Why should illegal immigrants have the same rights as legals who waited years to get in?
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jonboy_44(Above)-Did You Take Your MEDS Today??\n\nThis Is A NATION With LAWS-THAT IS The REALITY\nThis NATION Of LAWS Has BORDERS\nIt Dont MATTER HOW It Got To Be That Way\nTHAT Is The Way It Is\nThe INDIANs, The BUFFALOs, The WARs, The ESKIMOEs,\nIT DONT MATTER-Thats The WAY It IS\n\nYou Have The RIGHT To Be Here If \n1:You Were BORN Here\n2:You Take The Basic Nessesary Steps To Apply For A VISA And Then CITIZENSHIP And Are APPROVED\nTHAT Is The LAW In THIS NATION\nIF EITHER 1 or 2 Of The ABOVE Are In Fact TRUE\nThen You Are A CITIZEN Of This Nation\nAnd You Have A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT To Be Here\n\nTHATS IT-THATS ALL-There Are NO More Arguements About The RIGHT To Be Here In This NATION Of LAWS\n\nILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Have No Constitutional Rights\n\nYou CANNOT "STEAL" The RIGHT To Be Here As You CANNOT STEAL ANY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS\nIf You DO, You Are A FELON\nYouve BROKEN FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS\nIf You VIOLATE The FEDERAL LAWS Of A NATION, You Are A CRIMINAL\n\nIts THAT SIMPLE \nIf You Break Into A House To Steal Property, That Is An ILLEGAL ACTION, With A PENALTY If You Are Caught \nIf You SNEAK Across The BORDER Of A NATION To STEAL The RIGHT To Be There, That Is An ILLEGAL ACTION, With A PENALTY If You Are Caught\n\nILLEGAL ALIENS in America are here only because they are GUILTY of CRIMINAL VIOLATION  of our FEDERAL LAWS, Jumping our borders and living in a shadowy underground economy.\n\n They are morally culpable for shoving aside those who adhere to the law and enter these United States in orderly and Legal Fashion.\n \nSince when do criminals and cheaters receive pride of place for the blessings of liberty, over those honestly, earnestly and faithfully seeking to become American citizens? \n\nPresident Bush has called for a reasonable and civil debate over the issues of border security and immigration reform. But the American people understand there can be no responsible immigration reform UNTIL OUR BORDERS ARE SECURE.\n \n“Guest worker” amnesty programs ARE NOT a part of border security. Amnesty is not the answer. To grant amnesty to these trespassers is to say "You crossed our borders ILLEGALLY, You BROKE OUR LAWS and now we are REWARDING you with U.S. Citizenship -- Congratulations!" \n\nThis is unacceptable.
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Yes, mine came legally as well.  Those who compare want to open the borders to all.  "Just let everyone in"  is their philosophy.  But they don't think it through. When does it stop?  Or doesn't it?  Let in a billion people?  That is why every country in the world including Mexico have border and immigration rules.  Those crying for illegal immigrants to just be granted legal status will surely be the same ones crying for higher taxes  for otherrs to pay for their education, medical care, housing, etc.  They'll want the so-called "rich" to support them, the rich being anyone who makes more than they do.\n\nYou know if you ask those who are applying for citizenship now, who took the time and trouble to learn English, who have family in other countries waiting to come to the U.S. in the legal way, who have worked hard since coming to the U.S. and have done their share of what is called the menial jobs, they will tell you that they aren't too happy with others who might get citizenship for breaking the law.   If you talk to others whose relatives have had to return to their native land because their visa or extension was denied, you will hear them saying they are not too pleased either that others are getting in because they broke the  law.  Those who returned home wiill try again but shall we call them "stupid" for doing it the legal way?\n\nNote:  At one time there was a land bridge from Alaska, a footbridge, so from where did the native americans come?  I suggest an answerer up above research that.
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ok, lets get the fact straight here. yes america has alot of immigrants and such. Most of the ones living here today not from mexico got here LEGALLY and WANTED to be part of the united states so they could make a better life for themselves by hard work and they worked hard to learn english so they could fit in an BE american. Immigrants from mexico only want cash to send back to their home country. And yes we also have a constitution with a bill of rights, these rights are for U.S citizens ONLY. If these people want rights then they should come here legally and recieve them instead of trying to steal them. The reason why we have a country of such prosperity is due to our fathers and their fathers before them and so on. due to their hard work and sacrifice is why we enjoy the freedoms we do. These people should have to work, and work hard to become american citizen just as the immigrants form that past did from europe whom sold almost everything they had for a ticket on a steam ship to get here and then go thru Elis Island. What most of these immigrants want now from mexico is a hand out. simply because they are here now no matter for how many years is no reason to give them amnesty! Any one here illegaly should be put on a bus and dropped back in mexico. Little to people know if an american is caught in Mexico illegaly thats exactly what happens.
