Why should an illegal alien be given citizenship - ever?

Question

I am all for those here contributing to society being given a national ID, work permit and allowance to stay. But why not appease the American citizen and those who follow the rules and get here legally by denying citizenship to those who broke our laws to get here?

Answer 1

Very true, all amnesty does is reward law breakers. Someone here illegally should never never get citizenship. No amnesty, No reform.

Answer 2

There are FAR too many illegal aliens here. We should not give citizenship EVER to any illegal alien. We should deport all illegal aliens that we can locate. We should enforce our borders properly. We have a legal process for entering this country. There is a limit to how many immigrants we can admit to the U.S. If an immigrant is not here legally, he is a CRIMINAL and should be treated as such.

Answer 3

All countries in the world are supposed to abide by an agreement that states they should give refuge to those who really need it. Then countries have their own laws which state someone is an illegal alien if they have entered without formal process.

Most of these people lack the paperwork to prove who they are that's required to enter a country legally. If you were about to be killed and had watched your family be brutally murdered I doubt you would spare the time to find your birth certificate if you were ever issued one in the first place.

American citizens who want to deny others a life should not be "appeased" they should have a good hard look at their values.

Answer 4

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should an illegal alien that broke the law to get or stay here be granted citizenship AHEAD of those going through the legal process. Deport them and send them to the back of the line!!!!!

Answer 5

I want to chip in on something that isn't said very often. There are many people that come here (a majority of them) that would come here legally if they could. the problem is they are to poor to qualify to come here legally.

I think that it should be done on a here by time basis. After background checks, I think that those that were here for 5 years (for example) with no legal problems, etc. etc. can apply for everything - then at some point qualify for citizenship. If they were here for 3-5 years then they can apply for work permit, and green car and maybe after 10 years or more qualify for citizenship after fulfilling other requirements. and if you have been here 2 years or less, you get 1 year to tie up loose ends and go back.

Answer 6

No illegal alien should ever be aloud to stay. Its not about appeasing the citizens its about doing whats right. I can tell you they would have gained a lot more sympathy if they actually learned English and stopped trying to make American citizens conform to them. They have the gall to march in our streets and try to tell us how to run our country. They should all be shipped back. Every last illegal.

Answer 7

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. 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 8

Illegal immigrants are exactly that - illegal. People who break the law are stripped of their citizenship rights, so why should people from another country, who are here illegally, be given citizenship status?

Answer 9

If a person enters our country illegally he should NEVER be given citizenship.

Answer 10

exactly, they should never get em.
it rewards for cutting in line of the people doing it legally
what do youthink would happen the day that the mexis get a free ride.... a flood of a million million beans would burst over our borders and we would have tacos and burritos all over the damn place