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A Sept. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a post on X, formerly Twitter, that points out supposed benefits for people living in the U.S. illegally.

“18,000,000 illegals don’t have to pay taxes, but you do,” the post reads. “18,000,000 illegals don’t have to pay rent or mortgages, but you do. 18,000,000 illegals don’t have to get vaccinated, but you do.”

It was liked more than 3,000 times in seven days. The original X post was shared more than 10,000 times in nine days.
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Our rating: False

Experts say immigrants who lack permanent legal status pay rent, mortgages and many taxes just like citizens do. They also are subject to the same vaccine rules that govern citizens because those requirements are set by workplaces and schools and have nothing to do with immigration status, experts say.
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Immigrants lacking permanent legal status pay the same sales and consumption taxes that other citizens do, and a significant number of them have federal and state taxes withheld from their paychecks, she said.

While they do not have Social Security numbers, they may file their taxes after obtaining an Individual Tax Identification Number, according to the Internal Revenue Service. People who enter the country illegally pay nearly $12 billion each year in state and local taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

A report by the Bipartisan Policy Center found immigrants lacking permanent legal status collectively subsidize citizens through the tax system because they pay many of the same taxes but are not eligible for many benefits – including refundable tax credits, Pell grants, student loans and nutrition programs, according to the report. They paid about $12 billion more into the Social Security system than they took out in 2010, according to the Social Security Administration’s most recent figures.
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"We have never heard of any willingness by financial institutions or private landlords to exempt unauthorized immigrants in blanket fashion from making mortgage or rental payments," Mittelstadt said.

And there is no difference between vaccination rules for legal U.S. residents and those who entered the country illegally, Clemens said.

“While some organizations such as employers or schools have vaccine requirements, those requirements apply to all people employed or enrolled there, regardless of immigration status,” Clemens said.

the United States is being invaded by Mexicans migrants who are bringing deadly fentanyl into the country.

undocumented migrants have almost zero responsibility for the fentanyl smuggling crisis.

In fact, most of the fentanyl entering the United States is brought into the country through legal ports of entry, including airports. More important, most of it is smuggled by U.S. citizens.
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The Republicans are simply lying when they link illegal migration with fentanyl trafficking: According to U.S. government data, 86.2% of felons sentenced for fentanyl trafficking are U.S. citizens.

Even more telling, a Cato Institute study found that only 0.02% of people intercepted while trying to cross the border illegally were found to possess fentanyl.

There is an explanation for this: Undocumented migrants crossing the border know that they face a serious chance of being stopped and searched by U.S. border guards. That’s why most fentanyl traffickers are U.S. citizens who enter the country through legal border crossings and airports, where chances of being searched are much smaller.

And yet, despite these well-known official statistics, an NPR‐Ipsos poll showed that 60% of Republicans believe that most of the fentanyl entering the country is smuggled by undocumented migrants.

Why not?

Abstract

Suicide by enslaved people had the potential to expose the contradictions of slavery in colonial British North America. Those contradictions can best be comprehended first by analyzing the competing meanings acts of self-destruction and, second, by situating slave suicide in the comparative context of other accounts of self-inflicted death by early Americans. Some stories of slave suicide accentuated similarities between blacks and whites by appealing to masculine ethics of choosing death before dishonor, a theme that resonated with the Anglo-American elite. Yet, if some accounts of enslaved peoples' suicides reflected a set of reasons for choosing death that were shared across racial lines, others confirmed differences based on race and class. Such appraisals distanced the meanings of slave suicide from those of free Europeans, and sustained the disarticulation of suicide and slavery that had begun in the slave trade. Additionally reports of slave suicide also contained critical estimations of masters, a theme that became more pronounced over the course of the eighteenth century. In these ways as well, stories of enslaved people's suicides presented Anglo-American observers with a host of competing, contradictory, and charged messages and had the potential to unsettle the acceptance of slavery and assumptions about enslaved people.

“We are being conquered,” Miller said to Fox News’s Jesse Watters. “This is a complete resettlement of America in real time. It took hundreds of years, going back long even before our founding, going back all the way to the earliest days of the colonies in America to slowly build everything that we have.

“And now we have millions of people coming in from different cultures and different ways of living and different belief systems. They’re going to take those belief systems with them to America,” he continued. “So, a generation from now, I am telling you Jesse, people will not know the country that they are living in. These consequences are permanent. Unless there’s massive large-scale deportations by the millions, it will be irrevocable.”

Stripped of the incendiary rhetoric, this is really just a definition of how immigration works: People move to another country, bringing the culture of their homeland. In fact, Miller implicitly acknowledges that America was colonized by white people who emigrated from England—with “belief systems” that were, needless to say, different from those of the people already living in North America.

Of course, countless millions of others have since come to America “from different cultures and different ways of living and different belief systems,” but Miller isn’t one to let a few basic historical facts get in the way of his narrative. He’s simply opposed to the nonwhite people immigrating to America today.

This pretty much highlights how it is flat-out logically impossible for WNs to win the ethical debate. If they go with the position that migration is wrong (which they need for criticizing migration by "non-whites"), then they cannot avoid the conclusion that "whites" wronged "non-whites" first, and hence have no authority to complain. The only logical way to avoid incriminating themselves is to go with the position that migration is not wrong, in which case they have no reason to complain. Either way they are screwed.

Don't forget all the WHITE EUROPEANS were "illegal" immigrants

Miller quite conveniently forgetting that his ancestors immigrated from Belarus in 1903.  Oh...I forgot...it's okay if you're WHITE.

talk about poisoning our blood look no further than t-rump and miller

Steve Miller is a jew

rightists claiming that if we are opposed to a wall to keep out immigrants from the country, we should "similarly" be opposed to walls to keep out immigrants from our own homes also. This is, of course, nonsense. Being opposed to a wall to keep out immigrants from the country merely means we want immigrants treated with the same standards that we treat natives in terms of freedom of movement. And, in general, we do not let natives into our own homes either.