Obama Fought The Law..

[Benton]

(05-27-2015, 04:48 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: There is..... Choose either open borders or a welfare state.   You can't have both... So either cut benefits or secure the border.

Eh, not really.

There's a lot in between those extremes. Like funding immigration agencies already established so they can do their jobs of processing workers and either a- making sure they're gainfully employed and paying taxes or b- deported when their "vacation" is over. Bam. Problem (mostly) solved. I haven't seen any numbers, but I wonder if the taxes many workers aren't paying (because they're working jobs paying cash and outside the purview of USCIS) would cover the cost of the employees who are supposed to be regulating them?

Undocumented workers do still pay taxes. Sales taxes, gas taxes, sin taxes, some pay payroll taxes, indirect property tax (if they're renting somewhere which someone is legally paying for). To say they aren't being taxed and receiving benefits is incorrect.