what rights do immigrants have that residents or citizens dont?

Question

I keep hearing people make the argument that illegal immigrants have more rights than legal resident aliens or citizens. I'm curious exactly what rights people think they have that others don't.

Clearly not any of the rights reserved in Article IV or the 14th Amendment for citizens. Clearly not any of the protections from the 1st, 4th, 5th or 6th Amendment, which apply to everyone.

So, exactly what rights do Illegal Immigrants have that legal residents do not?
Oh, and please cite your sources. Saying "they can do X and legal residents cannot" is meaningless unless you provide some source other than rumor.

Answer 1

none, residents and citizens are the ones with the actual rights...like the right to get a drivers license, the right to have medical insurance, the right to own a home, the right to vote.

Answer 2

Illegal immigrants as do many poor people recieve emergency health care , that is a human right and should be. No they do not have the medical options that people who have insurance have. Some do have insurance and they do have an income. They come here to make an income.They do pay taxes out of their paychecks. The only thing is if they do something wrong they are deported.As long as they don't do anything wrong they won't be deported I don't see what the complaint is. Most have it far better here than in their homelands. Its why they came here.

Answer 3

US law distinguishes between immigrants and regugees admitted for permanent residence, and non-immigrants who are admitted for limited time periods such as tourism, study or temporary work. Immigrants are given access to public benefits that approximate those of citizens, but pending their admission to citizenship there are some restrictions. Illegal migrants are denied most benefits, although their children may attend school--not withstanding restrictive efforts in California--and they have access to emergency care in hospitals.

The rights and benefits of individuals who reside in the United States but are not citizens are subject to debate. The issue was initially raised in Texas when a local school board sought to bar school admission to children of illegal aliens, a decision subsequently overruled by the Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe in 1983. In 1994 California voters adopted Proposition 187, which denied educational and other benefits to illegal immigrants, and in 1996 Congress passed new welfare legislation that restricted legal immigrants from acquiring most welfare benefits. In mid-1998 Congress amended the legislation by reinstating food stamps to a quarter of a million children, elderly and handicapped immigrants if they had entered the United States before August 1996, when the welfare reform legislation took effect. Congress also agreed to restore Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits to 420,000 legal immigrants who had lost benefits under the welfare reform.

Not an easy question and much political debat is currently happening regarding this issue..

Answer 4

I don't think they mean rights as much as they mean advantages. Like immigrants the poor soles will get a better chance of getting scholarships than your average American. A job will be placed with the immigrant before the American because we have to help the poor immigrants. That is what they are talking about. In my own place of employment I see the immigrants get the full time position because they need benefits not because they know or can do the job better than the American. Which to me is absolutely ridiculous, you should get a full time position based on your knowledge and ability.

Answer 5

I can only think of the 'right' to leave this country if it becomes profitable for him to do so from a taxation perspective.

If a resident alien creates a company and that company becomes extremely successful, the tax bracket can be rather high

Corporate Income Tax Rates--2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000

Taxable
income over / Not over / Tax rate

$ 0 / $ 50,000 / 15%
50,000 / 75,000 / 25%
75,000 / 100,000 / 34%
100,000 / 335,000 / 39%
335,000 / 10,000,000 / 34%
10,000,000 / 15,000,000 / 35%
15,000,000 / 18,333,333 / 38%
18,333,333 / ................... / 35%

So lets assume his company is in the 38% bracket, he can legally up and move himself and his company to any country that is more advantageous for him from a taxation point of view. A United Statesian on the other hand can not do that. If a United Statesian was to become a citizen of another country for tax advantages he must continue to pay taxes in the US for ten years.

That's the only 'right' that happens to be an advantage for a resident alien over a citizen that I can think off.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Illegal Immigrants get nothing legally. The system got them in the hoock. Now everything is tight up with social security, no social no help unless if you go and seeck help in a church.
Before Government used to help them but now the illegal Immigrants are in serious trouble, remeber most of the money goes now to keep up Irikies healthy.

God have mercy!

Answer 8

All I know is I am a permanent resident born in Mexico and living here for all but two weeks of my life and all I can't do is vote. I pay taxes, have a Social Security card, a green card.... As far as I know I don't get **** except less of a line coming back into the country at the airport

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Answer 9

What rights?... well...

Things, like free medical care and other goodies have already been mentioned.
What needs to be clarified though is that it's not true, that we are not getting that simply because we are not poor like them.
The main reason is that we have documentation about our income and assets, and they do not. So, on paper, they look poor enough to get all the freebies, even though many americans are more poor then them, and aren't eligible for any help.
A family of three, with both parents working for minimum wage is poor like dirt, yet not poor enough to get free food, free housing or free medical care. If employer provides medical insurance to them, they HAVE TO pay for it, outo of their pockets, while their illegal counterparts get all the medical help they need completely free.
This is NOT about being poor, but pure and simple - about being illegal.

Here is another right that they have, and we do not
Some states already let them pay in-state tuition for colleges, and more are on the way... US army soldiers, and officers, stationed in those states and attending college are paying out-of-state tuition, as well as their children. They don't have this right, that illegals do. People, woking (legally) in a state, and living in a neighboring state, just accross the border have less rights than illegals too in this respect - even though, it is their tax money that fund the state colleges, they still have to pay out-of-state rates if they wish to send their kids there - while illegals are being treated like residents. People, who worked and lived in a state their whole lives, and paid their taxes for decades, and then retired and moved, have to pay out-of-state tuition for their kids, and illegals do not. An american citizen, who simply lives in a state, without being able to confirm that with documentation, is required to pay an out-of-state tuition, but people, who are even not residents of the COUNTRY, forget the state, are treated better.

Also... their kids are getting special attention in our public schools. They get language classes, one-on-one tutoring, special education, individual education plans etc. Try getting ANYTHING outside the curriculum from a public school for a regular amercian child, see how far you can get.

I could come up with more... but what's the point? Enough has been said. Sapienti sat.

Answer 10

Illegal immigrant are taking a privilege that legal residents do not (nor should not) have. The privilege of breaking the law. They also want the continued right to keep on breaking the law without fear of the consequences of breaking the law. If you want a society based upon law (not anarchy) then those laws needs to be upheld. If you think the law is unjust then change it (don't break it).