If you are in this country illegally - should you be able to get any benefits?

Question

1. Be able to OWN a home or business
2. FREE college as some states want to give them
a. free education for K - 12
3. FREE healthcare (plus an interpreter)
4. Driver's Licenses
5. Loans from the Bank of AMERICA with NO PROOF of citizenship
6. Automatic citizenship to any of their children born in the US

Answer 1

There was a rumor in a suburb of Houston that INS was going to be checking people at a local school. Half of the students didn't show up that day. Illegals are already getting free education. They work day labor jobs, get paid in cash and never have to pay taxes on that money.

Answer 2

Let's be real...They usually do labor jobs which NO american will do. We all come from immigrants, unless you are an Indian American. Don't get me wrong I feel there should be control of who enters this country and how they enter and if you paid your taxes, have history in the US and entered with some sort of Visa you should be granted some sort of temporary residency.Free education K-12 is not a bad thing to give as well as children being born in this country. I knoe ALOT of illegals who have BA Degrees and have to work in Landscaping. These people who have a great education and sadly have to come to the US bc there are no jobs in their country should be granted a Temporary Work Visa, this would lower all the immigration problems here. They have to deport people who are criminals,etc. But there are good people out there too, that this country could use.

Answer 3

1. So now you want to regulate who banks can lend money to?
2. No state is giving illegal immigrants a free college education.
3. No illegal immigrant gets FREE healthcare.
4. I'm actually with you here.
5. Bank of America lends money to foreigners all the time. So does the United States government.
6. If you are born here, you are an American. Period. Otherwise, you're going to have to regulate which people who are born here get to be citizens. How far back do we have to go? My great grandparents weren't American citizens, but I was born here. Do I get to retain my citizenship, or did my ancestors have to be here at the time of colonization?

Answer 4

In regards to your point 2a, why not ask the Supreme Court?
Have you ever heard of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982)?

The state of Texas had created a law (May 1975) requiring that all children enrolled in the public schools be either U.S. citizens or legal immigrants -- prohibiting illegals. A little more than two years later a lawsuit was filed in Tyler, TX challenging the law as a violation of the 14th Amendment's guarantee of the equal protection of the laws. All three levels of the federal courts came to the same basic conclusion -- the law is unconstitutionally discriminatory. The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling was by a narrow margin, 5 to 4, with Justice Brennan writing the majority opinion, for himself and Justices Blackmun, Marshall, Powell, and Stevens. (In previous cases, Justices Blackmun and Powell had taken the view that the state may constitutionally ban legal immigrants from jobs as police officers (Foley v. Connelie, 435 U.S. 291 (1978)) and that getting an education is not a constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right (San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973)).) My "favorite" (note the sarcasm) part of Brennan's opinion for the Court is, "It is difficult to understand precisely what the State hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare, and crime." What a swell job of understanding the motives of the Texas legislature.

Six years after the Plyler decision, Professor David P. Currie, writing a two-volume text called "The Constitution in the Supreme Court," had harsh words for this particular decision. He wrote, "With all due respect, this is carrying solicitude a little far. Public resources are scarce and those who have no business being here can have poor claim on them. I may have a right to keep a burglar out of my house, the Court appears to be saying, but once he is there I must invite him to dinner."

Answer 5

I guess as long as corporations are allowed to hire them then I would say yes...that said, the law should deal very harsh penalties to the CEOs or owners of businesses who hire illegals....and, of course, we are prepared to pay a lot more for that burger...America is in a tough situation...forced repatriation and suffer the wrath...allow them and watch the influx increase....it is a situation that will be lost no matter what avenue is followed...good luck with that one..wait a minute...Canada is not far behind you...just not as vociferous about it...YET

Answer 6

There is absolutely no question that illegal immigration is a serious problem in the US. But villifying these people...accusing them of being just short of human....is unjustified. Afterall...they are being hired illegally by Americans...so what would you propose the solution to that is? Are you equally interested in villifying and prosecuting those Americans who hire the illegal immigrants? And while we're at it....is everyone posting an answer completely innocent of breaking any laws? I, for one, don't know of anyone who has never broken a law...however minor.

He who is without sin may cast the first stone...

Answer 7

I used to be soft on their children, until I realized what kind of country will be there for ours.

Americans who speak of cheap labor and their willingness to do the jobs "other Americans won't" aren't factoring in their children, who are being educated alongside ours. They will be competing for the same jobs as our children.

This is a problem for me because their parents aren't making the contributions to this nation that we are. Like paying taxes.

Answer 8

No they get Nothing but a kick in the rear and escorted the the nearest port of exit.

Answer 9

No, only 7. A swift, one-way trip back to where you came from, with the bill for the travel presented to your host country!

Answer 10

The only right/benefit I think they should get is humane treatment as they are quickly taken back to their nation of origin.