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To: saveslivesbyday who wrote (204998)	5/29/2009 8:39:24 AM
From: The Reaper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

<Yet, their kids born in Ca are US citizens, with all the rights and privileges, including schools, health care, etc.> I'll see that and raise you one. I live in Tijuana at the moment with my wife as we wait out the legal immigration process. I know personally of two neighbors, Mexican nationals, whose kids go to schools in San Diego (actually Chula Vista School District). They use the address of an aunt or uncle or friend in the U.S. and the kids are educated free of charge instead of paying for a private school here in Mexico. I remember hearing at one time that the enrollment in Chula Vista public schools was somewhere north of 30% illegal. I can't remember the source or how valild I thought the figure was at the time.

To: saveslivesbyday who wrote (204998)	5/29/2009 12:09:47 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

No one wants to touch the 14th amendment. Certainly not Obama. Probably too late.

To: saveslivesbyday who wrote (204998)	5/29/2009 12:32:42 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

with Obama putting in the La Raza justice i don't think you'll get any help from DC.

To: saveslivesbyday who wrote (204998)	5/29/2009 3:58:13 PM
From: anachronist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Illegal workers pay a lot of taxes in California. First, they pay sales tax, because no one can avoid that. Sales tax is a HUGE revenue generator in CA, especially at the local level. Next they pay a lot of payroll taxes as well. They simply use someone else's SSN or tax ID and the funds are withheld from their paycheck by the franchise tax board. Employers of illegal immigrants can get in a lot of hot water if they don't withold income taxes, and since no one will claim them on a tax return, the state simply keeps them. On a national level, illegal immigrants similarly fund Social Security and Medicare benefits that they will never collect, not to mention federal income tax. Of course, since they earn what a lot of us consider poverty wages, their marginal tax rate is low. And although a surprising number are payroll employees, many are in cash only jobs and therefore avoid payroll taxes altogether. But the supposition that all illegal immigrants pay no taxes is wrong.