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skepticscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 07:13 AM
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29. Well, if they enter the country illegally
to begin with, how is that "trying to abide by our laws"?

Don't you think that the first requirement for a good potential citizen (or a well-behaved visitor) should be that they respect the laws of the country they're visiting or living in? And shouldn't that apply even to the laws that they don't understand, think are silly, think shouldn't apply to them, or are inconvenient to obey?
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  -Undocumented Immigrants Prepare to Leave Arizona The Northerner  Dec-11-10 10:11 PM   #0 
  - So where did the persistent notion come from  skepticscott   Dec-11-10 10:16 PM   #1 
  - I like butter but no salt...  GSLevel9   Dec-11-10 10:18 PM   #2 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Dec-11-10 10:24 PM   #3 
     - to be honest...  GSLevel9   Dec-11-10 10:40 PM   #7 
  - Because they were violating administrative law, not criminal law.  EFerrari   Dec-11-10 10:24 PM   #4 
  - If you're just here illegally, it's administrative, but  CanonRay   Dec-13-10 07:37 AM   #70 
  - +1  FrancisTreptoe   Dec-12-10 11:27 AM   #45 
  - Its all about the jobs.  dkf   Dec-11-10 10:31 PM   #5 
  - Undocumented workers already are paying taxes  pinboy3niner   Dec-11-10 10:40 PM   #8 
     - I didnt think they would file taxes under a fraudulent ID  dkf   Dec-11-10 10:46 PM   #10 
     - Yes they file taxes  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-11-10 10:52 PM   #13 
     - Well, if they enter the country illegally  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 07:13 AM   #29 
        - It isn't a criminal offense to cross the border without papers  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-12-10 08:56 AM   #30 
        - And if you were caught speeding  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 09:08 AM   #32 
        - Of course I would  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-12-10 09:21 AM   #34 
           - What you're arguing is  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 10:27 AM   #39 
              - Once again. It's not a criminal offense.  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-12-10 11:23 AM   #44 
                 - Why do you keep harping on the fact  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 11:32 AM   #46 
                    - I credited the trade policies.  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-12-10 11:38 AM   #47 
        - Actually you're quite wrong.  Lance_Boyle   Dec-12-10 11:59 AM   #50 
        - Come down and spend a week with me in Mexico  a la izquierda   Dec-12-10 09:17 AM   #33 
           - Thank you.  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-12-10 09:24 AM   #35 
           - +1.  superduperfarleft   Dec-12-10 09:58 AM   #38 
           - Please don't presume what I know and don't know  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 10:38 AM   #40 
           - Pollyanna? Please.  a la izquierda   Dec-12-10 10:48 AM   #41 
              - Yes, Pollyanna  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 11:41 AM   #48 
                 - No, we should not have an open border.  a la izquierda   Dec-12-10 11:54 AM   #49 
                 - I know perfectly well why  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 12:03 PM   #52 
                    - If I had the answers...  a la izquierda   Dec-13-10 06:27 AM   #66 
                 - Those aren't hard questions, they're just the wrong questions.  EFerrari   Dec-12-10 12:13 PM   #55 
                 - By "wrong" questions, you mean what, exactly?  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 03:14 PM   #57 
                    - I think I was pretty clear about the real choices at your disposal. n/t  EFerrari   Dec-12-10 03:21 PM   #58 
                       - Yes, you were  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 05:04 PM   #61 
