I will not address #1 since I have no experience, however I doubt that you have carded all those folks. A good percentage of who you may term immigrants may be citizens. In the ER here (which I had the unfortunately experience of visiting a couple times this winter), there were probably 50% hispanics...but, then again, they live and work here. As American as you are. Again, I cannot speak for border states.
2. You proved the point you were trying to argue against, or at least it seems so. If what you say is true, they DO pay massive amounts of taxes and ss which they NEVER receive. In business, that goes into the "asset" column.
3. Means nothing at all. Hard working poor people all over the country use check cashing businesses. Lots of them in N. Philly and other poor communities. This may come as a shock, but people with no money don't need a bank acct.
AND, even though I don't claim money is not being sent back......I don't see the point. You can send money anywhere you want. I can send my money to my long lost children in Canada or Ireland. The engineer over here making 200K (from India) can send 3/4 of his money home to mom and dad.
I suppose you don't like thrift. But it surely is not a vice. All the original points stand...no one is claiming that this is a benign act (employers using labor and not checking, etc.), but at the same time you can't count one side of the equation. AND, if you really wanted to solve it you would push for legislation to do so instead of asking for a catapult so you can sling all the "illegal aliens" back over the non-existent fence.
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Originally Posted by cardiacpaul
LOL,
Forgive them Lord, they know not of what they do...
1)Walk into ANY ER in ANY "Border state"
2) for those involved in the "trades" industry, tell me, how many applicants do you get with 996, or 919, or 012 as the first 3 digits of their SSN? I have personally seen DOZENS in just the past year. Some of the worst copy work I've ever seen. 
3) park in the lot of any "check cashing" or Western Union office on a Friday afternoon. |