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On Tue, 02 May 2006 06:58:30 -0600, KC wrote:

What would a day without illegal aliens really be like?

Social Security would be in serious trouble more than now without
all those illegals.
Every dime put on a bogus SS number is a dime the governmemt will
never have to pay back. Some baby in Arkansas has his 40 quarters 100
times over and makes several hundred grand a year, in 40 states but he
will still only get a regular SS check when he is old.
If they really wanted to find the illegals they would put the IRS on
them, not the INS. Those are the folks who can follow the money.
On the other hand, if an "illegal" is willing to sign up, pay all his
taxes and work full time, I am not sure why we shouldn't give them a
green card.
If we really think SS can survive we need a ****load of new worker
bees at the bottom of the pyramid.
Also reject the idea that these folks are "stealing our jobs".
If some illegal, illiterate, non-english speaking Mexican peasant can
steal your dream job, a reassessmenmt of your career goals is in
order.

The IRS DOES come after them. One of the conditions of citizenship is
that you are current on your income taxes. In amny cases an immigrant
is claiming to be married to a legal, resident citizen (we've seen
movies about this too). That means before they goto the INS to apply
for citizenship (10s of thousands a year do this in Houston TX alone),
they have to file amended tax returns for 3 or more years to show the
income that they BOTH earned while they were living together as husband
and wife, one legal the other illegal.

Income tax services near the INS processing centers get a fair number of