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I think Amnesty should be granted to those illegals who have been here for over ten years and have proven to be upstanding citizens in that time, have constantly been working and who do not have a criminal record.  Those found to have a criminal record or are currently in our jails shoud be deported immediately.  Landlords knowingly renting to illegals and employers hiring them should be fined after the first offense and jailed after.  Before implementing any type of Amnesty or guest worker program however, our borders MUST be sealed!!
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Even with people who have experience with immigration, they think that it is the illegal immigrants fault for the wait times of the legal immigrants.  They say that immigration is to busy focusing on the demands tht the illegal immigrants are making, when in reality, the people in the immigration office that process the paperwork have nothing to do with the demands of the illegal immigrants.  It is congress that has to deal with deciding what if anything they are going to do about the illegal immigrants demands.  It is congress that makes the laws that immigration is supposed to enforce.  However, they have a whole different section of people who do search and captures and what not of the illegal immigrants, and they have nothing to do with those that process the paperwork.\nThe backlog of paperwork has always been.  The immigration offices do not have enough people to process the paperwork, then since 9-11 they requirements of paperwork have grown to a crazy level, and that has just added to the time.\nEven if amnesty was created for the illegal immigrants that are here now, that does not put them to the front of the line for those that are waiting legally.  Immigration papers when received are stamped with the date, and then they are handed out to the different workers, then they are worked on in order of receipt.
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You know what sucks as well.Legal immigrants like my mom,dad\nand little sister and me from India have to go through 9 years of\nhell to get a citizenship.And my dad is a computer programmer\nwho wants to help this great country and yet we are treated like dust and have to go through so much to get a citizenship\nwhile the illegals get all the respect and even get to stay here.\nITS JUST NOT FAIR!!
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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 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.
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Don't know.  It's rather a gray area.  They are here illegally, so I really have no idea what legal rights someone would have when they invade the country.  You might be best off if you turn them in to the authorities if you're worried about getting in trouble for keeping them.  Otherwise, you aren't doing much more than many businesses are doing, except that you aren't paying them anything & are whipping them.  If you pay them a couple of bucks a day & don't whip them, then you are about as legally liable as McDonald's, Wal-Mart, & all the many other businesses who knowingly evade taxes by hiring illegal immigrants instead of U.S. citizens.
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they mistakenly think they have rights (the illegals)
530953
Most of the illegal immigrants made a CHOICE of entering this country illegally. But there a few of us who did not have much of a choice when we were infants. I agree with you, this country set rules for everyone in the US to follow. One of the rules is to enter the country legally, so technically those who chose to enter illegally are criminals. But why should we spend our tax money chasing after these people who are trying to better their lives when we have true criminals out on the streets? We should all keep in mind that not all illegal immigrants(Hispanics) jumped the border last week. Some of us have lived in the US for over 18 years. We do not have an accent and do not live off of food stamps.\n\nMy answer to your question is that many of us were 3 years old when our relatives brought us here, and I am pretty sure they forgot to ask us if we wanted to enter the US legally or illegally. Let's not be cruel, infants and toddlers are not criminals.
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I completely agree with you. I am married to a U.S citizen and  am trying to go though the immigration system legally myself. I have been here for 9 months and I cannot work or drive or leave the country. My husband is working 16 hours a day to try to pay the immigration costs and for us just to survive. I know that we still have years of this sort of thing to go though. So why should the people that came here illegally be given the right to stay. I have no rights here. It's just a slap in the face to everyone trying to do things the right way.
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If illegals are living next to me, then our country's law enforcement really sucks.  Why have any legal process whatsoever if illegals can live and work freely for years to earn anough money to buy a decent house in a good neighborhood.  Why does our government allow them to obtain a bank account, buy a car, get a driver's license, enroll their kids in our schools, etc.  It is unbelievable when you think of how many failures/breakdowns need to occur for illegals to remain in this country for years.
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No one illegal have the right to do anything, you must go the proper channels to make anything legitimate for the proper protection of the law and from the Law Example, if someone force themselves into your home, what rights as an intruder do they have, unless you give them permission! Well it works also in the larger scale of things
668543
They should get the same rights blacks had when they were immigrating them here. No that would just be mean. But they should have no rights.
366843
Humans should have BASIC rights in any country. Illegal immigrants should never be given the benefits earned and deserved by legal immigrants and native born citizens.
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There are countries that are in worse shape than mexico,and those individuals that have waited for years should be allowed to come into this country before the mexicans,but you have low lifes in our goverment like George Bush,Hillary Clinton,Ted Kennedy,John McCain and others that are kissing mexicans behinds to get then on their side instead of doing what's right for the country.