[lit-ideas] Re: Immigration
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:11:41 -0800
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.
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--its inability to fend for itself, as a nation (if I've got it wrong,
then what would explain all the immigration?) and all the current problems
you, as a USian, see instantly and cringe at, when you visit the place. I
wonder if we'd be having protests on immigration if Canadians were
immigrating to the US in vast numbers. Why do I doubt that we would?
But is it fixing up Mexico on the US agenda? Should it be? How about fixing
up our own messes? There's the near-equivalent of New Orleans-level poverty
in most major US cities.
(No. I take it back. New Orleans poverty is and was worse. I saw it there,
some years back, and was shocked. It made the slums of Houston and Los
Angeles look comfy and safe.)
Carol
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Paul" <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Immigration
> Marlena wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 3/26/2006 5:46:09 P.M. Central Standard Time,
>> robert.paul@xxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> You seem to be saying that Labor Ready is falsifying its books (if
>> it is
>> hiring illegal aliens who do not have a green card).
>>
>> HI,
>> No, I'm saying that Labor Ready is hiring legal folks.
>> Andreas is the one stating that his area does not have things like Labor
>> Ready--they have the trucks that pick up illegal immigrants who are NOT
>> paying taxes and that they are just FINE with not paying taxes.
>
> Earlier, Judy wrote that illegal immigrants can't pay taxes. This true,
> Marlena.
>
> In reply to Judy (not Andreas) you asked why they couldn't.
>
> "Why not? If the company were like the Labor Ready company here, they
> would be paying taxes at the end of the year because it would be
> documented that they had earned what they did."
>
> If they were illegal immigrants it could not be 'documented' that they'd
> earned whatever they did unless?as I wrote earlier?they were passing as
> (and accepted as) legal immigrants with work visas. Labor Ready must, in
> its accounting to the IRS document them in some way: LR cannot say that
> they were sending out illegal immigrants as temps.
>
> "According to Andreas, they are making quite a lot of money...but not
> paying taxes on it."
>
> Whether or not they are making quite a lot of money they cannot (Judy is
> right) pay taxes and yet be working 'off the books,' as illegals.
>
> This is as clearly as I can explain it to you.
>
> Robert Paul
>
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