Should illegal aliens be given 25 years of hard labor for breaking the law?

Answer 1

That's tough to answer since my ancestors were, in part,

1) traced back within one generation of the Mayflower
(the original illegal immigrants and the first "boat people")
2) Irish immigrants
3) Native Americans

I wonder what most Americans would do if their family was living in poverty and the best way to care for their children - provide better clothes, good food every day, adequate medical attention, better education, etc was to slip across a border and do menial work. If I felt that was my only viable choice, I think I'd break the law.

How many people break the law on a daily basis just driving to work by speeding or driving recklessly or failing to follow basic traffic signals and signs? What's the justification? They're late .. everyone else does it .. it's not that important .. and so on. What's the risk? Injuring or killing someone else .. someone else's father, mother .... and for what?

What's the justification for illegal immigrants coming here? They want a better life, they want to provide for their families and children. They want adequate food, education, health care. A better standard of living, and so on. What's the risk? Hmm ... fewer people cleaning your houses, fewer janitors, fewer people gathering food in fields ... is that really a risk?

I think we Americans need to show a little human compassion and understanding on this issue. Just because we're a few generations further removed from our own illegal immigrant roots doesn't give us the right to be so quick and harsh in our judgment today.

I don't endorse all of the latitude being suggested for illegal immigrants, but I do think they should be given the chance to work, become citizens, become tax payers, and earn the benefits that citizens deserve. Wholesale deportation is not feasible, nor is it compassionate.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Answer 2

I think you're full of shi*! Illegal workers work harder than your mom, and dad, oh wait hold on, and your self.. for half of the money that you're currently making. People like you make America be the puny country that it has already become. I can't even believe that people have already forgotten that our Nation the great United States of America was founded by a BUNCH of Immigrants who were searching for a better life, a better life that these poor people are now working so hard to achieve. If you're so ignorant to have forgotten where YOU'RE family and you are coming from than you shouldn't even call yourself an American.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT? They have already been thorugh too much: discrimination, hard labour, hate, underestimation, etc. Are YOU, the person who posted, trying to incitate some sort of slavery? or create so harmful thoughts? This is United States' society speaking ladies and gentlemen, beware we never know how much hate and anger can they show.... And this is just ONE American person, imagine the millions who think this way? I wish life teaches you to be reasonable, HUMAN and more flexible. I pity you and your kids. Should an american citizen be given 100 years of hard labour for driving drunk? Thats breaking the LAW!!!

Answer 5

illegal aliens are human ****** beings i cant believe that people show so much hate to someone thats just looking for a better life and freedom from opression... no i dont think they should get 25 years thats way to harsh, I think they should be given a citizenship test and if they can pass it they can stay.... after all most devout americans cant even pass the citizenship test if they can pass it then they deserve to be an american... its ridiculous to hate someone so much when you have never had to live in the conditions they have had to live with... not everyone has the freedom and a life without being oppressed like americans have, we take our freedom for granted and dont think about others... im tired of everyone being so prejudice.. everyone deserves a chance at a better life with better oppurtunities...

Answer 6

No, Most of them are good hard working people, but they have broken the law. Unless and that's a good point, let them work for the next 25 years for free. I would drop it to 5 yrs, but they need to learn how to speak English, And quit waving the Mexican flag!!! Pay taxes, Have a legal ID so they don't rip off Social Security and our Welfare systems.

Answer 7

No; they already do hard labor for the cheats that hire them. (Did you ever consider that there wouldn't be so many people "sneaking" into this country if there weren't so man rich S O Bs paying them slave labor wages to pick produce, clean, watch children, etc.?)

Why do I detect so much vehemence against these people? I think that the gov't. has stirred up this hornet's nest to keep us from looking at the poor economy, the outrageous gas prices, the unwinnable war we are involved in, and whatever other "junk" they are into right now.

And what did any of these people ever do to hurt you? Don't give me that crap about taxes and welfare etc. Our taxes are used for lots stupider things than to help fellow human beings have a little bit better life. (And it ISN'T better than ours, believe me. No one gets rich on welfare.) Without the migrant workers, most of whom are "illegal", we'd be paying $5.00 for a head of lettuce, and rich people's kids would be unattended and their houses dirty and their lawns overgrown!!!!

Answer 8

No, they should be sent back where they came from. Why should I have to pay to keep them alive ? Food, clothes, education, gym, counseling, they have it better than most people. They certainly don't deserve to be treated so humanely. It costs the government $30,000 a year to house and feed each prisoner. I don't want to pay to reform people that never should have been here to begin with!!
We can't even take care of our own in this country. We have no business trying to save the world when we can't even help ourselves and the condition of our country is so destitute.

Answer 9

Good reason to bring back the chain gang. They could do a lot of work for 25 years. Things that come out of state's budget like sewer-streets-parks-ect. They don't mind I hear, doing jobs others hate.

And in return-they can get basics-medical-food -shelter. And we get return on their work.

Answer 10

No.
The employers need to be fined and/or incarcerated. The people need to be able to sustain their-selves in their own lands...agricultural investments and whatever it takes by any and all means necessary to stem the flow...worldwide.
Not just on our continental borders.
Incarceration of the workers wouldn't be the thing to do. Just send them packing with a freeline sack of toothpaste; Durham; comb..etc..along with some coins from their national currency...
and
a peanut butter sandwich on rye,
with a McDonald's jelly packet...
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