Why don't you post what's important to tax paying legal American citizens who are footing the bill?
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Here's what they "contribute"!!\nIllegal immigration is against the LAW. Legal immigration is OKAY. We would be SAVING tax dollars by sending them back. Here's what they cost us (the USA) ANNUALLY:\n\nEducation: $22.5 billion \nBi-lingual Education: $3.3 billion \nAFDC: $2.4 billion \nSSI: $2.9 billion \nSocial Security: $24.8 billion \nHousing Assistance: $2.6 billion \nCriminal Justice: $2.6 billion \nJobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion \nOther Programs: $51.4 billion \nFood Stamps: $7 billion \nHealth Care: $1.4 billion \n(That Totals $131.7 BILLION Annually) $131.7 "BILLION"!!ANNUALLY!!\n\nThe USA would be better off WITHOUT the freeloaders!! USA citizens CAN, HAVE and WILL do the jobs they think we won't do. We don't do them because their employers get THEM for slave wages. When the illegal immigrants go back to their country, the employers will be forced to PAY the US American citizen a better wage for that job. If we have to pay a little more for veggies that will be okay, we'll have more income and will be putting that income BACK into the USA economy. The illegal immigrants make low wages, get welfare and send money back to their families in their home countries, not back into the USA economy.
96578
You will always have to file income taxes even if you do not owe our government money.  Sorry!
220469
If I remember correctly from an episode of Lou Dobbs on CNN - in EXCESS OF 30 BILLION Dollars per year!  That's scary!\n\nGoy1012002/Stupidity_of_pride:  Why do you believe that using a fake Soc Sec number and being an illegal, gives you the RIGHT to the same benefits that LEGAL Citizens (Immigrants or not)?  If people would come in the right way, pay taxes with their 'real number', then most all I know would have NO PROBLEM with you or anyone else getting services that 'any othe tax payer would get'.  When you are not paying taxes LEGALLY because you are an Illegal...... you kinda missed the point.  You are entitled to services when you become an American Citizen, not before and not until, I don't care how many taxes you have paid, you aren't documented.  End of story!
1132540
If you are so worried about all your money, why not just donate to a Republican campaign. If they win, they'll let you do whatever you want.. You could probably hire only illegals and not have to pay taxes either.
530094
I am an immigrant and i did it legally right from the get go... i pay taxes and do everything a hard working citizen should do... send them back... let them do it legally so they can appreciate what they will receive... make more jobs for Americans and legal immigrants, i am sick of hearing about this day without an immigrant bulltit... one more thing, why is it only the hispanics making trouble, you don't hear of any other immigrant group causing problems...hmmmm... hate me, i don't care
402070
hey i'm feelin' you pixiestix, but one thing is that i DO get gov. assistance on some things that i need and I DO work 40 hours a week to support my family and I DO PAY TAXES LIKE EVERYOTHER HARD WORKING CITIZEN... i am a citizen and i live a hard life, so when i see the minorities doing the same, i don't feel that they are just poppin' babies and living off the gov.  but of course don't get me wrong, there are those people out there.  and yes, why should we pay taxes to support illegal immigrants that are just trying to take advantage, i agree with you totally.... but for those that are working hard like you and i and are paying taxes, i think they deserve a chance to better their lives because their country can't provide the jobs, health care, and living...
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You need to file an Income Tax return if you consider yourself a citizen.
511353
unless you are an American Indian you are an immigrant.  We can not hide from the world.  Are we afraid that if we acknowledge our illegal immigrants we'll have to recognize their rights as contributors to our country?  I believe we owe more to immigrants (illegal or not) that are making a contribution providing vital services than to citizens who feel entitled to a hand out.
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I bet you are thinking... hmm... maybe I can escape from paying some tax? I don't think so... as a US citizen you are obliged to pay tax whereever you make your money.\n\nUnless you make a company offshore.. another legal entity and set it up so you are an employee... etc etc..
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The people that are complaining don't pay there taxes now. That has always been the problem. If you went in and really studied the tax system, you will find that these people are always working a scam. Tax abatement's, tax shelters, or don't pay their taxes period. They would rather get lawyer to fight the IRS then just pay their fair share, and there are millions of these people. So when somebody says to you I don't want to pay for you, they aren't paying their share in the first place, and that's not American.
