Food sales. $$$ into the local economy. Sounds bad.
When it's with stolen money, yes it is bad.
Rental income for some slumlord somewhere.
With stolen money. Good for the illegal migrant, good for the slumlord, bad for everyone else.
Fair hit. But they DO pay taxes (
HERE).
They pay sales taxes because they can't help it. Fully illegal immigrants do not pay income taxes unless they have a stolen social security number. I live in a place with lots of illegal workers, they work for cash. Paper or electronic;
never W2.
Also (and this is true of all other "but they pay taxes"): If they paid enough taxes to pay for the government services they used then just charge them for the government services they use directly.
That's where the house of lies falls apart, you know damn well they don't pay their way. That's why it's called "progressive" taxation, the wealth "progresses" from people who produced it to people who didn't.
Actually, I take that back, they could pay their own way if the government wasn't a money laundering organization. Schools should be like $1000/student/semester; not $7,000.
BTW: my wife and I never had kids. Never will.
That is unfortunate. They're more effective than any drug at giving your life meaning.
Never had any kids in the school systems. Yet we have to pay property taxes and other taxes that go to support those schools. Will you give me MY money back?
Sure, just make me dictator. I promise to strive for zero tolerance of theft.
I'd love it because it would be quite a lot now.
Yep, they could have probably rebuilt half of these central American nations with the money they've stolen from people like you; but they aren't. Why? Because you can't say "no".
Things would be very different, much better for everyone if we could say "no". Then there legitimately would be very little reason to object to vetted immigration.
Not sure you knew this but some AMERICANS are psychotic gang members who take over parts of cities. (And some of them are brown as well)
More of bad thing is worse than less of bad thing. Also the kinds of gangs that rule when they have to kill other gangs instead of police; they're worse.
C'mon....drug traffickers? WHO ARE THEY SELLING DRUGS TO IN AMERICA??? We don't do drugs! And if we did we'd ethically source them from non-cartel organizations!
I have no idea what point you think you've made (again).
Without the unwise or immoral cooperation of Americans they could not do harm. Yes, I never assumed otherwise. None of my points depend on that being false. The government stealing to help the migrants is also only a problem because the government (Americans) are stealing (which is immoral and impractical in the wider scope).
So there's no drug trafficking going on at the Southern Border. Otherwise it would imply WE ARE PROVIDING DEMAND FOR THEIR PRODUCT.
That's obviously true, but it's also possible they're moving their drug enslaved people here with them. Still a motivation if they're allowed to simply steal property and land, which they have been doing to some degree (see apartments, gang territories, squatting epidemic).