Why do illegal Immigrants think that they should get the same rights as citizens?
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Most lawbreakers try to excuse themselves, often \nby accusing you of doing something wrong. All races have\nlawbreakers so merely condemning someone of breaking a\nlaw does not make you a racist unless you say that a\nparticular race is likely to break laws. Lawbreakers may\nfeel that because pandering politicians, businesses that\nwant cheap labor, and churches which want more members\nencourage them it's ok to be criminal.
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Of course not.  If you come to the U.S. illegally you should be deported, prosecuted, or both.  Those protesting for immigrant rights forget that those folks that are here have only one right - to go home or go to prison.  Since when do you get rights when you commit an illegal act?  The only right you have is to a speedy trial.  Instead, those coming to the U.S. illegally are protesting.  It's like you're coming through immigration control at the airport and they won't let you in and so you protest and complain that you don't have the right to stay.  YEAH!  Dude, you're illegal - you don't get to come in!  Those that are protesting are basically arguing that they should be allowed to stay and use our resources (welfare, schools, hospitals, etc.) - even though they're here illegally  I don't get this logic!!\n\nI do believe the U.S. needs to do more to help the Mexican economy but that should not be manifested in an open boarder where Mexicans or others can come into our country illegally and use our resources.  This phenomenon is in part responsible for driving the California economy into the tank.  I can tell you, if it means paying double for fruits in vegetables to have a carefully monitored boarder so those that are coming into our country belong here then I'm willing to pay!
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they mistakenly think they have rights (the illegals)
690293
The question was asked incorrectly.  What American citizens have against undocumented illegals is that we work and pay taxes, they don't.  We are already supporting our countries' homeless and welfare people and now we have to take care of the illegals also?  They want the same benefits that others get then all we ask is that they follow the same rules and laws that we as Americans follow.  Become a US Citizen, pay taxes, work, what is so hard about that.  Go back to the 40s, the people from Ellis Island were documented, worked and helped to make this country what it is today.
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I believe that the illegal immigrants that are already here, should have the right to become citizens.  I have recently just got back from Mexico by myself because my husband was not granted his Visa.  It is really bad when people live the right way and pay taxes are punished because they have been in the United States for more than a year.  It is not right to sent all the illegal immigrants back to Mexico just because you think they have no rights.  The Mexicans just come here to better their life for thier famileis.  I have been married for 4 years and have 2 children with my husband.  He is now in Mexico and we have to wait untill he gets a waiver to come back the right way.  He has been here since he was 16 and has no life in Mexico.  His life is here with me and our children.
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All the people of the USA are descended from IMMIGRANTS some LEGAL, some ILLEGAL. Except the 100% Native Americans. The USA won the land they think we stole, then paid for the same land. If the people who were Mexican didn't want to be U.S. American citizens they were given the option to to stay or go back to Mexico. We have laws to control illegal immigrants now,(although not recently enforced). It is necessary to prevent too many people coming into the USA too fast.\nphotofemale810 is asking a legitimate question. They(those ILLEGAL people doing the protests and demanding rights they don't HAVE) DO NOT respect the USA when they fly the flag of the very country they left due to low wages and bureaucratic greed. They do NOT respect the USA when they call the citizens filthy names, when it is those very citizens who pay and have paid (since they worked their first job) taxes which supports the very welfare assistance programs the protesters ABUSE. If those people are so"strong" and "hardworking" and have any "pride" they would go back to their own country and make it better for their children and their grandchildren. How can those children/grandchildren grow up to respect their ancestors when they came here illegally, protested, demanded rights that weren't theirs and turned their backs on their very own country and heritage? Where is the pride in that? They need to get strength from their fellow man in their OWN country and fight and protest THERE.
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I agree with you - no illegal immigrant has the "right" to do anything but to be returned to his/her own country. It disgusts me when people compare our ancestors who immigrated here legally with these people who care nothing of our laws, and so have no problem breaking them to enter.  We have immigration policies (they need to be enforced), and people can enter this country through an already established procedure. We should not be made to feel ashamed because we ask others to obey the same laws that every American is asked to obey!
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I am personally against giving rights to people who have no respect for the law by entering or remaining illegally, however they are desperate to get rights because usually they are very impoverished or refugees from tyranny and want badly to stay in the US where even abject poverty is better than what they had.\n\nAnd no, we are all not illegal aliens as one person suggested. The American Indians were not the first here. When their ancestors came over here, there already existed people before them. Those people were then conquered, killed, or assimilated by the ancestors of the American Indians.\n\nConquering was for thousands of years, an accepted part of the life of mankind and countries grew out of those wars. We are simply one of those countries. I was born in this country and I am a citizen.
