[lit-ideas] Re: Immigration

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:51:06 +0100

CK>> Wait a sec. I may be wrong, but I don't think you have to be a citizen
of
> the US to live here legally and pay income taxes. It's common for one
person
> in a family--coming from Mexico--to have a green card, but the others
either
> remain "illegal" (and sans green card) or are born here. Green cards
aren't
> that expensive in the Central Valley.


right; Robert and I were pointing (independently) to the fact that a totally
illegal singleton without a green card can't pay taxes,

> I think we're confusing issues. Poverty is one issue. Immigration from
other
> countries to the US, for labor reasons as opposed to political asylum or
> family reunification, is another issue. Then there's the issue of
> Mexico--

Yes

Judy Evans, Cardiff
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