Why should the USA give Citezenship to illegal immigrants?
355241
well here i have two cool websites for u the first shows the opinions which Alan Greenspan has about illegal immigrants read the sixth review which talks about the contributions of immigrants . and the second talk about the trues and lies about undocumented workers .\nhttp://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_14/c3675078.htm\nFederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has spoken repeatedly about the contributions of both skilled and unskilled immigrants. He has advised Congress to ''open up our immigration rolls significantly''\nhttp://www.durrani.com/newsite/news_items/nactive_disp.asp?ID=1306
769145
You seem to be under the misapprehension that illegal immigrants get all that stuff legally.  In most cases, they are breaking the law to do so.  So, as an American citizen, you have just as much right as illegal immigrants to commit welfare and insurance fraud, and just as much right to take up room in prison when you do so.
554685
no. why would we reward people for breaking the law. there are just as many people taking the time to go through the process, why take away their chances?! and to be honest, i think the reason immigrants are taking these jobs "no one else will do" is because they are less likely to require paperwork and therefor can remain in the US. Ruining our economy, taking away our healthcare, demanding spanish speaking school teachers etc. i dont care if you are mexican, irish, german, just be here legally.
580294
Somebody started this thing & I can't believe so many people fell for it!  I support the people who wish to become Citizens of the U.S.  If they don't want to be legal, they should be fingerprinted, photographed, & held until such time as our government can do a background check on them.  If they clear, then they should be given a temporary citizenship status with a temporary SS#.  If they are in violation of our laws, they should be deported or jailed.  I was born in the U.S. & I have to follow the law, so why shouldn't everyone!
471143
There is a huge incentive for poor people in a desperately corrupt country to face almost certain death to come to a place where there are far too many short-sighted employers who are willing to sabotage our country by circumventing the whole idea of supply and demand for labor. The problem is not that Americans will not do the jobs that are needed, but that they are not willing to do the jobs for the wages that are offered. Supply and demand says that if you want labor in a tight market, you have to pay what it is worth. By purposefully recruiting desperate people who are entering illegal, and thus cannot defend any human rights they have, the employers are able to pay slave wages, charge for mimimum wage, and pocket the difference.\n\nWe the people are the losers. Instead of building a wall to keep out immigrants, we should deport criminal employers.
1029568
No...You don't reward people who break the law by giving them citizenship.  Let them go through the proper channels to become citizens like the millions of others did.
762873
Illegal immigrants -- or legal foreign tourists for that matter -- get Constitutional guarantees (Bill of Rights) like anyone else in the USA -- unless Pres. George W. Bush has designated them "enemy combatants".\n\nThey do not get very many "benefits" of financial value, except emergency health care (mainly: traffic accidents and childbirth). Their children born in the USA are US citizens, and the US Supeme Court held, particuarly with respect to education -- free schooling -- that they cannot be denied benefits based on their parents' status. Which makes sense apart from the Constitutional issue because it would mean raising a generation of illiterate citizens!\n\nParents of babies born in the USA get no benefit (other than as above) from that fact -- they can be and are deported. In one case (you can Google "Myrna Dick") a judge held that a woman alleged to be in the US illegally (she had been brought to the USA from Mexico at age 9 and married an American and was pregnant) could not be deported until after her baby was born. A good -- but charitable -- holding I think; difficult to justify on the grounds given (that the "fetus" is American). But it delighted some anti-abortion activists.
570217
Because it becoming Politically Incorrect to do the right thing nowadays.You and I have to obey the laws or get punished. But if you enter country illegally its become "the thing to do"to let you escape prosecution.Shhhh this line of thinking gets you called a Racist.............
837431
The evidence in support of putting and end to illegal immigration is overwhelming. Study after study, fact after fact CLEARLY demonstrates this. Illegal aliens have broken federal law, they are in fact criminals. The U.S. Government has made but a token effort to enforce the law and in every other aspect (free food, free medical, free education, public assisted housing) encourages and rewards the lawbreakers.\n\nI find that the U.S. government is guilty of aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise. I find them guilty of importing criminals and sentence ALL former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and members of the House and Senate to give up and forever relinquish their FAT pensions.\n\nGee if we could do that this problem would have been solved in a heartbeat
557981
Because its against the law.  They don't pay taxes and end up getting free social services without any reproductions to them and it puts a strain on America.  It's not fair for non-illegal immigrants that nothing happens to illegal ones, they worked hard to get to this country legally so its just not fair that illegals can have the same thing they do.