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You don't have ANY rights in my country unless you are a legal immigrant.  If you aren't legal, correct the situation or GET OUT! Quit using up our resources.  We need them to take care of our own people.  We can't take care of the whole blasted world.  If you're here legally, then of course none of this applies to you. And if you're illegal, then you're right---this country wouldn't be the place it is.  It would be much more able to take care of it's own citizens.
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Of course.  We should have the same rights and privelages as any other tax paying citizen.
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Yeah, if your here illegally then yeah you have no rights. But that doesn't mean that if you are here illegally and your kids are freakin born here, the government cant just take away the freaking citizenship of those born here! its a joke!!please!! Not only does this effect the illegals this also effects all those that have green cards. this is also applies to foreign exchange students!\n\nThe freaking NATIONAL SECURITY issue, yeah AMERICA IS ABSOLUTELY FINE IF WE GET RID OF ALL OF THE ILLEGALS!! THIS IS A JOKE!! yeah like this will happen!!\n\nMost immigrants do all the small jobs. then the freakin "WHITE" man says ,"they took our jobs", B.S. No one wants to do the small jobs.instead we hire immigrants and pay them less because those jobs aren't important!\n\nPassing this law is also going to cost too much! Just to hold the immigrants in the freaking deportation place is too much! its just like jail, but not that extreme!!\n\nthink about it, this could effect all of your friendships with latino's, asians, pacific islanders, and any other race out there.\n\nif they pass this law, this country is going down the drain, and it'll be all of our faults because we elect those in office. This reminds me of the JIM CROWE laws from back in the day. HR4437=TROUBLE!
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If they are American citizens then they have rights that they can exercise. If they are illegal then they are here at their own risk. And the employers of illegal aliens should be punished. But yes I feel sorry for them too.
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it has something to do with the minority thing. if they are illegal they should have no rights. wish they was legal to pay their taxes.
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Why should Illegal Imigrants have "civil rights" in America when they are here as Criminals in the first place>:(
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No what I can't understand is why illegals are protesting this and demanding rights as though they have ANY rights. I don't understand where they get off. They demand that they get the same rights as legals who have worked for their citizenship. They aren't legals. They aren't supposed to be here and yet they are protesting and demanding rights. They need to realize that they have no rights and deserve no rights. They are stealing jobs and causing crime in a country that they are in illegally.
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Once again, I totally agree with you on this subject. I that when immigrants come over here and don't won't want to become citizens that they are just taking advantage of us and that their plans are to just use and abuse our economy and go back where they come from later after they have soaked up everything that they can. \n\nAlso, if they came over here b/c America is a great place, then why do they expect us to change our language, lifestyles etc....... If their own land was so unbearable to them that they couldn't live there, why do they want to turn our country into the same place?\n\n That was a great question! I know I have a lot of mad people out there who are reading this, but those are my feelings about this and my feelings will not change as long as I see my country getting run over by illegal immigrants.
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I think your question is really a disguised form of polemic. I see what you're trying to say here, but you miss the point entirely. The argument that has been made by many illegal immigrants is that because they pay taxes "like everybody else" they should be entitled to the same rights, like everybody else. I take issue with the contention that they do pay taxes like everyone else, and I also disagree with any argument that attempts to connect illegal citizenship with a sort of moral/ethical argument that supposedly supercedes a nation's legal authority. For one, illegal immigrants do not always pay their taxes (often a reason why they are hired in the first place is because they do not have any documentation and their work is paid in cash, under the table, so that no one pays any taxes on it). Furthermore, some studies have estimated that illegal immigrants actually receive much more income in the form of government support than they actually contribute (i.e. they are net tax loss for the government). As far as your moral implied argument that illegal immigrants- by virtue of their tax "contributions"- are owed something by the US government, I ask you the following: imagine that you move to any other country other than the United States- say Venezuela, or China, or Germany- and using the same illicit means, you find a job in these countries and then make a claim that these countries somehow "owe" you something. Hard to imagine? Why in the world is breaking American laws any more moral or ethical than breaking the laws in any other country around the world? The entire idea of sovereignty is that a country has a right- and a duty- to protect its citizens and to maintain its territorial integrity- including its borders. That duty and responsibility far outweighs any supposed duty to protect citizens from other countries.