Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder
by petronio on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:38PM
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Undocumented immigrants can get an ITIN, and many do use them to pay taxes. The IRS really doesn't care where you got your money from, so long as they get their cut.
Where undocumented immigrants won't be able to file their taxes is if they used a counterfeit SSN to be employed, but even in those cases they pay anyways through standard withholding. Most Americans don't know you can adjust withholding, nevermind undocumented immigrants.
Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder
by thruway516 on Friday January 26, 2024 @11:55PM
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I think its partly about making day to day existence hard enough in the hope that they will self-deport, without making the laws outright inhumane
Likewise I want them to get licenses if they can pass the driving laws test, and should be able to get insurance. I don't want to be hit (or hit and run) by an uninsured driver.
They and their kids should be getting the same vaccines someone with a legal right to live here does, under the same terms. This is basic public health that helps everybody.
This is 100% orthogonal to whether ICE should be pursuing and deporting this or that person. They current system makes the rest of us less safe -- and that's not even getting into the massive impingement on the human rights of law abiding folks due to the misincented immigration (and other) laws and their enforcement).