If working for cash makes you a criminal then there are a lot of criminals in the usa. SECURE THE BORDERS, CUT OFF BENEFITS then after a few years have a look at the illegals still here.
If you don't report it and the IRS finds out, you will go to jail. It is a FELONY.
Do you work for cash under the table? Do you not report it to the IRS?
Do you carry around fake identity cards? Do you use someone else's social security card? Have you purchased a fake driver's license or a fake residency card?
Do you drive a car without a license, valid registration, or insurance?
Did you sneak into a foreign country and ignore all the laws of that country?
Do you favor giving a pathway to legalization for all the people who have committed all of the above crimes?
Wouldn't you call giving such a pathway to legalization to such criminals "Amnesty"?
So what you are saying is that we secure the borders (which does nothing about the ones who are here), cut off benefits (which they are not legally getting now anyway) and then after a few years "have a look" at the illegals that are still here (in other words the criminals who have managed to continue to work illegally after the border is secure) and then let these master criminals have a shot at legalization.
Haven't we been told by our government that the border IS secure?
Haven't we been told by our government that illegal aliens are NOT getting benefits?
So if we just leave these people to continue to commmit their crimes of tax evasion and identity theft for a few more years, that THEN we can welcome them into America as we do the immigrants who went through all the hoops to come to America legally?
Is that the ticket?
Any illegal alien in this country has violated our law simply by being here. As soon as they work for pay, they violate our tax code. It is impossible NOT to either take payment under the table OR to falsify W2 data to include SSN.
It is impossible to enroll their children without SSNs. It is impossible to collect earning income credit without falsifying SSNs. It is impossible to drive without either doing so without a license or lying about one’s nationality, SSN, etc. It is impossible to get water, electric, medical care...all of the above WITHOUT lying.
All of the above a violations of the law.
Additionally, as one of the lawyers frequenting Free Republic, P-Marlowe is correct about “permanent resident denied citizenship” creating a class of people permitted to be here but denied the freedoms of this country. The courts would declare that some form of serfdom or slavery so fast it would make your head spin. Remember, these are the courts who claim battlefield captures have their rights violated by not being tried in our court system with our protections....just because they are here.
Surely, you understand now that ANY push that offers ANYTHING but deportion for illegals is actually misrepresenting what eventually will become a path to citizenship.