why is it that people who are in our country illegally can have access to our court system?

Question

i mean wouldn't you at the very least have to be legally here?

it doesn't seem right that someone that crossed the border illegally can petition our court system....if they have all or most of our rights....why SHOULD they worry about becoming legal? gripes my azz

well i'm sorry but i think that when you are in this country illegally and desire to pursue some sort of court action, you should have to do that in your own country where you are legal.....now if you ARE here LEGALLY.....then yes....by all means you can use our court system. when you are CURRENTLY breaking the law.....how in the world are you entitled to use the court......you should be thrown into jail instantly and deported......and told that once you are LEGAL.....you can use our courts......i mean if you know i rob houses....are you going to give me access to your house????

Answer 1

Fourteenth amendment to the constitution: "No PERSON shall be denied life, liberty or property without due process of law." Last I checked, illegal immigrants fit the definition of "person".

btw, that clause was put into the constitution in response to the Dred Scott decision, which said that slaves had no access to the court system. Let's not repeat history.

Answer 2

Which country are you talking about? Several countries who use English are having problems with illegal aliens, and their courts are giving 'em special rights in the vain effort to show how compassionate they are. (It also expands the court's sphere of influence at the expense of the executive and legislative branches.)

I think everybody who's here should have recourse to the courts here, since justice is from God for all people, not from governments for some people. And if illegal aliens didn't have access (to at least some legal actions), someone who's accused of being here illegally could simply be deported without being allowed to dispute the charges.

Answer 3

I have asked this question in the past: can illegals hire a lawyer and file a lawsuit. It terribly sucks that yes they can. To double check I called lawyers and yes they do not ask for a valid SSN. They take anyone. America is known to the world for attorneys taking pseudo cases too.

Now the good news: since they are illegal, at any time people like us can call ICE and have them deported (and likely assets will be seized to pay for detention, deportation, ID theft prejudice etc)

Answer 4

Ever hear of Deportation Hearings? Also, once illegals enter the USA they are under Jurisdiction of US courts.

Answer 5

They have access to just about everything. Hear about the recent case when Mexico wouldn't extradite a Mexican back to the US who committed murder here and fled to back to Mexico?

The influx of Illegal Aliens has devastating, hidden medical consequences. We judge reality primarily by what we see. But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly than what is seen.[1] Illegal Aliens' stealthy assaults on medicine now must rouse Americans to alarmed alert.[2] Even President Bush describes Illegal Aliens only as they are seen: strong physical laborers who work hard in nasty jobs with low wages, who cultivate their families, and who pursue the American dream. What is unseen is their free medical care that has degraded and closed some of America's finest emergency medical facilities and caused hospital bankruptcies: 84 California hospital are closing their doors forever.[3] An important cause of these hospital closures is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA).

What is seen is the political statistic that 43 million lives are at risk in America because those people have no health insurance.[4] What is unseen is that medical insurance does not equal medical care. Uninsured people get medical care in hospital Emergency Rooms under the coercive EMTALA that obligates hospitals to treat the uninsured but does not pay for that care. Also unseen is the percentage of uninsured who are Illegal Aliens. No one knows how many Illegal Aliens reside in America. If 10 million, they constitute nearly 25% of the uninsured. If more, more.

Welfare is a term limited to only a few federal subsidy programs, and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) notes: "...the costs of illegal immigration in terms of government expenditures for education, criminal justice, and emergency medical care are significant." CIS estimates that the total net cost of illegal immigration is an annual drain on the government of $11-22 billion annually

For more bleeding, over 20 million illegals siphon off $68 billion annually out of your taxpayer pocket as they use our schools, welfare, medical care and services. Folks, they're not just picking lettuce anymore. They're taking jobs away from Americans. Harvard's Professor Borjas of economics showed that illegal aliens displace American workers out of $200 billion in lost wages annually. We're not talking about a financial nose bleed. We're talking slashed arteries!

All the while, according to a recent Bears and Sterns report, illegals work off the books to the tune of $400 billion annually in uncollected IRS income taxes. Who makes up that money? You do with the blood, sweat and tears from your working legally in your country. What are the consequences? For starters California with three million illegals stands at $38 billion in debt and last year, 86 hospitals and ER wards bankrupted. Every single state in America is under horrific financial crisis because of unpaid taxes by illegals and their massive liabilities. What makes it worse; over three million illegals add their illegal working hands to the US workforce annually. Feel your life blood draining?

Answer 6

Would you rather have them tried in Mexico where they would be let out that same day to just come back again.



By the way... Illegal immigration is not a new problem. Get over it, we can't stop it.

Answer 7

Because most of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution only require that you be here, not that you be here legally.

Richard

Answer 8

deportation hearings are done in court.

Answer 9

Sucks, doesn't it?