                 - You know what? The conditions that lead to people  nadinbrzezinski   Dec-12-10 12:13 PM   #56 
                    - All I hear in all of this is a rant  skepticscott   Dec-12-10 03:23 PM   #59 
                       - You call facts on the real ground a "rant."  nadinbrzezinski   Dec-12-10 05:08 PM   #62 
                          - Uh, that's what a rant usually is  skepticscott   Dec-13-10 06:44 AM   #68 
           - yes, we forget about how poor live in Mexico. Thanks for the reminder  Liberal_in_LA   Dec-12-10 03:39 PM   #60 
           - And that's not to negate how badly the poor have it here.  a la izquierda   Dec-13-10 06:31 AM   #67 
           - the fact that people can just leave  TheFarseer   Dec-13-10 08:55 AM   #72 
              - Sign up to go foment revolution, then.  a la izquierda   Dec-13-10 12:48 PM   #74 
     - If they're on the books, their taxes are withheld.  aquart   Dec-11-10 10:53 PM   #14 
     - It is one thing to have an automatic withholding and another to file taxes.  dkf   Dec-11-10 11:00 PM   #19 
        - So they don't file and the fed keeps their money . All of it.  aquart   Dec-11-10 11:02 PM   #20 
        - The Government could easily cross reference things and they choose not to.  dkf   Dec-11-10 11:09 PM   #24 
        - Because they are making money off of them  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-12-10 08:58 AM   #31 
        - actually, the government is implementing a program to do that - e-verify  MH1   Dec-12-10 09:27 AM   #37 
        - Bless those angels, surely you wouldn't  Riftaxe   Dec-12-10 02:09 AM   #27 
        - I think with the e-verify program that 'blessing' will stop.  MH1   Dec-12-10 09:26 AM   #36 
     - You don't need a fake I.D. to pay the IRS  pinboy3niner   Dec-11-10 10:56 PM   #16 
        - Hmm. So these employers totally know then.  dkf   Dec-11-10 11:06 PM   #23 
        - Of course they know  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-12-10 12:07 AM   #26 
        - Do you file W-2 forms for your employees?  Riftaxe   Dec-12-10 02:34 AM   #28 
     - And how do they do that?  Confusious   Dec-12-10 05:10 PM   #63 
  - All 4 of my grandparents sneaked into this country...  Bigmack   Dec-11-10 10:35 PM   #6 
  - Same here  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-11-10 10:56 PM   #15 
  - Mine both came in thru Canada...  Bigmack   Dec-11-10 11:03 PM   #21 
  - My grandfather illegally through Canada.  aquart   Dec-11-10 11:05 PM   #22 
  - AZ is in for a big surprsie  KT2000   Dec-11-10 10:41 PM   #9 
  - The high costs of hiring Americans you mean?  dkf   Dec-11-10 10:47 PM   #11 
     - Yep  KT2000   Dec-11-10 11:26 PM   #25 
  - May as well just say Hispanics are preparing to leave Arizona period.  LAGC   Dec-11-10 10:47 PM   #12 
  - Whiter and poorer.  aquart   Dec-11-10 10:57 PM   #17 
  - I had planned to take my wife to Sedona, AZ to see the artists  coalition_unwilling   Dec-12-10 11:22 AM   #43 
  - A friend of mine who is Hispanic and 100% American was pulled over in Arizona this summer  proud2BlibKansan   Dec-11-10 10:59 PM   #18 
     - nope, no profiling going on there  WolverineDG   Dec-12-10 12:02 PM   #51 
        - What kind of fit did the judge have?  Commie Pinko Dirtbag   Dec-12-10 12:08 PM   #54 
           - the first kind  WolverineDG   Dec-12-10 05:26 PM   #65 
  - It will be interesting to see just what sort of impact ...  surrealAmerican   Dec-12-10 11:02 AM   #42 
  - no one to mow their yards or clean their houses  WolverineDG   Dec-12-10 12:05 PM   #53 
  - The business owners will be devastated....  MellowDem   Dec-12-10 05:15 PM   #64 
  - The American Dream is over for me too  LiberalEsto   Dec-13-10 06:50 AM   #69 
  - I'll go out on a limb here and say that if there is a sizeable Latino  xchrom   Dec-13-10 08:29 AM   #71 
  - illegal alien panhandlers...  OneTenthofOnePercent   Dec-13-10 09:15 AM   #73 
 

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