Thread: How Do They Afford It? (The Illegals)

How Do They Afford It?

by Linda Schrock Taylor


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I have come to the conclusion that somewhere, somehow, someone is providing financial backing to the millions of illegal immigrants pouring into America. Nothing else makes sense, especially when we see so many non-citizens living so very far from their native countries.

My family loved to travel, so every couple years we went on a lengthy car trip. We had to carefully save money prior to each of these vacations even though we traveled on-the-cheap, usually going to...oh...homes of favorite relatives! We saved on motel and food costs; saw new places; enjoyed time with aunts, uncles, and cousins; much like the characters in The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant, Stephen Gammell.

We did take our grandparents on a trip to Washington, D.C., and we traveled to New Orleans while my uncle was completing his PhD at Tulane University. (Such fun! The five of us squeezed into married student housing with the six of them!) However, other than these two trips, we stayed east of the Mississippi, vacationing wherever my uncle, Dr. Eugene Sneary, was studying or teaching. We could never have afforded to journey further west; certainly not to our southern border. Settling permanently at our final destination? No way; No how!

Vacations involving southern border-crossing distances were not even discussed and, of course, my family would have had neither the financial means, nor the inclination, to pull up stakes and move to another country. Additionally, we all would have found the idea – of sneaking into a nation where we were unwelcome – reprehensible! We would have considered such actions as unforgivable violations of the rightful citizens of the receiving country. My father would never have chosen to show such disrespect for others, and he would never have modeled such awful behavior for us.

In an attempt to gain a better idea of what actually is involved in the process of becoming an illegal immigrant, I decided to create a scenario in which I could try on such a role for size. In so doing, I hoped to come to a conclusion as to the feasibility of such a venture. I decided that, in my thoughts at least, I will violate the rights of my neighboring Canadians. I will sneak across their border; travel about their country with neither passport nor permission; seek work in their country without a work permit. If I succeed in accomplishing all of this, I will begin demanding that Canada change its laws and policies to better accommodate myself, my best interests, and my druthers. (I do wonder if I will have the stomach for even thinking my way through such an odious venture, but I will give it a try.)

Therefore...I believe that I can earn more money in Quebec, than I can in America, and I decide to proceed with my plan. Not only should I be able to make enough money to support myself, but also to cover housing, utilities, transportation, food, plus essential and not-so-essential nonfood items. Additionally, I want to be able to send much money home to my family in America. I hope that, since I do have a BA plus experience in the Education of the Deaf and other areas of special education; and an MA plus years of experience teaching English, reading, language, and spelling, that I should fare better than an unskilled immigrant.

First, I must cross the border and that will be the easiest part. Of course, I have been in Canada innumerable times and know how to cross legally, but this time I need to enter the country illegally. I have the information that I need because television documentaries have been so helpful. They have shown unmanned booths at isolated crossing points. Customs agents have been interviewed as to details. The difficulties (impossibilities) of patrolling long stretches of wilderness and/or miles of coastline with just an agent or two, neither one able to be all places at all times, has been explained.

I easily locate such a place and simply walk around the booth, crossing the border on the side opposite the phone and camera. At those locations there is an honor system. Custom agents expect that all, including illegal crossers, stop and phone a customs station, that is many miles away in order to request permission to cross the border. The system probably works fine for Canadians and Americans, but come on, ... for Illegals?

In moments, I am in Canada. I did not even need to pay a courier or guide for navigational or sneaking in services. I am thankful for that, since I would never have the thousands of dollars charged for such services. Remember, I am going illegal because I have no money and am looking for work.

I, of course, have been unable to pay someone to meet me on the Canadian side; to whisk me, unseen, deeper into the countryside, or into the anonymity of a large city. Luckily for me, Canadians are used to American tourists; speak the same language; use easily-converted money that is quite similar to ours. Some people will even accept U.S. dollars in place of Canadian ones.

I cannot take a bus or train since I need to save the little money I do have in order to survive the first few days in Quebec. I will have to hitchhike. Canada is quite a safe country and I have often traveled that way, although that was waaayy back when, and then I was traveling through Israel, Greece, and Europe at the age of 30. Now, nearly double that age, I am sure to find the trip most tiring.

In fact, I am already growing weary, and I have not given much thought to the next problem to be faced – language differences! Quebec is a French speaking country. I did study French in elementary, junior high, high school, and college, but that was loonnngg ago. (Ypsi High, circa 1966, is unimaginable to most, especially my students. I may as well have sailed with the Pilgrims, as far as they are concerned.)

