I can partly agree with you that certain parties might use false documentation as an excuse to get rid of immigrants, whether it's to project the illusion of being tough on illegals or to serve some other purpose.
BUT-- if the applicants have lied, they don't get a free pass just because ICE's motives aren't pure.
Then there’s the not so insignificant matter of the craven, cowardly and complicit Republicans in Congress who’ve so far shown they’ll go to the wall and beyond to defend Trump, and today’s developments won’t change anything. I’m sure Eddie Munster and Turtle Boy are already cooking up schemes with GOP higher ups to keep their god emperor safe.
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The Terrible Arguments Against the Constitutionality of the Mueller Investigation.
Written by none other than top Republican lawyer, husband of current Trump Trustee, the one, the only ... GEORGE CONWAY!
Oh man, she's gonna get fired.
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If Melania were stripped of her citizenship for falsifications, it certainly wouldn't be any skin off my nose. We both know that it's not going to happen, and more, that no laws are going to be set aside just because some people manage to circumvent them. So what's the relevance?
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I don't engage with that person most times. The Passive Aggressiveness is amazing. Also if you don't like Hillary, your reasons are bullshit, also But Bernie sucks too.
They're not an honest actor with this particular topic.
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Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes each year
The reality is far different. Immigrants who are authorized to work in the United States pay the same taxes as US citizens. And, contrary to the persistent myth, undocumented immigrants do in fact pay taxes too. Millions of undocumented immigrants file tax returns each year, and they are paying taxes for benefits they can’t even use.
The best estimates come from research by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, DC, think tank, which suggests that about half of undocumented workers in the United States file income tax returns. The most recent IRS data, from 2015, shows that the agency received 4.4 million income tax returns from workers who don’t have Social Security numbers, which includes a large number of undocumented immigrants. That year, they paid $23.6 billion in income taxes.
Those undocumented workers paid taxes for benefits they can’t even use, like Social Security and Medicare. They also aren’t eligible for benefits like the earned income tax credit. But the IRS still expects unauthorized immigrants to file their taxes, and many of them do so.
Filing taxes helps immigrants create a paper trail to show when they entered the country and how long they’ve been contributing tax dollars. Many are hoping it will help them get legal status one day. That has happened in past reform efforts, and one of the first requirements is usually to prove that a person has been paying taxes. That was the case for the undocumented youth granted temporary work permits under President Obama’s deportation relief program, known as DACA. With the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda, however, their chance of getting papers seems remote for now.
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It does not seem to have any effect on birthright citizenship.
Your hostility to the policy does raise the question of what it is that you want. What is the best immigration policy? Should the United States, as a nation, increase incentives to lie when seeking citizenship by offering no penalties for it?
So, taking citizenship away from people who lied on documentation to obtain citizenship is equivalent to the Nazis?
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