My argument is thus: Unless they're gonna un-document me, and leave me the fuck alone, they should streamline the procedure of documentation for a segment of populace who are coming here anyway.
Maybe I'm jealous.
I understand your sentiment.
I'm not jealous. They risk being caged and dumped God-knows-where, and they work damned cheaply, fearing being turned in. They probably see some pretty poor working conditions, too.
Yes and no. For example, a legitimate small place owned by a legal guy, often they'll hire their compadres by word of mouth. Kinda like the paki's staff the store with family and friends. The owner is on the books, and says he works the whole place from open to close. He doesn't technically get taxed on his own wage, he gets taxed on his profit of running the store, whatever he declares.
To an illegal, a few bucks an hour is better than none, and its cheaper for the employer. If he can pay 5 off the books, and seven-fifty to a taxed worker, which is better for him?
When I lived in my former city, which had a high concentration of foreigners from varying countries south of Texas, it was littered with small stores and businesses. Stores that sold bread and smokes, supported by the few surrounding blocks. There were discount furniture businesses, mattress stores, body shops, used car lots, carpet cleaners, fast food storefronts, and tons of ladder trucks for home repair. The community supports itself. A lot of which is off-the-books transactions, cashbox style. In other words, agorism - largely cash based, but not entirely.
I think the "picker" and sweatshop stereotype is largely overblown, if not entirely obsolete. A lot of those guys are transitory, making their way to a destination, where they'll be absorbed into a more reasonable and more permanent sub-culture of the economy. If they're hanging out front of Lowes looking for work, they probably won't be there next year. Not 'cause they got shipped back, but because they found a nitch.
I was taking a cab ride a few months ago, black driver, older dude who had a Bill Cosby sort-of rap. He said "Lotta Mex around here, 'eh? They own a lotta fuckin stores, man. Blacks been here since 1850, Mex since 1950, and the blacks don't own shit. You know why that is?" and I said I didn't, even though I did know his answer... he said "Because the fucking mexicans will work their balls off, and the blacks won't." I guess anyone can understand why I didn't want to say that to him, but he said it. And its pretty true, when it comes to small business city stuff. When you're on the dole and you work, you wreck it. Your apartment is no longer subsidized, your daycare is no longer subsidized, no more foodstamp allowance, and your total income actually becomes
less when you have a legitimate job. It doesn't pay to work - everybody's heard that statement about a thousand times.
As far as getting shipped back, theres an informal policy here with the state cops. If they pull over a car of illegals, they'll let 'em go because its a paperwork shitstorm, ICE has to get involved. As long as they're not drug mules, they can go.
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Now... before someone drops the hammer on me and says I hate beaners, thats not true. I don't fucking care what they do. I'm worried about
me. My taxes, and what is expected of
me. I'm really not thrilled about paying into a trillion-dollar infrastructure that is floundering and
pretending to work on a "problem", when they really don't know what the fuck to do. Its an unsolvable problem if they continue playing the game the way they are. Hiring more and more cops and agents, who respond to drug crime and drive around projects with clipboards trying to take a headcount. Legitimize the situation, document the fuckers, put a turnstile on the border and take their fucking thumbprint, and be done with it.
We're all supposed to be equal in this country, and I sure don't feel like theres a whole lot of equality happening, if thirty-odd million people can dodge the system and I'm paying upwards of half my paycheck to something that I don't benefit from.
I like to think that if more people really analyzed where their aggression lays, they'd perhaps realize they don't actually have a problem with the "goddamn mexicans", what they have a problem with is the goddamn system that is fucking them over because they don't know how to deal with a relatively simple problem, and creating different policy will fuck over a few million white guys in a multitude of uniforms. Its no different than the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, you've also got the whole structure designed to deal with immigration and its various problems, and it costs a fuckin' lot of money to run - and messing with it would put a whole shitload of people out of work.
And I'm tired of paying for it. 
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