>>>>>>From what I understand, many illegals already do pay taxes this is just going to mean the difference in how much taxes they pay. They will also be spending more which helps the economy. Some of them may even start their own companies and hire others. These things often have a sort of snowball effect.
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>>>>>Great, now we have illegal companies, run be illegal aliens, hiring more illegal aliens. Sounds terrific.
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>>>>>>As far as amnesty, why not? You said yourself they're going to be able to come up with some magical way to stop them at the borders, so it doesn't matter if new illegals are encouraged. They won't be able to get in anyway.
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>>>>>See my other response. There is something inbetween that realistically can be done, but not so happy-happy as you might want to see it.
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>>>>And in the meantime, maybe the ones here should be educated? ;)
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>>>Nope. If you are not legal, you do not get the benefits.
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>>Well, in that case, you can keep paying your taxes toward their upkeep with no end in sight.
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>Now you finally understand what pisses me off about it.

Oh no. I understood it perfectly all along. The part I'm having trouble understanding is why you don't want to deal with it in a practical and realistic way.

Saying they shouldn't be here, or that they should all be sent home is just wishful thinking and doesn't accomplish anything useful.

I imagine you don't program that way. When you are given somebody's lousy mess to maintain, I'm guessing that you don't sit around all day wishing the code had been better written, but that you get down to figuring out how to make it work.