Reply #134: I appreciate your post

[thinkingwoman]

and you taking the time to write it.

Thank you.

I can see your point about the don't pay taxes argument. I think, however, that the details provided in your post certainly refute other posts on this thread suggesting that all "illegal immigrants" are law abiding people.

If you're throwing around a fake SS#, you're breaking at least one law. If you got that number from somebody peddling numbers they've bought or stolen (ID theft), you're breaking another.

The pro-illegal immigrant camp need to drop the poor-little-illegals-that-never-did-nothing-wrong-to-nobody crap.

Oh, btw, a little anecdotal evidence that being white and european doesn't mean you get great treatment from the INS:

I personally know a family of 5 who came here legally, got their appropriate work visas, worked hard and yes, paid taxes with legally obtained ID numbers, enrolled 3 kids in schools and followed all rules and regs. INS couldn't manage to process their paperwork in time to keep them in the country. Several people had to petition our senators for help in expediting their case. They are from the Netherlands. Were they victims of racism? No. They were victims of a corrupt and crappy system.