Language will be a problem, and is for Illegals who arrive in America with minimal-to-no-English. I experienced this when I asked a group of Illegals, in their shiny new black VW convertible, to turn down the radio. After my attempts to communicate only created more confusion, I had an idea.

"Illegals?" I asked, with a stern, suspicious expression on my face. They understood that word, as well as my sign language: point-to-radio-with-one-hand; gesture slitting-my-throat-in-frustration with the other. The late-teens/young adults immediately turned off the radio and drove quickly away from my street. Yes, French could be my waterloo, as English was for them. I have no idea how to say "Money Order in US Dollars" in French.

Why is zero-English not the way to recognize Illegals? – to employers who illegally employ them? To landlords? To money order clerks? To banks and credit card companies. Come on! I know that the public schools grow ever weaker; ever more damaging; but...public school students DO learn English, even if they speak it ungrammatically, and rarely use any vocabulary above a third-grade level. If the young dudes I met actually graduated from an American high school, then our schools are many times worse than even the most severe critics have noted. THIS IS AMERICA. THIS IS AN ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY. United – we speak one language while sharing a varied cultural, but a defining political heritage; Divided we now and always will be if this language and cultural cleft is allowed / encouraged / forced to widen.

(Why is Congress so weak; so lax; on the issue of illegal immigration? Are they in need of new taxpayers to fill the gaps left by abortion and ever-growing welfare rolls? Without Illegals, will the proverbial shell game end?)

But, returning to my illegal adventure...I have absolutely no idea how to go about getting an illegal work permit; undeserved drivers license; fake social security card, nor any other kind of government identification. I wonder if Canadian laws are as foolish – I mean, "well-meaning and generous" ... as Michigan's. Here, an unmarried couple with one working full time, receive $279 in food stamps per month. They will get that amount until their earnings rise to $1,500 a month. Yet...another person, fifty-five years old and handicapped; unable to work; receives a small disability check and only $10 a month in food stamps. $10.00!! (Any further questions about why Michigan is in ever-deepening financial trouble?)

I am not sure how to proceed as an Illegal: how to find housing; cash checks; have utilities put in my name. How do I find a job? Do I go around whispering (in lousy French) to anyone who looks like a teacher or principal, "I will teach English and reading for a reasonable price?" Maybe I should locate a sizable farm and offer to hoe potatoes, or tap maple trees, until I can develop some connections or meet someone who knows someone whose neighbor is the brother of someone who used to work in the field of education?

How long will this process take? I am moving to Canada because I have no money! How can I possibly find housing, pay security deposits, get back and forth to work, and still feed myself until I find a job and receive a first paycheck?

This brings me back to the point of my article. I would not have the money to sustain myself during this process, nor, I believe... do the poor, uneducated immigrants! My family could only afford, every couple years at the most, to visit relatives for two weeks. My father was a supervisor for a large natural gas supplier. So...either money actually grows on trees in specific poor countries, or each Illegal immigrant has a sugar daddy in place of, or in addition to, a guardian angel.

I know that I have neither the financial means, nor the skills and knowledge, necessary for success in such an expensive endeavor – i.e., sneaking into another country; finding employment; dealing with a very different culture; managing life using an unfamiliar, or very unpracticed, language. I know that my family would have faced the same but greater problems, had they wanted to move all of us to a foreign land to begin a new life. Such trips are just not within the financial means and skills of most families.

Well, I have not even been able to think my way through the financial, language, and fake identification world of illegal immigrants. Why would a MENSA member be stymied by a complicated challenge that millions of peasants succeed in pulling off? How do Illegals make it over the hurdles and through the woods to jobs, money, money orders, IDs, and ... still have the gall to stand up for their "Rights(not!)" in the foreign country of their choice?

Because...somewhere, somehow, someone is bankrolling illegal immigration. If this is difficult to believe, take pen in hand and plan for your family's migration to a non-English-speaking country. Attend to every detail; anticipate problems that will be encountered; decide how much money your family will need; discover how many "connections" you must have. Be sure to include the $7,000,00 +/– (per person?) you will need for greasing palms and/or paying for the services of an escort at each border.

Oh, wait a minute! I just heard that Illegals are now able to obtain financing in order to purchase homes. Maybe I should not be so hasty. If Canadian law allows similar deep intrusions into the fabric of their society, maybe I will rethink my decision to cancel my trip. I wonder if Canada might offer subsidized mortgages to Illegals? Paid Down Payments? Maybe a HUD, of sorts?

There is no reason that I have to go to Quebec. Job-hunting would be much easier in the English-speaking parts of Canada. I might be able to stay with one of my Canadian friends – just until I have my furniture shipped up from America, of course.