1129162
It might sound good to an illegal criminal, but not to LEGAL USA Citizens:\nSenate Bill-- the rights illegals will get:\nCurrent Bill:\n\n1. grants amnesty to the MILLIONS of illegals already here!\n2.grants amnesty to illegals FAMILYS,who live OUTSIDE the country\n3.admits HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of unskilled "guest workers",through a new "guest worker" program,with a direct path to permanent resident and citizenship!\n4.admits 1.5 MILLION\nagricultural "guest workers" with a direct path to citizenship!\n5.increases the number of employment based, immigrants admitted to the U.S. each year,by 400%!!\n6.gives the Dept.of Homeland Insecurity,the discretion to waive fines for employers who knowingly hire illegals!!\n7.allows states to give ILLEGALS,in-state tuition benefits that they can DENY to citizens who live in other states!\n8.requires consultation with the MEXICAN government,before we begin construction of a fence along OUR border!\n9.creates new student visa programs,with direct path to citizenship!\n10.allows ILLEGALS to claim Social Security benefits,for work performed ILLEGALLY!!!!\n11. Adds a 10 year 'statute of limitations' to give amnesty to illegals coming in in the future if they provide documentation saying they were here for 10 years at any future point. (This to people who have been using false documents all along.)\n12. Each of the guest workers in each of the 1.5 million person PER YEAR and 200,000 unskilled person PER YEAR program would, upon obtaining residency or citizenship be able to bring their families as well. This includes indigent parents at a time when we already don't know how we will fund old age requirements for the baby boomers.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal just touted a poll saying Americans are beginning to prefer Bush and the Senate's view to immigration reform. However, I've read the questions they asked. Had I not actually read the Senate Bill and had I been asked those questions, I'd have ended up being counted as supporting Bush and the Senate in this. People only approve of the Senate Bill if they don't know what it says.\n\nThey are not looking out for legal American Citizens. They don't listen to us. They are listening to freeloading illegal immigrants. If enough of the voting legal population will get their heads out of their butts and let their senators and representatives know how they feel about this atrocity to the American people they just might start to listen to us. \nThe laws on illegal immigration are already on the books, they just need to ENFORCE THEM.\n***********Americans Need to Get Their Heads**********\n*********Out Of Their Butts And Pay Attention************\n\nCredit goes to: DAR and yars232c Y!A members
921903
Make Citizen's Arrests on illegal aliens.
113316
There is a myth that employers in the United States must use illegal immigrants to fill these jobs because "they are jobs that no one else will do".  The true statement is that they are jobs that no one else will do for the little amount of money that the employers wish to pay, which is as little as possible.\n\nA prime example of this is the construction industry.  Twenty years ago, I was working in construction and the jobs were held by American citizens and I was earning a pretty good wage for starting a job with little skill.  Today, if you don't speak Spanish, you can't work in construction.  Construction used to be a pretty well paying field of work.  You could earn enough to have a pretty good house and car.  Today, no way!  You have to rent share with several other people because the wages are so pitifully bad.\n\nIf those jobs paid the fair wages that they used to instead of taking advantage of desperate people, there would be many  more United States citizens working in those jobs, including those involved in the Minuteman project.
1032765
I guess for the same reason that they apparently want illegals to be allowed to stay in the US and be paid slave wages.  Its a very strange belief system.
1096344
NO!!\nAmnesty will only encourage future illegal immigration. THink.. If those people see that we give amnesty to illegals, then they too will think they can come here and get amnesty in the future as well. Your stealing a car example is dead on. Amnesty is no better then releasing all prisoners because they have been in there for a long time.
591508
For anyone who is illegally here in the US.
430354
The American government has a very good reputation for protecting its citezens abroad.  It should do all that it can diplomaticly to protect its citezens but the individuals need to take responsibiblity for their own safety and understand that some places are not safe to visit.  Its the same in most Islamic nations, in China, in many African nations, and in some areas of India.  You can't count on the U.S. government to bail you out of every bad decision you make in your life.