Sick of moms who call their boy child "my little guy." |
Not the PP, but you clearly do not get it. Slavery and segregation were legal, while abortion was illegal. So laws can and do change over time. Our immigration laws have changed multiple times. Who knows what the law will be in 20 years? I am not against immigration, legal or illegal. They are seeking the same opportunities my fore fathers did (who came here before there was a "USA" and therefore no immigration laws). I know that illegal immigration does hurt some - like legal construction workers who don't get hired because they want to be paid more than an illegal. My response? Go into an industry that pays more. Construction work (most of it) is manual labor that requires little skill, and therefore is (and should be) low paying. Illegals also pay many taxes - they rent apartments and homes, so property taxes are paid for through their rent, they pay sales tax on almost everything they buy, gasoline tax... all that is missing is income tax. And most make so little, they wouldn't have any income tax. To get financial assistance, you need a SSN. They don't have one. So more than likely they are not getting any government assistance. |
You are incorrect and misinformed. Many illegals do get government assistance...by way of their anchor babies. The child is considered a US citizen (I strongly disagree with this) and as such is given a SSN. The parent can apply for aid for their children which can include welfare, public education, etc. Illegal aliens also have access to free healthcare. It's no wonder our health care system is in such a stand state and many hospitals are in the red. It's because illegal aliens flood the emergency rooms, provide fake names, SSN's etc and get free healthcare. |
What does "many" mean? Have you actually seen this happen, or are you just choosing to believe that "many" people do it because Lou Dobbs told you so? |
What does "many" mean? Have you actually seen this happen, or are you just choosing to believe that "many" people do it because Lou Dobbs told you so? |
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/apr/most-illegal-immigrant-families-collect-welfare http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16985&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1017 |
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Not the PP you're responding to, but do you really not think this happens? |
I don't believe it happens in enough numbers to warrant the panic over this issue. |
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FAIR is not a reliable news source. I'm just going to leave this here: http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/cost-of-illegal-immigrants/ "...a 2007 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office examined 29 reports on state and local costs published over 15 years in an attempt to answer this question. CBO concluded that most of the estimates determined that illegal immigrants impose a net cost to state and local governments but "that impact is most likely modest." CBO said "no agreement exists as to the size of, or even the best way of measuring, that cost on a national level." |
Fine. Let the laws be changed as was rightly done regarding slavery and segregation. That doesn't change the fact that the illegal immigrants are breaking our current laws. Your point doesn't make sense. There is a difference between seeing that those individual currently living in our society (e.g., slaves) be treated with human dignity and respect and rightly be granted their freedom and enacting laws to require such and saying that we will openly ignore our laws regarding immigration and allow anyone to enter without restriction. |
My Boss who thinks just because her 12 year old kid has ADD excuses the daily lies. Not to mention when he doesn't finish his homework(which he lies about) he then stays home from school... |
Get your head out of the sand. Illegals aquire SSN quite easily. It's called stealing SSN's. Hear of identity theft? Sometimes illegals go by many different names, a fact. |
You are correct and this does happen everyday all over the country. Unless you work in the ER, social security services, welfare services etc. you would not have a clue as to what is really going on. Working in case management I can say that services are readily available to undocumented residents and the one's who get put on the back burner and have to go through red tape to get services like home care, are our elderly citizens. |