Candidates Court Illegal Immigrants Thursday, July 08, 2004 By Matt Hayes
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124995,00.html
"According to the IRS, in 2001 individuals paying taxes with an ITIN, rather than a Social Security number (i.e. illegal aliens; the only individuals who have a need for or qualify for an ITIN are those without citizenship or lawful permanent residency) paid $305 million in federal income taxes. Calculated against 8 million illegal aliens, that’s a per capita federal tax payment of $38.13, and against 12 million illegal aliens, that’s a per capita federal tax payment of only $25.42. Since neither payment indicates earnings that would allow an individual to survive for one year, we can conclude only that there is persistent, massive tax non-compliance among illegal immigrants.
Why are our elected officials, including our Republican president, competing against one another to legitimize and reward lawbreaking on a scale more massive than anything our country has seen? How can Kerry, who has chosen a populist as his running mate, make election promises that effectively pit low-income Americans against illegal immigrants?
(The answer is that there is an enormous population of illegal immigrants in this country who may be eternally grateful to the political party that gives them legal status, and might show that gratitude by voting for that party when they are eligible to do so.)
African Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates, and observers consistently note that America’s lowest wage earners have voted for the Democratic candidate in every recent election. But both are being displaced by an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants who now enter and remain in the U.S. every year."
(this is me) Why should an illegal pay taxes? Wouldn't that be dum to expose themseleves?
Great catch yesterday in Houston; "33 illegal immigrants discovered in Pasadena"
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2668528
It's the "Coyotes" that help make coming here easier for them. What the story didn't say, but was reported, is one of the illegals said they paid as much as $6,000.00 for their trip here.