A Divide on the Payoff of Legalizing Immigrants
Granting legal status to the illegal immigrants living in one of Texas’ largest metropolitan areas would generate at least $1.4 billion a year in revenue for state and federal agencies, with Social Security and Medicare being the largest potential beneficiaries, according to an analysis by a Houston business group.
The report, from the Greater Houston Partnership, says that the untapped revenue would be accessible if immigration reform — one that allowed illegal immigrants the chance to work legally and pay taxes — was realized.
Jeff Moseley, the chief executive of the 2,100-member group, said such reform makes sense in the ...
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Joe Wilson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If they are already here and many critics claim that they are using health and other services without paying their share, isn't offering legal option a win-win?
Jose Gomez
Most people in Texas do not know but most illegal immigrants living and working in Texas are issued was is known as a TIN NUMBER ( Tax Identification Number). This is how their Income Tax is withheld by their employers. In addition to paying income tax, they also pay property tax, school tax, sales tax, gasoline tax, and all other taxes assessed to citizens. They work menial jobs that most people here in Texas refuse to take. Lets allow grant this folks "Legal status" thus eliminating the stigma that they are "Breaking the law" because they are here illegally.
All this rethoric is because history proves that Texas has always discriminated against the hispanics and blacks. Now Texas is harping about "Lets secure our borders" . What about those immigrants from China, Phillipines, India. Most of them are coming in through Mexico because they make it easier to obtain visas and once the visa expires, they stay here.
Rudy Gonzales
Bigotry and prejudice abounds and is alive in America. Romney and Gingrich are both not conservative, but bigoted. Republican Congressman David Rivera is expressing his bigotry and discrimination against those who are here and cannot serve in the military to attain a pathway to citizenship. Their tactic is to use one Hispanic/Latino against the others. Florida's Hispanic/Latino communities include Cuban, Honduran and other Central American peoples. Those who are here legal and vote have paid close attention to the ramblings of these generic TEA-GOP-Republicans and will take the bigotry spewed into mind when they vote. Romney and Gingrich have advertised to the Cuban community more than anything else, as this community is more Republican than the other peoples. American immigration policies are all across the board because the vast discrimination is towards those who have lived here in America, illegally, for more than ten years have deep roots and will not "Self-Deport" as was decreed by Romney. These fringed seekers of the nomination play to the lesser educated that immigrants have and will take their jobs. That is so false! The illegals I have spoken to are here and have been for over twenty years, are well entrenched in our communities, they still speak their language, take the jobs no American will take and have helped build streets and bridges back to FDR's time in office.
Hannah Katz
I guess someone is classified as a taxpayer, even when they are taking money out of the pot via the Earned Income Tax Credit, but they are still a drain on the system.
I bet Americans would take those jobs if the pay was right. And if we grant them amnesty, the illegal immigrants would refuse to do that work for low wages too. So the two bit employers would be looking for more illegals. Face it, the slogan of those employers is, "If I can't cheat, I can't compete." Another amnesty would act as a magnet for still more illegals.
gypsy314 ne
Cut all welfare and jobs and they will leave self deporting will save us billions and lives.
How can anyone offer amnesty to law breakers that have no respect for our laws that is crazy and will not fly anymore. We have try that already and all it did was bring everyone and there dog here illegally.
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Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama illegal aliens ,homosexuals and terrorist.
gypsy314 ne
Houston is one of the cities that harbor illegal aliens and should be punish once remove the traitor Obama and crew.
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Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama illegal aliens ,homosexuals and terrorist.
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January 31th, 2012
Fellow Americans, America is being brainwash and misinformed by the mainstream News media. Today they are working to place in the White House Obama or their GOP puppets that will use the poor illegal immigrats to get the Latino vote.
Fellow Texans, we has to fight this corrupt US Dept of Justice that is run by the criminal Eric Holder under the direction of the most corrupt President this country ever had. Fellow Texans we must stop this corrupt federal government and demand that they enforce our Immigration laws, protect our sovereignty and defend our Constitution. This corrupt Federal Government, fail the Texas and the American people by promoting the invasion of illegal aliens into Texas and the rest of our country, this invasion is the result of their ill policies, they are the ones that supply the Drug Cartels with arms to kill thousands of innocents Mexicans citizens and our own Border Patrol Agents and create the chaos in Mexico, they are the ones that protect the cartels and allowed them to pass their drug and operate in our country, they are the ones that give the order of not to enforce our immigration laws, they are the ones responsible for making us to pay for the education, medical and welfare of the illegal aliens.
