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| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
Yes, my parents are immigrants, but unlike the people coming here from down below... my father started out driving a taxi cab, than started up his own carpentry business. |
Most of the immigrants I've seen and met work/ed their asses off at car washes, cleaning houses, gardening, etc., just like your dad did. Of course there are always those that and are only here to cause trouble, but is there really a statistic that proves that most of them are like this, like someone mentioned earlier?
About getting social security numbers, yes, its very easy, go to Queens and you'll find the mafias ready to sell you these numbers, heck, you can even buy a Harvard diploma for like $200, but the SSN won't get you anywhere. It's mostly only used to get a job, such as cleaning hospital floors. You can't apply for welfare with those numbers, ppl are too scared of getting caught, and I believe it really isn't that hard to find who's SSN is being misused like this.
Illegal immigrants are underpaid, they don't pay any taxes that's true, but they don't get anything back either, so saying that your tax dollars go towards them is ridiculous.
Some advance when they win the green card lottery or eventually get residency when some law opens for a few months, but Latins in general do move up/like to move up.
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