Reply #164: Let's also not forget the IRS, the SSA, Local and State Governments... [View All]

[BlueCaliDem]

...all feeding off the "undocumented worker wages" trough.

Undocumented workers either use a family's social security number (brings in additional social security money that will never be collected on--hence the huge SS surplus), or they use a legal Federal Tax ID number (extra $$s for the IRS), and then there are those unscrupulous employers who wanna save on workman's comp, and other taxes while getting long, long hours of labor for a pittance.

The problem is far more complex than most people know, because the fact of the matter is, the ONLY people who rant and rave against "illegal immigrants" are people who don't profit from them, and who don't understand that the undocumented workers are the real victims here.

Until we clean up the local, state, and Federal government, and penalize unscrupulous employers with hefty fines to help pay for the return of the workers to their native countries, we shouldn't seek instant gratification to placate our sense of "right and wrong" by demonizing those who are the real victims here.

We should attack the problem, NOT the symptoms.