Some inconvenient facts about immigrants that MAGAs hope you ignore:
•Seeking asylum is a legal & human RIGHT, protected by the US Constitution and the UN Convention on Refugees (to which the USA is a signatory)
•Both documented AND undocumented immigrants have LOWER crime rates than US Citizens (and usually higher vaccination rates too)
•Undocumented immigrants pay MORE in taxes ($12B annually) than Trump ever has or will (and get none of the tax benefits)
RT if you learned something new!
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@QasimRashid All true. The self-destructive behavior of Republicans truly astonishes me.
Latino immigrants are extremely diligent and eager about paying their taxes, buying a home, paying property tax, etc. Unlike most USians, who complain and avoid taxes as much as they can.
On the other hand, it's all about power. Republican politicians know that a large segment of the population responds strongly to xenophobia and hate, so that's what they push in the hope of taking over.
@shuttersparks @QasimRashid True. And many businesses rely on immigrant labor, including human-rights-abusing bosses of illegal immigrants.
CEOs and factory farms are all too happy to profit from the cheap immigrant labor—jobs that entitled white people don’t want—while donating disproportionately to anti-immigrant (and anti-union, anti-environment, anti-science, anti-education, anti-women, xenophobic, antisemitic, anti-democracy) GOP candidates.
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I've wondered that too.
I'm not sure what others think about this question, but it seems to me that to not recognise a person born to parents who were born in a country as indigenous seems a little arbitrary, maybe even elitist, if everyone is descended from immigrants / refugees.
But I do believe some sort of distinction needs to be made between later colonisers of a country (and their descendants) and the indigenous inhabitants (those in the country before the later colonisers arrived) even if just for the sake of seeking to recognise and undo the damage done by the later colonisers to the indigenous inhabitants.
As far as the maga stance on immigration / refugees, though, if everyone ('indigenous' or not) is essentially an immigrant / refugee or the descendant of an immigrant / refugee, then that just makes the maga stance all the more absurd!
Didn't learn something new, but boosting anyway, bc it bears repeating
@QasimRashid I always have to educate people on the taxes thing. I've had so many people repeat that to me over and over and I'm starting to lose patience on it. THEY PAY TAXES. And they don't even get to vote. Undocumented immigrants give this country SO much and get so little in return.
Conservatives, on the other hand, take and take and take and give nothing in return. They're absolute grinches.
@QasimRashid Not that I really care about any of this, but your third point doesn't really make sense, nor prove anything.
A bunch of people together pay more taxes than one man... either you provide an income comparison or that single information is pretty much meaningless.
Frankly I'm a bit confused: I'm not American so I really don't know how this works.
How can undocumented immigrants pay taxes? I would imagine that since they have no documents they would not be allowed to pay taxes to the government.
Are you referring to VAT or is it actually possible for people that are not allowed to be there to pay taxes? Why would they even pay the taxes?
@NoTwit @QasimRashid
This looks extremely strange to me, how can you just make up a social security number? When you go to pay taxes it would be clear such number is not associated with anyone.
I guess you may impersonate someone else who is American, in that case you'd use his SSN and pay taxes for him; this only works unless that guy decides to start working and in this case taxes are not forfeit as that guy will receive social security benefits. Taxes will be forfeit if this American is dead but his death was not declared; but I can't believe this is very common.
What I don't understand is why would they go through all these complications to pay taxes, you could just work illegally at that point and pay no taxes. I guess the only point for paying taxes is getting a job with a contract; but that's pretty much useless to you since the contract would be invalid. I guess you'd only do this if you cannot find a job without a contract or if jobs with the contract pay considerably more.
Sure, they'll be paying VAT, but that's not really what we think about when we're talking about taxes.
What I'm asking to @QasimRashid is basically this: I know nothing about these things but something seems off.
How do you know these things and how does it make sense?
@QasimRashid those are convenient facts about immigrants. Sadly a far broader than MAGA (including outside US) constituency wishes to believe and act otherwise.
Here's a moral fact: migration restrictions, including limitations on right to work, constitute international apartheid, and abolition is called for https://www.apartheid-international.org/manifesto-abolition-international-apartheid.html
@QasimRashid As far as I know, asylum is one of the sources that feeds the modern state. Initially religiously motivated, state institutions later intervened in a society characterised by blood feuds and constituted their claim to power through it: we determine who is judged and how.
Whoever sees himself as Christian and upholds a strong state must perceive asylum as his noblest duty.
@QasimRashid Didn't know about the vaccination rates but I'm not surprised.
Either way, Greg Abbott deserves to sit on Legos for a week straight
I do believe the Democrats forget too. I remember how many walking migrants have been turned back, how many Haitians were lassoed--by Democrat-led institutions. Too many rage against one side of the machine, when both are a big problem.
@QasimRashid For the record, I'm not in the USA. So I don't know how it works there. And, my points were only about taxes on income.
From my experience living in a couple countries, you NEED a valid national identity along with a valid work permit (of course) to be able to pay taxes.
@QasimRashid @dgoldsmith Americans really have astoundingly short generational memories. Every single person in America, excluding the original peoples, is either an immigrant or is descended from immigrants, refugees, and slaves.
America’s culture IS immigration, but we have decided to adopt unfettered capitalism in its place. Those who are against immigrants are denying their own cultural history in favor of capitalism’s “fuck you, I got mine” mentality.
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