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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
So, the tax money I spend on illegals is no different than yours.
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Neither are the taxes that illegal immigrants pay to support the government programs that benefit all of us.
I really dislike it when people assume that illegal immigrants are all freeloaders when most are working and paying taxes just like the rest of us. Illegal immigration is what happens when the immigration system makes it too difficult and cumbersome for people to get into the country legally. We shouldn't pretend like these people broke the law because they were too lazy to fill out some paperwork or something. For impovershed people from certain countries, it is incredibly difficult to get in legally and can take decades, if ever, to get in (if it weren't, why would people literally risk their lives to get in here?) And maybe your answer is that these people just shouldn't be able to get in, but I really don't think that a closed system like that will ever be successful. If you want people to follow the law in achieving X, you have to make it possible. If it is impossible, what is the incentive to follow the law?