Chipping Illegals

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[QUOTE=Fear Itself]
Because illegals are less likely to complain to state labor authorities when an employer jerks them around.
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So you disagree with ralph124c?

[Fear_Itself]

[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl]
So you disagree with ralph124c?
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You will have to be more specific.

[Rhythmdvl]

[QUOTE=Fear Itself]
You will have to be more specific.
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Oops, my bad.

Ralph quoted and responded to the following question:
Will the American kids do the same work for the same wages as the “illegals”? If so, why won’t the contractors hire them?

With the following answer:
The reason is, the illegals will work for 30-50%-because they are not paying taxes.

I disagreed with that answer, quoted it, and posted a couple rhetorical questions to highlight the irrationality I perceived in Ralph’s statement.

You then quoted me, and substituted a new rational for Ralph’s original contention. I wasn’t sure if you were merely adding another possible response to the initial “why aren’t kids taking those jobs” question or if you were also dismissing Ralph’s response that “the reason is, the illegals will work for 30-50%-because they are not paying taxes.”

[Nava]

[QUOTE=Sage Rat]
If GPS tracking units became small enough to implant irremovably into, for instance, the brain, would chipping illegal aliens as they are caught be a method for significantly reducing illegal immigration? Is there any international law by which such an operation would be illegal (presuming that the process was 100% safe)?
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The first thing that came to mind was “coyote” clinics offering to take the chips off. I know you said irremovably butttttt… well, lots of IDs are supposed to be unfakeable, for example.

[Cyberhwk]

[QUOTE=Fear Itself]
Amen. Better than jailing them, however (which only burdens an already overcrowded penal system), would be applying federal forfeiture laws like they do against drug lords. Seize their property, vehicles, factories, inventory, real estate, lock, stock and barrel. Not only would the illegals deport themselves, but it would be a self-funding operation.
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Yes, I’m sure they’ll be a shoe-in for reelection after the government starts boosting family businesses.

[Der_Trihs]

[QUOTE=ralph124c]
The reason is, the illegals will work for 30-50%-because they are not paying taxes.
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Some pay taxes.

Illegal immigrants can file taxes by applying for an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN, designed for foreigners living here legally but now widely used by illegal immigrants. Last year, the Internal Revenue Service issued an estimated 1.2 million tax identification numbers – the vast majority of which ended up on tax returns, up from roughly 838,000 issued in 2004.

The IRS, which has issued more than 9.2 million tax identification numbers since 1996, does not ask whether immigrants are legal. “Our job is to make sure that everyone who earns income within our borders pays the proper amount of taxes, even if they may not be working here legally,” IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said in an e-mail.

[QUOTE=Nava]
The first thing that came to mind was “coyote” clinics offering to take the chips off. I know you said irremovably butttttt… well, lots of IDs are supposed to be unfakeable, for example.
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Or if they ARE unremovable, jamming the signal one way or another. We obviously aren’t talking about some sort of multimegawatt transmitter, after all.

[QUOTE=Cyberhwk]
Yes, I’m sure they’ll be a shoe-in for reelection after the government starts boosting family businesses.
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Which help show how this is about race and class, not the law. No one cares if the illegal immigrants are abused or killed, because they are breaking the law and thus deserve it; but when the generally white and richer employers face financial repercussions for breaking the law - well, that’s just unacceptable. It makes it hard to take all the ranting about illegals breaking the law puts them in the wrong seriously.

[Fear_Itself]

[QUOTE=Cyberhwk]
Yes, I’m sure they’ll be a shoe-in for reelection after the government starts boosting family businesses.
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Easily avoided when there are plenty of high value targets available:

The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.

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Howard Industries is in Mississippi’s Pine Belt region, known for commercial timber growth and chicken processing plants. The tech company produces dozens of products ranging from electrical transformers to medical supplies, according to its Web site.

According to Wikipedia, privately owned Howard Industries has a net worth of over $1 billion. Take down a few of those, seize their bank accounts, factories, inventory, real estate, vehicles and put it all on the block, and the word gets around fast. Don’t even bother with mom ‘n’ pop cafes and motels.