Come to think of it, I have long dreamed of living along the Athabasca River. James Oliver Curwood, my favorite Michigan author, wrote Kazan, and Baree, Son of Kazan. My Grandmother Sneary read these books aloud to my father as the family spent evenings around the kitchen table; around the kerosene lamp. I did the same for my family. The books are unforgettable and the memorable locations certainly do call to me.

Maybe I should call a real estate agent to ask about loan requirements and find out what kinds of homes are available near Lesser Slave Lake. I had better call my best 7th grade girlfriend, too, and have her ready the guest room in anticipation of my arrival. Aren't I lucky? She lives right in that area!

June 29, 2007

Linda Schrock Taylor [send her mail] is an educational consultant, homeschooling mom, and public school special ed teacher. She is available for presentations, inservices, and workshops.

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Many of these people do have money when they leave home. I have read numerous stories in the Miami Herald and Sun Sentinel about illegals and what amazed me was how they had thousands of dollars to pay smugglers. If they were so poor there than how did they have $5,000 to $6,000 U.S. to pay a cayote. Many Americans don't have that kind of money sitting in the bank. Then there are many illegals who have jobs waiting for them as soon as they arrive. Once here many live in shacks on farms or in overcrowded homes or condos.

Many of the hispanics that came in before 1986 set up jobs and safe houses for other illegals. Also when an illegal has an anchor baby, they get housing, food stamps, etc and write their families that they need to come on over. Encouraging illegals only encourages more. Allowing anchor babies only encourages more illegals to have anchor babies. I cannot prove it but I suspect the Mexican government even gives them seed money since they know that there is huge return on investment.

I have often wondered if the Mexican government gave them money and sent them on their way here rather than keep them in jails. Castro emptied out his jails during the Mariel Boat Lift so who says that Mexico isn't doing their version of it.

Many of the illegals have little or no education. It really is amazing as to how much they are able to take from this country. They all seem to have more connections than the citizens do!

I thought Mexico gave them how to booklets that covered it all. Others from elsewhere network with others who advise them on everything.

When I see them driving new big SUV's where I work knowing that they make less than $10/hour, not to mention spending in the stores and the newest fashions and fat children that are obviously overfed. I do wonder where they get all this money on the low wages they make. Must be that 40 to a house thing.

This was sent to me in my email. It's probably true.

Jose & Carlos are panhandling on the street. Jose drives a Mercedes,
lives in a mortgage free house and has a lot of money to spend.

Carlos only brings in 2 to 3 dollars a day.

Carlos asks Jose how he can bring home a suitcase full of $10 bills
every day.

Jose says "Look at your sign. It says: I have no work, a wife and 6 kids

to support".

Carlos looks at Jose's sign.

It reads "I only need another $10.00 to move back to my country".

Originally Posted by lsmith1338

When I see them driving new big SUV's where I work knowing that they make less than $10/hour, not to mention spending in the stores and the newest fashions and fat children that are obviously overfed. I do wonder where they get all this money on the low wages they make. Must be that 40 to a house thing.

They have numerous, illegal ways to get exactly what they want....ummm, I mean, are entitled to.

There is the welfare and food stamps collected using one set of identity documents while using another set to work.

There is credt card and loan fraud....again, multiple identities for such purposes.

Also, they have figured out that they can use other identities to file returns and collect the refunds.

All of the above can, and are, carried out in more than one state.

To further make your blood boil.....most of these so-called "poor" immigrants? Guess again. About a year or so ago, the Arizona Republic published an expose of sorts explaining that the great majority of illegal immigrants are not poor, but, rather, middle class citizens with "means" who have only come here to take advantage of what America has to offer. Read: Take us for everything they can get their hands on. I've been looking for that article and if I ever find it, will post the link

And from what I've seen at the property I manage, that has merit. Many of our tenants own stores and other businesses back in Mexico, they own homes, ranches, and have bigger bank accounts than most Americans have these days.

For them, it's just no big deal to do what they do. The reigning sentiment is that they are entitled to it as "compensation" and we're stupid enough to allow it so are pretty much getting just what we ask for.

I see them with houses in Miami. A house I can't afford to buy. Their anchor babies are their income for it. Most white people have one or two kids but Hispanics have 4 or 5. If they get foodstamps and welfare for the child and have 4 they could easily get over $2,000 a month in hand outs. That money is considered guaranteed income and between that and fake ID they get mortgages. Now many are loosing their homes because the property taxes and homeowners insurance costs are so high. The foreclosure rate is unbelievable in South Florida.