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illegal immigrants are treated better than citizens
Free education
Free housing
Free health care
One baby and all this government assistance
Gets an American citizens job. WTF? I have to plan early and find out how I'm gonna get a scholarship because my family can't afford college, and we gotta pay taxes or get the F out, we have an apartment above grandma's house and the best we can figure out but may or may not take it is a house with walls inside gutted out, and my dad has a back injury and can't even work at McDonalds cause of it and has to go to court and fight for a check, meanwhile my mom is 40 something and has to go to school and get a better job so me and my siblings could have a life, yet anyone could illegally cross the border and it's all like,“oh, here's all this money, and a house, you can go to Harvard for free, oh, and you can have this American guys job, you don't have to pay for anything" yet my family pays taxes and stuff like that and we get NOTHING other then a poor school needing to do 10,000 fundraisers a year and box tops every 2 days, but nooo, aliens get a fancy private school. I know an old lady who may have no place to live in the future, and you know what she gets from the government? NOTHING! NOTHING AT ALL! NOT A CENT! But illegal immigrants get EVERYTHING! It's not fair American citizens should be treated better and illegals sent back or put in jail! Why, in other t countries they'll threaten your children and kill you if you enter illegally.
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I understand that you are frustrated about your current situation but I think your rant about illegal immigrants is something that you heard not something you know to be fact. I have a very hard time believing that illegal immigrants are given all these things. I think you should call your local welfare office and tell them you are doing research on this subject and find out the real truth. If what you say is true and they really are entitled to all these things then find out why. Many times adults get frustrated and look for a scapegoat to blame it on(in this case illegal immigrants) and before you know it illegal immigrants are responsible for everything from Aids to bad school lunches! I am not saying that some of your reasoning isn't valid but I think someone you have been listening to has blown this all out of proportion. I have a friend who immigrated from Belgium (legally) and she can not get help of any kind from our government until she has been a US citizen for 5 years. No health care, no food stamps, no student loans, not even WIC for her baby. Her husband's family had to agree to sponsor her and provide for any needs that may arise. Her husband paid for the birth of their baby out of his own pocket and he doesn't make a lot of money. If she is treated in this manner by our government then why would they treat ILLEGAL immigrants any better? I am NOT in any way defending illegal immigrants but please do the research on this and find out the truth. You might be surprised at how much it differs from what you have heard!
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Razhies' feeling on illegal immigrants and yours are diametrically apposed. Who is right and who is wrong. I truly can't say either of you are right or wrong for both of you are right in how you are seeing the problem.
Yes illegal immigrants who take low wage jobs that legal citizens would never touch. Yes they are exploited in many different ways. Because of the liberals among us and are their idealistic manner of fairness to all. Some citizens miss out on things given to children of illegal aliens.
Is it right that a child of an illegal alien receive a tax payer funded scholarship so they can eventually become a legal citizen and a productive member of society; as the sales pitch goes. Probably not as those scholarships should go to the taxpayer whose taxes are funding it. Charitable based scholarships are a different story as they are funded through private donations where those donating know where the money is going.
Should we be sending food and monetary aid for education and health to countries overseas when we have people here at home who are hungry and sick. It is my belief we should not be doing so.
Why does this happen. It is really simple. These countries and the illegal aliens have a loud and large voice that speak for them in the halls of Washington. The poor of this country do not have that singular loud voice that speak for the masses of the poor.
What can you do about this? You can continue to fight to get the education you need to learn to be the person who can organize that louds voice who speaks for the masses of poor in this country. Then and only then will the cease to be the third class citizen they have become.
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Someone has been lying to you. Lots of someone's perhaps.
Most illegal immigrants in the States work low-wage jobs. Many make less than minimum wage and can never complain, or argue for better, because the laws that protect Americans wages and work don't apply to them. They work as much as their employer demands, for as little as they offer. If not, they are fired without any ability to complain about the employers abuse and illegal behaviour.
There are even people who argue that without illegal immigration, it wouldn't be possible to generate enough food, cheaply enough, to feed Americans. Americans wont work the fields for dollars a day - illegal immigrants will.
Maybe a few people born here to illegal immigrants earn scholarships to good schools, but the majority of children of illegal immigrants never even finish high school, largely because they are pressured to enter the workforce to help support the family and earn their keep, and because they know their status means they can't attend college anyways.
Of course there are horrible things about illegal immigration, and it is a crime. It does cost the government money, and it also drives down wages for low-wage American workers, but someone has been telling you lies to try to make you hate them even more. Many illegal immigrants do pay taxes (even though they can't access most of the services those taxes go towards) and if they overpay, the don't get a refund.
To say that immigrants get 'everything' is nonsensical. They have no legal protections and no dignity. There is no court for them to go too. No check for them to fight for. No justice to access. Most have no hope of every improving their situation. You and your mother at least had a chance to improve your lives through hard work - and your mother made it happen for your family. Illegal immigrants only have the hope to not slip deeper into poverty.
You may not like that the children of illegal immigrants are Americans, by they are Americans just the same way you are. Should we deny the rights of children of other people who've committed crimes? Should we jail and kill the children of murderers as well?
People tell these lies about illegal immigration so you don't get mad at your government, and your representatives. So you don't realize that the same policies they say are there to keep those 'damn illegals' down are also making your life much harder. Each election they get to blame the immigrants for the bad job market, and the bad schools, even it's really their policies and choices that are making your life worse, and they don't have to fix that as long as they keep you lied too and angry. They want you to shut up about actual problems, and just keep bitching about those damn immigrants.
Wise up. Illegal immigration is not actually the biggest problem facing America. A angry, misinformed voting base is.
Adviceman is right we have different feelings you and I, but I have facts where you have fictions. You got these fictions from people whose power is based in your being misinformed. I don't like illegal immigration, but I hate liars. This isn't about bleeding hearts or some sort 'fairness'. Illegal immigrants are criminals, but the people who told you these lies are fuelling hatred and stupidity. It might be legal to lie, just to make people hate each other, but it horrific and hateful behaviour.
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