What is your thoughts about illegal aliens demanding to be made US citizens?

Answer 1

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. America love it or leave it. Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Leave it Now. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 2

Here is what I would do.
To avoid deportation for ever and become a citizen.
1. Pay $10,000 per adult in a household and $2000 per child under 18. (Illegal has to MEAN something)
2. Learn to speak English and do so when in public leaving native language for home.
3. Or volunteer to serve a minimum of w years in the US military for fast track to citizenship for self and spouce.
4. Take classes besides ESL to learn skills beyond picking strawberries or lettuce to speed up process of citizenship.

Guest workers who arrived previously and are illegal but are productive and contributing will have priority over newcomers. Those committing crimes at any time during the period from arrival to citizenship will be deported immediately as will their families.

Some say that 10 grand is too much. Is it too much for a Coyote to get them over the border? They can get a loan. If they don't pay it back than they are deported without hope of return. Incentives to work. Children born of parents who are not citizens should not necessarily be citizens. That should be determined on a case by case basis by INS.

Answer 3

"Illegal" aliens should be deported. Before that can happen, "illegal" must be defined. Currently, resident aliens can apply for a 6-month work visa. After the time allotted expires, they must return to there country of origin and renew that visa. Once an alien applies for permanent residency they cannot return to their country of origin until a decision is reached. If they do, and are caught, they cannot apply for a work visa for 10 years. At this time, the process for making a decision on permanent residency takes a minimum of 2 years. Until these problems are resolved, there are two classes of "illegals". The short version of that is, No. I do not think that illegal aliens should be eligible for US citizenship.

Answer 4

Although I don't see them as criminals (just people wanting a better way of life), the US society has made laws regarding illegal immigration. According to the law they commit a crime when crossing the border illegally.

I have gone through the legal process and am now working a job . I have a legal status! According to the law, I'm NOT a criminal. According to the law, I can legally apply for US citizenship - but I prefer to remain a legal resident of this country.

Simply demanding citizenship should not be allowed. All must go through the legal process! If you're saying illegals are demanding citizenship, they are outright not respecting your laws and you should act!

Answer 5

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Ridiculous demanding.
I didn't demand for citizenship...
It was granted because I come legally and do the right thing and wait too many years for me to get citizenship.
Because... I want to live here and be part of US of America society...
I was glad to be part of this country...I am not trying to change languages and the Law of this country at all.
And I am a very conservative person in any way. My family values won't change.



In this case people don't have right to demand.
So I should demand of why if I apply for my brother for green card to be granted it will take about 15-20 years even if the legally way.

No way this illegal people be granted a citizenship if they entry illegal to this country.

Why the legal immigrants can't be granted a citizenship?
Instead... They have to wait up 20 for their green card and then another 5 years in most case to be able to apply for citizenship even they done it the legal way.

I say is not right at all.

Answer 6

Just be aware by making them legal not only rewards them for breaking the law. It also will ultimately dilute the the privilages and rights of being a natural born Citizen of the Republic of the United States of America even more than the Patriot Act has.

Answer 7

When people are desperate they resort to guile and bluff.

Demands are nothing more than a form of bluff.

You must remember the fact that many of these people have had very little education.

This makes them highly irrational as well as highly exploitable by political operatives who know how to get them all worked up.

They feel safe and emboldened when they are in groups.

And, of course, they can be expected to demand almost anything.

Answer 8

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

Answer 9

Hell no.That's more of the aclu's bullshit.I believe there should be 1 Flag 1 language 1 God.1 America
I also believe that America should enforce the laws that we have in place.Secure the boarder before it gets any worse.Earn a citizenship like our for father's did.Send their asshome to Mexico.We sure as hell don't need any more trouble here.GOD BLESS AMERICA and her citizens legal ones that is

Answer 10

I think it's asinine that criminals (illegal = criminal) can have this kind of effect on our supposedly bright representatives in the government.

I think all US citizens should be as appalled as I am and demand that the criminals be dealt with. This applies doubly to the companies and businesses that are hiring illegals, thus creating the draw for illegal immigration.