Posted on Feb 2, 2017
Do you think illegal immigrants should be able to use welfare/public assistance?
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Considering all the illegal immigrants in this country, do you think they should be able to use welfare or public assistance considering they aren't citizens and that many working Americans are denied welfare or public assistance.
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No just no but HELL NO. If you are illegal you should not receive any government benefits period.
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HELL NO! They broke the law then you want to pay them to stay? Get out! Enough said.....
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No!-In fact if I recall correctly the two Boston Marathon bombers received public assistance, yes they were here legally but this certainly gave them the time and probably the money for their attack.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Better yet - keep the illegal in our jail and send the American business to a foreign jail (Turkish or Mexican). They'll DEFINITELY think twice before hiring again...
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SGT Jerrold Pesz
Many years ago I worked with a guy in Houston who used to get deported once a year. He was a US citizen and an Air Force veteran but his mother lived in Mexico City. Every year when it was time for his vacation he mailed all of his ID to her in Mexico and then got deported. When he was ready to come back he had his ID handy. He said that he saved a bunch of money on travel expenses that way. The government paid for his transportation and his meals on the way.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
SGT Jerrold Pesz - And I thought using various hotel airport shuttles to get around DC was smart. This guy deserves a commendation for how to work the system.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
And those providing that emergency lifesaving treatment should be required to report their illegal status so that they can be detained until they recover and then deported.
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CPO Bill Penrod
Colonel, you're shitting us, ERs in Sanctuary cities will not report anything to the feds voluntarily or mandatory.. .....
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SGT Gregory Yelland
CPO Bill Penrod - then the ERs and Sanctuary Cities should lose their Federal funding for aiding and abetting a Federal Criminal.
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No. They have earned no equity in the US system. In the old days, an immigrant required a sponsor prior to coming to the US with an offered job unless a direct family member. Usually that job was offered by the sponsor. The attraction of the US is the social assistance programs and somehow employment falls by the wayside. A Hispanic gentleman that I worked with years ago, was appalled at illegals being allowed to come in when he had worked for seven years to become a citizen. He was angry and referred to those "sucking" off the system as ticks rather than contributing members of society.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
The attraction CANNOT be benefits as benefits can't be "sent home." The attraction is money (job wages) that the alien's nation can't compete with. Remove the job and the alien will not come. They come because we hire them. There is the odd/rare one that will have a false SSN but the majority work under-the-table.
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SSgt Boyd Welch
There are many that don't send anything home. There are a lot that collect welfare when they get here. Case in point, you go down to my local emergency room on Saturday night and the ER is full of undocumented migrants who don't speak English. the hospital has to treat and stabilize before they can send them out so we wind up footing the bill.
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CSM Charles Hayden
I especially appreciate your comment about "equity" in America.
A taxi drive told me he had the same right to be in America as me! NO TIP FOR HIM!
A taxi drive told me he had the same right to be in America as me! NO TIP FOR HIM!
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No benefits, no protections, no rights or privileges. Oh./..no anchor children either.
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SPC Joseph McBrayer
The whole idea of an anchor child being granted US citizenship is horse shit and needs to be stopped. Too many of these illegals intentionally come here for the sole reason of having a child which allows them a foothold in the door to being here. All of this nonsense needs to be banned immediately!!!
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MCPO Roger Collins
This isn't just an illegal situation, a number of foreign visitors come here and have babies then go home with their freshly minted citizen to be used like an insurance policy. It's settled law due to SCOTUS decisions and only they could change the decision, except for a Constitutional amendment change and that's not going to happen.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Or just do what every other nation in the world does. Grant the *BABY* citizenship and send the parents home. My wife's English. When our son was born in England, I was not given proxy citizenship or benefits because of his birth.
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Call them what they are - illegal aliens. Yes, I do know that some illegals are decent people but when you stepped over the border, you became a criminal. In simple, a illegal alien is like a thief who breaks into your house but does not leave. He takes your money, your food, your property, everything you have worked for all your life including possibly your life. Do you know that if they need a attorney, they can get one and not have to pay for one but if you need one, you have to pay for one especially if you are out of the military and still might have to pay for one if this happen off-base. We have been having a problem with illegals for at least 40 years when Mexican women would cross our borders and have their children in our hospitals and we as US taxpayers get stuck paying for the bill and they then would apply for aide for dependent children, welfare and foodstamps and get out of this and cross our borders again and go back home and their children were given US citizenship when neither parent were US citizens. But you needing foodstamps especially if you are on Social security disability asking for foodstamps or Medicaid. Make too much but I have to pay rent, utilities, insurances, car note, was in a crash and totaled car last year and pay my credit cards off. If you have more then $1000 in a bank account, you can not get Medicaid. Ridicious. Idiots. Help US citizens first.
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