Why do illegal immagrants in America think they have rights?

Question

In my opinion if you are here illegally ,and are not a citizen , then you have no rights. You should not be able to recieve any benefits at the tax payers expense. Should not be able to drive or rent property .And Amnesty is wrong.

Why would we reward people for breaking the law and give them citizenship? This is our country , we make the rules. You dont get a free pass because you eluded border patroll agents.

Answer 1

When the U.S. Attorney prosecutes Border Patrol Agents for doing their jobs; putting them in prison while giving ILLEGAL ALIEN DRUG SMUGGLERS immunity they get the idea that they have rights. Assistant U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton committed this injustice, and shortly after the government entered into settlement negotiations with the smuggler. It is rumored that the 5 million he was seeking was settled out of court for 3.75 million dollars.

Answer 2

they should not have rights. and this crap about "The Europeans did the same thing" is false. Yes there were cases but it was not the epidemic that illegal immigration is now. It was the exception to the rule as opposed to the rule illegals are now...they break into my country, whatever the reason, and then have the balls to tell me how to run MY country and what I am going to do....F them.

My family was broken up since my grandmother and kids were not allowed in USA till my grandfather had come over, gotten job and housing. So don't whine and piss at me about "human dignity" and all that BS. It's ok to force the white people to obey laws and break up white families but if there is any hint of a color then all rules are suspended and everyone must donate $50,000 for the "human fund". Kiss my @ss


Treat as you are treated. They treat America like a joke and piss on our country so we treat them the same way and ship them all home or somewhere else at their expense. Might as well say the homeless have every right to break into a department store and live there because they are human.

Answer 3

They should have no right. I feel sorry for them and I understand why they would want to move to a better country.. but they have to do it legally.

If they do it illegally then they are just criminals like any other.

The reason nothing is being done is our weak politicians.. on both sides. i think all those rich lawyers, of which most of them are.. all have hired illegals in their households and don't want to give up anything. It is our government that is allowing the illegality to go on. At the expense of the American public , I might ad.

Answer 4

Because we give them the SAME rights as a citizen. I am not recommending they be treated like dogs as someone suggests. I am saying that they BROKE THE LAW. My wife is a legal immigrant. She had a ten year multiple entry VISA and could enter the U.S. any time she wanted to. We could have done it the illegal way and had her come over here and we get married, after our child was born apply for citizenship. Hell we could have received government assistance while she was here illegally. We did none of that. We went through the system the right way. It was the most expensive decision I have ever made.

For those of you who think we should just give illegal’s their citizenship and not deport them let me explain how the LEGAL way of doing this is. First, we applied for a fiancé visa. This took a long time and $500 non refundable. Even though my wife had a visa already they wanted this done. Then we had to pay to get married. My wife was not allowed to work for the first year of our marriage because the government wanted to make sure I could support her. Even though she holds a BS in engineering and could have a job in a heart beat we still had to wait. Then we had to pay fees for all the paperwork that is involved in processing an immigrant. One hundred dollars here for that paper and three hundred for that one. In the end, it was about $2000 a year in fees for the first three years of marriage. We also received a letter on a Monday that said we had to be in Chicago on Thursday to have an interview so I had to take the day off from work and go through a 5 minute interview there. In the end, it was the most stressful and frustrating experience I have ever been through. As a result, I am very mad when I hear illegal’s say that they deserve the same rights as I have.

The fact is people, they don’t want us in their country and they don’t want us to tell them how to treat people but when the shoe is on the other foot it is a different matter. They should have basic human rights but the same as me or you? I don’t think so. We pay taxes, defend our country and are productive members of society. What do they do except demand we give up our culture and accommodate them? If one of them is hurt when they are here I say patch them up and then send them back to their country of origin. I am tired of paying taxes for the free ride many of them enjoy. If they want to work in this country then I say fine there also. Just apply for a work visa and when you get it come over and work. The ones who are causing the problems have no interest in being a productive member of American Society. They are interested in the free ride.