Illegal immigration is a great burden to the American taxpayers; but we Americans should not blame the people that enter our country illegally, we should blame the corrupt politicians and the Mainstream News Media; for years this United States used the CIA and the special forces to overthrow legitimate elected governments in Latin America to take over their natural resources and exploit their human capital by getting these countries to support free trade agreements that benefit the US multinational corporation and the corrupt government of the host country, these people work hard and many hours for almost nothing to enrich the US economic predators. NAFTA destroy the agriculture in Mexico, creating a huge unemployment that is why they invade the USA and this corrupt government do nothing because that benefit the business sector with a cheap labor. So the question is who benefit from this illegal immigration and who pay for and suffer the consequences of this self created immigration crisis.
Fellow Texan, what is going to take for us to take action. Please join me in this war against this corrupt Federal Government corruption and mismanagement of our taxpayers money. You and I have responsibilities to rally for honesty in our system of Government and vote out of office all the corrupt politicians that contributed to this financial catastrophe and the impoverishment of millions of Americans. The mainstream media, for years hide the truth from the American people; they fail us and report half truths to protect this corrupt government, The Bankers and the multinational corporations.(Wall Street).
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"The partnership’s members pay dues ranging from $550 to $100,000. The higher dues are paid by executive partners, which include companies such as Reliant Energy, AT&T and ConocoPhillips."
Greater Houston Partnership, a Houston business group....... These are the Big Boys and their minions who need the illegal alien slave labor. Their paid mouthpieces have been spreading propaganda far and wide across Texas in an effort to convince citizens of their justification in hiring illegal aliens. The corruption runs from the top down to the employment gangs who recrute the labor in mass numbers. Human trafficing....an endless supply is what they need.
Tucano Fulano
It is hardly a coincidence Obama has created about 12 million unemployed American citizens while he admits to having at least 12 million illegal aliens living and working criminally in the USA.
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OBAMA AND THE WASHINGTON POLITICIANS ARE TRAITORS.
The traitors, Violated their oath and allegiance toward our country and our sovereignty, they consciously and purposely acted to aid the invaders by refusing to enforce the immigration laws and failing to secure our borders.
This betrayal of the oath and the trust and confidence, perpetrated against the American people is treason at it's highs form.
Fellow Americans, do your duty contact your Washington representative and demand the impeachment of Obama, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano; our border with Mexico is wide open and has become a major threat to the people of this United States.
The following are the facts:
1- Since Obama took office, he refused to enforce the immigration laws and secure our border with Mexico.
2- Mexico's drug cartels are free to operate in the USA; courtesy of DEA, the CIA, the FBI and the U.S. Dept. Of justice.
3- Mexico's corruption and drug cartels terrorist tactics, had created an exodus, Mexicans are leaving Mexico by the thousands, the states most affected by this huge migration from Mexico is Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California; Mexicans families enter the USA with visitor pass and over stay in the country, the schools and social services are affected by this huge migration and the cost of educating this new class of immigrants are the American Tax payers.
4- The main stream news media fail to report the truth to the American people. Most of the citizens of this country are not inform of the act of treason perpetrated by this corrupt government.
Fellow American, we must expose the traitors and demand justice for the people of this United States. Do not let this corrupt government destroy our country with their ill policies; we have a Constitution in this United State and laws that need to be enforce. Ours is a sovereign Republic, we elect our government to follow our Constitution and our laws not to be Dictators or puppets of the UN, the IMF, The World Bank or the ruling class “The multinational corporations, the world economic predators”.
We must strengthen the federal government by redirecting its time, energy and resources toward those objects for which it bears express constitutional responsibility. Our Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. The power not delegated to the federal government by the written Constitution is reserved to the states or to the people respectively.
We must stop the trashing of our Constitution and end the Obama's Nazism dictatorship type of Government.
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