Immigration Proposals - Time To Act
The big issue in the US Senate about illegal immigration in the United States have so far produced nothing in results. While most of these bills are pending or scrapped, the wave influx at the US Mexican border still continues to grow daily with hundreds or even thousands of people from South America trying to get a shot for the opportunity to live and work in the United States. Could we blame these people ? I guess so. But who can stop people from going to the Land of Opportunity when the system of its immigration policy is broken and its borders are open. Its an open invitation plain and simple. Unless the US Government reforms its present system and provides strategic plan of strengthening its borders there will be no stop for this exodus.
The Amnesty
There are about 12 million undocumented aliens inside the US and the government is not doing anything about this. The Democrat Senators have been proposing bills to find a solution to the existing problems while the Republican Senators have been killing it again and again. I have to agree that these undocumented people that are already here should be legalized. There can be regulations to regulate their legalization and I can’t see a reason why it can’t be implemented. There are a lot of good proposals from the democratic side but the republicans, especially Mr. Jeff Sessions, is so actively against. Try working at one of the Mcdonalds chain for a month or better at any construction company or landscaping firm and work with them. Find it out for yourself. In some places take the illegal aliens off from work and you’ll see a dead economy in just 1 month.
The Taxes
These illegal aliens work and get their pay checks on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Let us say Juan is working in a fast food chain as a dish washer earning $7.50/hour on an 8 hour shift coming to work daily as given on his schedule. He gets paid on a bi-weekly basis. Let us see his payroll and its deduction. (Note: This is not an accurate payroll it is just meant to show details)
Juans Payroll
Per Hour Rate - $7.50
Hours Worked - 80
Gross Amount - $600
Federal Tax Deduction - $108
State Deduction - $56
Medicare - $9.76
Social Security - $87
Net Income After Deductions - $339.24
Ask yourself where does this taxes go since Juan is an undocumented illegal alien and cannot file a year end Income Tax Return ? Does the IRS Federal, State Taxes and Social Security accounting can’t suddenly use a calculator that an overflow of lets say out of the 12 million illegal aliens, the workforce is 8 million heads multiplied by the figure shown above. Geez !!! Where does that money go.
I guess its time to resolve this immigration issue once and for all. The democrats are continuously finding ways to make an implementation. We hope the US House of Senate could get their butts together and make this working as well as the US Congress. Both Democrats and Republicans should stop party politics for a while and look at some avenues to make this bill working. It will be beneficial for the US economy as a whole.