Answer 5

You are 100% correct. If you are not here legally, you do not have the same rights as a citizen of the U.S. I do agree there are basic HUMAN rights they have, but NO rights in the U.S. What they do not understand is that human rights and citizen's rights are not the same thing. Human rights means that we shouldn't treat them like dogs as was suggested earlier, we should treat them as we would want to be treated as a human being. However, our government and our country OWES THEM NOTHING. They deserve no money, no voice in what is going on. They deserve the right for us to politely put them on a plane and send them back to wherever they came from.

Try going over to Mexico or any other country for that matter, and demanding the government there that you want money, housing, food, free education for your children, oh and I don't speak the language so you have to give me all these services in English. After they pick themselves up off the floor laughing, they will send you on a one way ticket back, politely of course.

Answer 6

For one thing, if they pump out an illegitimate baby on US soil, the kid is considered as US citizen, so the mother can collect benefits "for the baby". And yes, us working people that were born here have to pay for it. And the liberals think that's the way it should be. They always worry more about the rights of law-breakers than the rights of the law-abiding.

Answer 7

We should treat them with respect because every human being has the right to be treated as such but i do agree with you 100% that they should not be getting any benefits at our expense. They should not be treated as dogs but they should not be rewarded for breaking the law either. Coming to the United States is a privilege.... and they turned that privilege into "rights!." My in-laws came here to the USA as tourists but when they had over welcomed their stay and refused to go back, i lost my respect for them. Not only are they here illegally, they are working without a working permit. By letting illegal immigrants get away with this.... makes the USA unreliable.

Answer 8

Have you been to you local food stamp and welfare office, or government assistance office if so you can see that it is evident that they have more rights then we as Legal Citizens. My brothers and I are hard workers and we have been taught to work for what you get, and we do. However last year they found that one of my brothers was born without one kidney and needed and kidney transplant. He could not and is still not working, thank God they found a kidney, but when he went to see about getting help they told him that they could not help him and gave him one reason after another, however there was a line of Mexicans waiting for their food stamps and government help walking in and come out like crazy with their stamps in hand.

Answer 9

I absolutely agree with you. It is disgusting. Last spring/summer they marched on Washington, D.C. Why didn't anyone call the INS/Border Patrol and round 'em up and ship them back to Mexico/Central America?

I pay more than 28 percent of my income in taxes. What percentage do the illegals pay? I went to college and grad school nights and weekends and worked crappy, low-paying jobs for ten+ years to pay for my education. Now (in Maryland) the liberal state legislative is proposing that ILLEGALS be "entitled" to grants/scholarships.

Give me a break! ENOUGH already!

Answer 10

Like it or not, they think they have rights because they do have rights. Not the same rights as citizens or permanent residents, but some rights. The U.S. Constitution at Amendments 5 and 14 gives them a right to due process, among other rights. The Declaration of Independence, upon which we rely philosophically though it conveys no rights upon anyone, declares that "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights".

The founders said ALL of us get rights from God as a matter of being created (i guess "born" will have to suffice), and that these rights are "inalienable" (inalienable –adjective “not alienable; not transferable to another or capable of being repudiated”). Among those inalienable rights are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

While it was not giving an exhaustive list of inalienable rights, it fails to mention entitlement to welfare, food stamps, free education, free medical care, or permanent residency. I think there is some middle ground contemplated by the founders and embodied in the Constitution that is somewhere between "no rights" and "no liabilities".

I have no problem with undocumented aliens obtaining legal driver licenses if they meet the criteria (knowing the traffic laws, reading the signs & signals properly, adequate eyesight and demonstrated operator ability). In fact, the roads are safer if they are licensed and subject to sanctions for poor driving like the rest of us. Similarly, if they can pay the rent, they can rent a house or apartment. Neither of these things entitles them to remain in the US without a valid legal status, and if they buy a car or a house, they risk losing it if they are deported. Likewise, those who sell or rent to them risk nonpayment. Free public benefits are a different story.

Answer 11

Hopefully one day they will rise up and demand more rights of their own government so they won't feel the need to sneak over here and demand more rights of ours (doesn't make much sense, does it?).

Unfortunately we have a system set up that rewards them for this behavior.

I feel for the plight of the "poor huddled masses", but pity never makes a group of people stronger, only weaker.