Rewarding illegal immigrants for illegally crossing the border, not paying income taxes and for utilizing our public services is not America’s goal. At the same time it is not possible to deport 20 million illegal immigrants. We do not know what effect deporting such a large number of immigrants would have on our economy.
What effect would converting illegal immigrants to Income tax payers have on our economy?
Possible Solutions:
- The United States makes available to the illegal immigrant community a four-year work visa, contingent upon securing employment (on the books, subject to withholding) and innocence of any crime other than illegally crossing the border.
- During this four year period, a process needs to be established that will take a number of factors into consideration, such as the applicant’s contributions to our society.
- At the conclusion of the four year term, a determination will be made to approve or deny the illegal immigrant’s application for renewal of the four-year work visa, application for another type of visa or to allow the illegal immigrant to apply for citizenship.
- Any illegal immigrant who fails to obtain this 4 year work visa would be deported.
An application for renewal of a visa should not be considered if the individual cannot show that they have been in good standing as a tax payer and resident.
A key question on immigration is: how can our government encourage immigrants to become income tax paying members of our society, when industries hire them as subcontractors rather than as W2 employees?
It is an accepted fact that 47% of American households do not pay any income tax. It is also acknowledged that a large part of our work force is employed in the residential services industries as subcontractors. This entire industry avoids the cost of a multitude of social programs, many of which are required by law. The residential services industries include residential remodeling, residential construction, painting, landscaping, lawn services, home cleaning, tree removal services and “in home” daycare and the list continues into many more industries.
The difference between employee and as subcontractor is defined state law. However this law is ignored because it is difficult to police this difference in the residential services industry.