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I am bothered that people want something for nothing. if you want to be a citizen, then I am supportive of this. \n\nTake the legal route.  do not come to a country illegally and then expect to just be given anything. You have to follow the proper legal channels to become a citizen and then your good.\n\nIf you are paying your taxes on all of your income (including what you getpaid in cash) then wonderful.  if you are not...then your cost of living here is being taken out of my paycheck.\n\nIf you are working with the government to gain rights to stay in this country, then wonderful and I support you.  If you are wanting ti live here, and never become legal...then this is not ok.
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If someone wants to sign up to serve our great nation then let them! They are more brave than I am! Why should you have to have a clean record to fight for the safety and security of your country? It's a better option than letting them sit in a jail cell at the taxpayers expense or, more often than not, go back home and get on wellfare (also at the taxpayers...MY...expense). Freedom isn't free and neither is paying for the "less fortunate". I say let them make something of themselves!
384138
They need to become citizens so they can pay taxes instead of getting away with not paying them.  It isn't fair.  I've read so many articles where they've interviewed several of the illegal immigrants, one gentlemen has been here for 15 years and hasn't paid a penny in taxes!!! Then he went and had a kid, so he gets tons of benefits for the kid at  the taxpayers expense!!!  I say, make them legal and take their money!!!!!!!  If they want rights and privledges, they are going to have to pay for them, just like all of us U.S. citizens have to.
4240
With all due respect, I support educating American Citizens with my tax dollars before educating foreign students. Obviously, your ethic values and efforts greatly exceed those of many of my own countrymen, but Americans continue to fall farther and farther behind other countries. While I salute and commend your efforts, my financial support remains in hope that more American Citizens will adopt YOUR values and work ethic.  Good Luck and may you reap the benefits of all your dedication, but don't ask me to back you financially.
751926
Don't even get me started.  I have so many problems with the immigration problem in the US I am not even sure where to begin.  The bottom line is that we spend billions on social welfare programs for people that contribute nothing more to this country than provide cheap labor.  I don't think it is unreasonable to ask that these folks go thru the legal immigration progress, and then become a productive "tax paying" citizen.
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I will visit you in federal prison  for not paying your taxes.The government is so afraid of offending a large group of people they do not care if the people are breaking the law as long as they get the vote. It is not just Hispanics .although they are the largest group. I guess it will take another attack on America be for the government will wake up to the fact we need to get rid of the people who came here ( for what ever reason ) ILLEGALLY. I do not care how much it cost, get rid of them NOW. Pay now or pay a whole lot more later when it maybe to late.   To SHAWN M I am 1/5 native American ( Crow tribe Kansas) My ancestors came from the polar region of Siberia so they are immigrants to.
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If you're asking me, a legal immigrant who is still waiting to become a citizen, I'll be glad to answer: because those of us who have come here legally have been able to do so because of our privilege and good fortune.  I have gone through the process, and I know how utterly ridiculous it is to suggest that low-wage workers like illegal immigrants could wait in line for their turn and come here legally.  That is preposterous.  I was very fortunate to get an exemplary education (in a country that boasts an illiteracy rate of close to 50%), and to have come to the US to pursue advance graduate work in a highly abstract discipline.  This is the only way I can think of that I would have been able to come to the US as an immigrant, short of marrying an American citizen visiting my home country.  The fact is that American legal immigration policy is nowadays much more exclusive than it used to be when Ellis island was still functioning, or when your ancestors first came here, most likely without much money, without a graduate education, etc.  And because American immigration policy is far tougher now, it is no surprise that these people took the option of coming here illegally.  I know people like them back in my home country, and I cannot blame them.\n\nIf you ask me to support better control of the American southern border, I'll be the first to second your suggestion.  But if you want me to rail and rant against people who don't know any better and who have been dealt much worse cards in life than I have, then you're asking the impossible.  I am fortunate to be here, and in spite of how aggravating the immigration process has been, I stand in solidarity with those who are less fortunate than myself.\n\nHow can I justify amnesty for illegals?  This way: it is the humane thing to do, especially in the case of illegal immigrants that have taken roots in this country, who have not gotten in trouble with the laws of the land (except immigration law), who have family and friends here, and who have nowhere to go back to.