Why do people feel we should give all to the homeless and nothing to the illegals who want to work?

Question

I'm a little confused. Why is it that people feel that homeless people who have had every advantage given them in life, first and foremost being BORN here and schooled here and with all the same opportunities you and I have had to build a great life and achieve something deserve to be helped more than a starving Mexican family who risks their very lives to come here for no more than the opportunity to work hard and succeed?

I'm sick and tired of people in America wanting handouts to survive. Most people who are homeless are so because they CHOOSE to be! I have very personal experience with trying to help the homeless. I'm not saying this is true of ALL of them but most are unmotivated, uncaring, complacent people who have the Eeyore syndrome (woe is me).

By the way, it's also ILLEGAL to live on the streets. Why don't we look at this CRIME the same way we do with disgust at the CRIME of someone crossing the border to survive?

MANY illegals DO pay taxes! They contribute to a system that they can't withdraw from. How do the homeless contribute? Do they pay taxes?

Answer 1

I completely agree with you.....I work for the courts and I know for a fact there are many resources, both federal and private entities that are out their to help the homeless, but MOST refuse the help, they just prefer to live in the streets.....I have yet to see one illegal or Hispanic panhandling in my border city and yet I see many white Americans begging and living on the streets....GOOD POINTS....

Answer 2

And the illegals don't need handouts to survive? If that's true why are they being given everything? If US citizens had a setup so sweet we could eliminate homelessness for all but the few who actually choose to live this way. The first guy's answer is quite true and even the illegals know that. The pro-illegals are a little slower, because as citizens they have been taught to hate the homeless. Do you know why there are no homeless hispanic illegals? Because they are given priority in low income housing, jobs, and home loans. We can't have news cameras showing pictures of homeless hispanics to the world as that would make us racist and cruel. And we simply ignore the homeless citizens hoping they will go away. Did you know that there are homeless women and children here too? Do you think they chose that for themselves? There just isn't much left over to help our own people while we meet all the needs of MILLIONS of illegals.

Answer 3

Here's the answer: Illegal immigrants are here illegally.
The U.S. Congress adopted immigrationand naturalization laws back about 1791,but some where along the way they mysteriously disappeared as announced on the evening news during the Clinton Administration.
The laws provided ways for people to enter the U.S. for work,education and to live. Some homeless people chose to live on the streets and some have no choice ( you need to read some of the news stories about these people to know why).
With american companies moving out of the U.S. and into Mexico and other countries,illegal immigrants shouldn't be a problem for us,but they keep coming anyway.
They get food stamps and medicaid and other help while U.S. citizens can't even though they worked and paid taxes to support these programs.
I have been denied jobs for the simple reason that I do not speak spanish,I can't get get food stamps or medicaid because I make too much money (so far less than $6,000.00 gross this year and that is less than I made last year).
I don't get social security because I am still too young and employers that pay a decent living wage won't hire me because their insurance companies say I'm too old and it would cost more to insure me.

Answer 4

You seem to be very judgmental of people born in this country that have become homeless. There are many reason for homelessness - loss of job,bankruptcy, death of the breadwinner, veterans that can't deal with some of the things they saw or were abandoned by family while they were serving.
Lets throw all the homeless in jail.Mass roundups may get the ACLU out but who cares - Problem solved they are off the streets .Now the tax payers will know their money is going to bigger jails.
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It is easy to sit and have a holier than thou attitude. Yes there are many homeless with your Eeyore syndrome but there are also many that have been pushed aside for so long a hand out is all they expect.

Now you can chock this up to the ranting of an anti-immigration basher. You would be wrong but it might make you feel good about yourself. I have many friends that came to this country LEGALLY and a large number that served in the military.

Illegal immigrants deserve nothing for breaking the law . They deliberately snuck into this country knowing full well they were breaking the law.
Do they care? No.
Will it change anything in their home country? Yes
They will no longer be there to be a financial drain on their government.
Why do you believe their country changes nothing in the policies?

Answer 5

I have personal experience with the homeless as well and I'd rather give to them then illegals. At least the homeless at one point contributed to the fund that they are now taking from. I am not saying that they deserve a handout, but they deserve it more then illegal aliens who haven't contributed a penny to the system.

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It's illegal for illegals to pay taxes. If they steal a SS# and the company that hired them tries to pay the taxes for that stolen SS#, the governement won't accept the money. Illegals DO NOT PAY TAXES.

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I have to add one more thing. Once an illegal has a child in this country all of a sudden that child is eligible for benefits. While that child is a legal resident of this country, now the mother, father and any other illegal siblings get the benefit of that one child. So illegals DO draw from a system that they DON'T contribute to.

Answer 6

This is a tough one. While I agree that many homeless people got that way due to bad choices, some are mentally ill and dont know it because they havent been diagnosed yet. It makes me sorry for them, but you cant always tell why someone is homeless.
I think that immigrants dont REALLY want to "succeed" as much as to make a quick, easy dollar.
I think the handouts should go to the homeless, but only to help them, to either help them beat an addiction, or to get the mental help they need, and then to help them get a steady roof over their heads and a job (with anything from an interview suit, skills training, or even giving them a simple job as a janitor in the DMV or something)
For immigrants, I feel it should be easier (maybe less expensive) to become a citizen. I think most stay illegal because it is easy to get a job and live 8 men to an apartment, and it is tough to go through the immigration process

Answer 7

The $1.3 billion in costs incurred by Arizona taxpayers is comprised of outlays in the following areas:

Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in Arizona and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Arizonans spend approximately $820 million annually on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings.

Health Care. Uncom-pensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state’s illegal alien population is now estimated at about $400 million a year.

Incarceration. The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in Arizona prisons and jails amounts to about $80 million a year (not including the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).
The illegal alien population pays some state and local taxes that go toward offsetting these costs, but they do not come near to matching the expenses. The total of such payments might generously be estimated at $257 million per year.

The fiscal costs of illegal alien do not end with these three major cost items. The total costs of illegal immigration to the state’s taxpayers would be considerably higher if other costs such as special English instruction, school nutrition programs, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were added into the equation.

The homeless are not all homeless by choice and neither are all illegal aliens good hard working people.Besides first and foremost the homeless are legal Americans.And its not against the law to be homeless,I dont know where you got that information.My money goes to the homeless everytime.Take care of Americans first !

Answer 8

They are breading the law by crossing the border, and it is against the law for them to also be working. Most homeless have already paid into the system. It is not our responsibility to take care of Mexico's illegals it is Mexico job. And I have also had experience with the homeless, a lot are single mothers and the children especially in Calif, where housing is so high, our people come first not illegals. And I am sick and tired of illegals coming here and going to the welfare office and admitting they are illegal and asking for food stamps in their children's names because they are considered citizens, all they need is one anchor kid.

Answer 9

Pamela v. how dare you compare an American to illegals. the homeless have a damn good reason for being homeless. have you ever been homeless.if not shut up. i have with 3 kids. i was alone. so don't come on here in immigrations and rant about homeless people.and the illegals don't pay taxes if they are illegal.

don't worry i will remove this as soon as i Post it. i know you like to report people who don't agree with your sorry ***.

Answer 10

i'm sorry but i don't agree with you at all, my opinion is illegal is illegal, there is no justifying that! people should come here the right way, and then there would not be a problem. and as far and paying into a system that they can not draw from, that is how is should be because to draw from the system is a right, and illegals have no rights here in this country other than the right to life.