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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

They'll need to triple their police force since a routine traffic stop will take a much longer time then it does now. Plus a larger jail,  to hold people for INS. Hope the locals are prepared for their next tax bill, it'll be a whopper.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

You do not need to increase the boarder patrol all you need to do is raise the minimum wage to about $15 an hour and the illegals wont be able to get a job because they will all be filled by citizens.
Bottom line is you get what you pay for.  If you are paying $8 an hour you get illegals because citizens won't work for that.

This $8.00 per hour buzz is getting Me sick and tired.  

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ORIGINAL: uwinceismile

if someone is suspected of breaking the law, and is questioned,,,,which happens thousands of times a day i would suspect. i think that is as good a time as any to check to see if someone is here llegally...
seems to make sense to me

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ORIGINAL: GoddessDustyGold

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

You do not need to increase the boarder patrol all you need to do is raise the minimum wage to about $15 an hour and the illegals wont be able to get a job because they will all be filled by citizens.
Bottom line is you get what you pay for.  If you are paying $8 an hour you get illegals because citizens won't work for that.

Emphasis/Underscore Mine...

I am so tired of hearing this.  I have worked (in the not too distant past) for $8.00 an hour.  Both of My grown daughters have worked for $8.00 per hour.  One in an office, the other in a pre-school as a pre-school teacher.
I too worked for $8.00 an hour not too long ago (1967)
 
 
 
I know many people who work for between $8 and $10 per hour. 

At nearly $4 per gallon how do they get to work...When a modest twenty year old tract house cost a half million where do they live?
 
 
I really become insulted every time I hear that this is not a living wage and that American's are too good and won't work for this wage.  They do it every day, thomsonx. So please stop spewing this elitist crap.
It is a shame that you feel simple arithmetic is elitist crap.
 
 
  Are you trying to make Me, and many others feel like trash because we figure out a way to be employed even if it is not for at least $15 per hour? 
There is nothing that I can say will have any effect on your self image.  Self image is a personal mindset.
 
 
 I make more than that now...but not that long ago, I didn't.
How much was gasoline then?
How much was rent then?
 
 
 People do what they need to do if they want to survive and try to make a go of things.  Don't fight any battles for Me.
I am not trying to fight any of your battles.  I am only trying to find a way to get illegal aliens out of my country.
My solution is to lock up the heads of the corporations who hire them.  To confiscate the assets of those companies and their corporate officers in much the same way that the authorities go after dope dealers.
 
 
 I deal with life as it comes, and if that means that I am not making what some foolishly consider a "living wage" then I have to wonder how I am living, and not badly! 
As you have already stated you make more than the poverty level.
 
 
 Half the problem with this country is people spouting these party lines and making everyone feel like they are not good enough if they don't have this and that,
This clearly cannot be directed at me because I have spouted no party line and have consistently castigated both parties in my posts.
As for this being half the problem in our country I would disagree.  The biggest problem in our country is the asinine war of aggrandizement that is sucking the economy dry.
 
 
 therefore someone better pass a law.  They're entitled, right? 
Are you suggesting that the rich are "entitled" to impoverish the not rich?  Which is what is happening.
 
 
 
At the same time I have not met a single "illegal" who is camped out at the Home Depot, or (in Phoenix) in the Pruitt's Furniture Parking Lot who will take a day job for less than $10 per hour.
You admit to meeting and dealing with illegal aliens?  Why didn't you have them arrested?  How did you verify that they were illegal?  Are you suggesting that they be compelled to work for less than $10 per hour?
 
 
 
  Same with the Domestic cleaning people.  Of course, they are not paying any taxes on that...so let's gross it up...I think $15 per hour, if they were paying taxes would be a pretty close extrapolation.
You and I both know it is the employers responsibility to withhold taxes so who is fucking whom?
Your extrapolation suffers a bit from your math.  if someone is making $10 an hour how did you get to $15?  If you were to look at your daughters paycheck which you say is $8 check her deductions to correct your math.
 
 
 Very few of the illegals are earning $8 per hour or less.  In fact, a previous post on this very thread referred to contractors hiring someone for 8 hours who would be happy with $100 for the day.
Are you really suggesting that a post on cm actually represents what illegal aliens are paid?
 
  I don't know about your math, but My basic arithmetic skills tells Me that that is better than $12 per hour...tax free!
This $8.00 per hour buzz is getting Me sick and tired.  
I agree...I wont work for $8 an hour and neither do you.
 

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

That's incorrect.  The Fourth Amendment says "people," not citizens. 

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ORIGINAL: Moloch

Here in NY I can get arrested if I refuse to produce my ID to a law enforment officer.  Pretty sad state of affairs.

It is very sad indeed that my country has been reduced to this.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

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ORIGINAL: Moloch

Here in NY I can get arrested if I refuse to produce my ID to a law enforment officer.  Pretty sad state of affairs.

Moloch:
"You vill shcow me yer papers...vee know how to deal mit people like you...."
It is very sad indeed that my country has been reduced to this.
thompson

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Domiguy

Many are doing the work that Americans are unwilling to do. Maybe if you got your mouth off of popeye's dick you might understand that fact.

But I never mentioned anything about whether they were or were not taking American jobs...I just said that our gov't enables this all to take place...

your anger towards the Mexicans is simply misplaced.

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SinergyNstrumpet


I think you both have a point. We would be getting better pay to do those jobs that no one else wants to do if there weren't so many illegals here willing to do that work for so little.

My problem with blaming the worker is that they are not the one that profits most from cheap labor... it is those willing to hire them for substanially less than they would pay an American to do the same work.

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MzMia


I agree totally with what YOU said, julia.
I am sure there are billions of people in 3rd world countries that
want to come here and work or live.

I have NEVER blamed them, the government lets it happen.
Still trying to figure out how this thread changed from Ashley to illegal immigration.

Well dogs with bones I guess.

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ORIGINAL: Moloch

Sounds very unpatriotic do I need to report you to home land security?

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ORIGINAL: UncleNasty

An interesting thread. I have several comments relating to others post.


5) We don't live in a democracy. The founders would not have risked life and limb to form a democracy. They considered it "mob rule" and knew the mob would in short order vote away all the freedoms they had fought to garuntee themselves and their assigns. We are instead a Constitutional Republic.
Mob rule huh????  Are you suggesting that we as a people are just too stupid to know what we want?  Are you happy to have our president appointed?  You may think that you are not bright enough to make your own decisions but why do you think that the rest of are not capable of deciding for ourselves what is right and what is wrong...what is good and what is bad.  Democracy is not mob rule ...that is Rush the drug addict's opinion.  We have a constitution and a majority of 50% plus one cannot change it.  We have a Supreme Court to keep unconstitutional laws from being enforced.  Democracy is not mob rule.

Be well and live free,
Kinda difficult without democracy.

Uncle Nasty