to it many pages ago). Knowing full well that millions of illegals are here working, and not creating a viable option for them to pay their taxes would have been foolish.
On the other hand; if you'd prefer an ignorant explanation, with no foundation in fact whatsoever:
okie wrote: We are a victim of bleeding heart liberals, imposter, that have created this situation of political correctness and not wanting to offend anyone or violate anybody's poor rights, much less people that break the law.
Actually; we are the proud recipients of a freedom/liberty combination that bests all that came before it. The giants who built this country were acutely concerned about people's rights. In a just society; Law Enforcement and Liberty are not opposing values. Your accusation that "we are a victim of bleeding heart liberals" is an idiotic knee-jerk response, likely the product of talk radio regurgitation, that demonstrates a profound ignorance of the core values that make this country great. Few people would describe me as a "bleeding heart liberal" (save the ill-informed and terminally stupid), yet my position aligns with the bleeding heart liberal's almost completely. This suggests their might be more to it than Rush Limbaugh has shared with you. :wink:
okie wrote: And this following story about not counting illegals until the after 2010 I find to be hilarious as well, if it wasn't so sad as well.
We should have a Census earlier that we have for centuries just so bigots can bitch?
okie wrote:Why don't we quit arresting all criminals entirely, after all maybe they would quit hiding so much if we quit bothering them. We could then count all of them easier by simply letting them report their crimes, which they probably would if we do not arrest them, and especially if we reward them with good jobs, etc.
Now you're on to something! Not only could we count them; WE COULD EFFECTIVELY TAX THEM! Write your congressman immediately and explain that you would like to see Drugs, Gambling, Prostitution and any other victimless crime regulated and taxed, rather than the continuation of failed policies of prohibition that create a haven for organized crime, and deprive the collective of said entrepreneurs' fair share of taxes. Good thinking Okie!
