Immigration Debate - Alamogordo, NM

John Nolan wrote:

Arizona State's Rights

Just me again wrote:

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The law, as written, is full of holes. The Arizona lawmakers did a pretty bad job in drafting it. It will not take long before the US Supreme Court will declare it unconstitutional. Even the amended version is not good enough. There are many hispanics living in Arizona that are there legally and don't speak a word of English. International students attending the UA, mexican visitors with legal visas and time permits, legal permanent resident aliens, and others are going to be targeted by police unjustly. It does not matter how you write the law, it will lead to illegal profiling and widespread discrimination. In a state that has more than 60% hispanics, who do you think the lawmakers are targeting? I'm for legal migration and control of our borders but the federal government has sole control of this issue. Arizona does not stand a chance in keeping this law on the books, period.

Just me again wrote:

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The law, as written, is full of holes. The Arizona lawmakers did a pretty bad job in drafting it. It will not take long before the US Supreme Court will declare it unconstitutional. Even the amended version is not good enough. There are many hispanics living in Arizona that are there legally and don't speak a word of English. International students attending the UA, mexican visitors with legal visas and time permits, legal permanent resident aliens, and others are going to be targeted by police unjustly. It does not matter how you write the law, it will lead to illegal profiling and widespread discrimination. In a state that has more than 60% hispanics, who do you think the lawmakers are targeting? I'm for legal migration and control of our borders but the federal government has sole control of this issue. Arizona does not stand a chance in keeping this law on the books, period.

Gorky wrote:

Call it what you will it's still profiling.

Patriot 1775 wrote:

If you cross our Borders illegally,then your a criminal. Criminals are not welcome here, we already have enough of our own! Our country was founded by Immigrants who came here for freedom, not to free load off of taxpayer's like the illegal's are doing today.

Common wrote:

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Food for thought!
Taxes
The Social Security Administration believes that about half of unauthorized immigrants pay Social Security Taxes. A 2005 New York Times piece reported that over 9 million W-2 wage forms with incorrect or false Social Security Numbers were turned into the government in 2002, a reasonable benchmark for the number of undocumented workers. These represented some $56 billion dollars in earnings,$6 billion in Social Security taxes and $1.5 billion for Medicare.
Naturally, the exact tax numbers for illegal immigrants are hard to establish, but at least it is clear they are paying into the system.
Consumption
Something else that many opponents of illegal immigration forget or choose to ignore is the consumer power of this group. UCLA's Raul Hinojosa is quoted in BusinessWeek estimating that "the total goods and services they consume ... plus all they produce for their employers, is close to about $800 billion."
Some argue that much of what illegal immigrants make doesn't benefit the U.S. economy because it is sent back to their families in Mexico and other countries in the form of remittances. Even considering the $42 billion that the World Bank says left the United States (in 2006) as remittances, that is only about 10% of illegal immigrants' wages, says Hinojosa. That leaves about $400-450 billion of that is consumptive capacity staying in the U.S.
Read more at Suite101: The Benefits of Illegal Immigration: Taxes, Consumption, and Labor Dynamism http://americanaffairs.suite101.com/article.c ...