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If we're going to ignore the law for illegal aliens, then I guess it'd be okay to ignore the law with taxes, robbery, murder, theft
The Senate is currently considering a massive immigration reform bill, the "Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and immigration Reform Act of 2007" (S. 1348). This bill would grant amnesty to nearly all illegal immigrants currently in the United States.
The fiscal consequences of this amnesty will vary depending on the time period analyzed. It is expected that many illegal immigrants who are currently working "off the books" and paying no direct taxes will begin to work "on the books" after receiving amnesty, and therefore tax payments will rise immediately. By contrast, under S. 1348, benefits to these immigrants from Social Security, Medicare, and most means-tested welfare programs (such as Food Stamps, public housing, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) will be delayed for many years. In consequence, then, the increase in taxes and fines paid by amnesty recipients may initially exceed slightly the increase in government benefits received. In the long run, however, the opposite will be true. In particular, the cost of retirement benefits for amnesty recipients is likely to be very large. Overall, the net cost to taxpayers of retirement benefits for amnesty recipients is likely to be at least $2.6 trillion.
◾In 2011, we spent $717 billion in welfare programs at the federal level. Together with state programs, the total cost is close to $1 trillion.
◾Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is the only program out of nearly 80 means-tested programs that was reformed in ’96. It accounts for just 2.4% of the cost of all federal welfare programs. And even those reforms have been gutted by Obama.
◾“Since the beginning of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s, government has spent $19.8 trillion (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars) on means-tested welfare. By comparison, the combined cost of all the wars in American history — from the Revolutionary War through the current war in Afghanistan — has been $6.98 trillion (in 2011 dollars). The War on Poverty has thus cost three times as much as all of our real wars combined.”
◾What have we gotten for all of this? According the U.S. Census Bureau, some 46 million Americans, including 16 million children, were “poor” in 2010. In 1966, the share of the population living below the poverty (self-sufficiency) threshold was 14.7%; by 2011, it had actually risen — to 15.0%.
◾Food-stamp spending has exploded in recent years, from $19.8 billion in 2000 to $84.6 billion in 2011.
◾More than 100 million people, or a third of the U.S. population, received aid from at least one means-tested program (not including Social Security and Medicare).
◾More than a third of single-parent families with children are poor, compared to only 7% of families with married parents. Overall, the children of married parents are 82% less likely to be poor than are the children of single mothers.
Looking for a good paying job? Well, look no further.
No, really, stop looking. In 35 states, welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job, according to a new study by the libertarian Cato Institute, and in 13 states welfare pays more than $15 per hour.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: defcon5
Wait a moment, that would be right for a prison, but we are talking about refugees and Congress members, you know the ones that make and pass laws in the US or we are not longer the US this days
I think most people in this thread would call them criminals and some may even suggest that they get what they 'deserve'.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: links234
Is a reason why, as minors I call them refugees as the government will put them under Federal protection, adults are considered criminals as they are braking the law when they enter illegally.
originally posted by: Euphem
a reply to: amazing
Yes exactly common sense. Let's use that.
All the people who are trying to come here legally will have to wait even longer because of this. So instead of working hard and playing by the rules, you are for breaking the law to get ahead.
Sounds like you would do well on Wall Street my friend!
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
a reply to: Destinyone
That's horrible, however some of these people are definitely not children, probable the caretakers who help the kids get to the border.
Heard a congressman say they want to find the point of origin of these immigrants, this is all so suspicious.
originally posted by: Doodle19815
a reply to: myartisstrong
I can't help but picture an army being built every time I read about this. He is housing them in military bases if I am correct.......
Train them just right at this tender age..... Is there a handbook on how to create minions?
“When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side,"
I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will
pass on.
Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short
time they will know nothing else but this new community.”
Adolf Hitler
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
I found the strangest thing today while looking for maps of concentration camp photos for another topic and it made me think if these immigration camps
Deportations will make you free, the European concentration camps of the 21st century
Temporary Detention Centres for migrants
A highly profitable industry is found behind the Temporary Detention Centres for migrants (CIEs) in Spain and everywhere in Europe. From the companies building the facilities or providing catering services and health care, to the airline companies engaged in the assisted deportations of undocumented migrants. It often happens that executives of these companies also hold positions in decision-making bodies concerned with immigration issues or in powerful lobbies, thus putting themselves in a position to influence public policies in favour of their companies.
CIEs – Temporary Detention Centres for migrants
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In Spain there are currently eight CIEs for undocumented migrants under the process of deportation. One would assume that, if a deportation is impossible, the detention, making no sense, would be stopped. However, according to Martínez Escamilla’s survey in the book “Women in Detention Centres”, in 2011 only 48% of people held in CIEs were eventually deported.
OUR WORLD is becoming more and more TWISTED