Comment · Tue, June 26, 2012
Supreme Court Strikes Down Most of Arizona Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants
What they were answering
LOLN · 1 points
Illegal immigrants pay taxes but largely don't get benefits.
They can cost us due to lack of insurance and emergency hospital visits . The only reasons the schools get hurt is because they have to hide under the radar which makes them not show up in reports that are used to determine funding assistance from the state and feds.
It seems to me the solution is creating a new classification of worker documentation for such workers and to fix our healthcare system so we all pay into it and have lowered costs as well as incentivize preventative care.
The only argument against this I see is some vague thing about justice and fairness. And that is pretty goddamn meaningless to me when we're talking about the kinds of consequences to which you're referring.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
How do illegal immigrants largely not get benefits?!? They have use of our schools, hospitals, roads, fire, police, and even indirectly our national defense! And no, they do not pay taxes a lot of the time. The businesses that hire them usually pay them in cash under the table. Those that don't work for businesses on a cash basis, participate in identity theft to gain employment. In Arizona alone, over a million children are victims of identity theft! Not to mention illegal immigrants send much of their money back home to Mexico! In 2008 alone, $2.4 Billion was sent back to Mexico! Even the ones that steal identities do not withhold their income tax, causing real people who's identities have been stolen to get hit by the IRS! Illegal immigration has a very real economic and social burden to our society!