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It's safe to say that the average illegal immigrant isn't a tax payer, aside from sales tax.
There can be all sorts of guesses regarding paying taxes with fake SSNs or ITIN, but there's no consistent evidence of this. Even if there was evidence of illegal immigrants paying with fake SSNs, are they to be commended for having fake SSNs? Fake SSNs can be used to cheat our social programs and drain the system dry. Paying taxes is the last on the priority list when people are draining the system, just like American citizens with fake SSNs and who are draining the system aren't applauded.
I completely understand wanting a better life and not wanting to wait for the bureaucratized process of immigrating. However, laws don't cease to exist just because there are people breaking them or because many people break them for "understandable" reasons. An American citizen who shoplifts food to feed a family is still arrested and the punishment will be based on a number of factors but, chances are, there will be some type of punishment.
These other countries' laws and punishments aren't disposable, or easily dismissed by visiting or relocating noncitizens, so ours shouldn't be.
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