Do you think illegal immigrants should be able to use welfare/public assistance?

Interesting question in today's world (January, 2018). What about the children of Illegals? If t hose children were taken from their home country when they were less than 5 years of age... or not even born yet... Illegals bearing children here in the USA, and then challenging those children who've only lived within our borders and know no other country?

I have an opinion on this - but curious to hear what others think about DACA and the Dreamers.

They are already NOT allowed to receive benifits this is an irrelevant question created to anger over a problem that does not exist.

No.

In about 2001,I went to my ER in Decatur Alabama with a pretty bad cut on my hand, about 3 inches long and nearly 1/2 inch deep in the ball of my hand. I was in pain and miserable. The staff took my info and I had to sit around waiting and bleeding while they dealt with a woman (about 18) with a newborn and another baby maybe a year old at most. She was Mexican. Not Mexican-American. Well, that's what I believe since she literally did not understand a word of English and they had to dredge up someone who spoke Spanish to talk to her, so she could have been from pretty much anywhere in South America. She somehow had Medicaid (well, I think. It was a card from the USG with alternating blue and white stripes) for both the anchor babies. Ok, she was there first, but I was bleeding, and she had already seen the doctor about --whatever, the discussion was about taking up donations to get her a taxi ride home. Because "the pore little thang would have to push that buggy all the way home". Meanwhile, I was in a lot of pain and dripping blood on the floor because my paper towel bandage was saturated through. They screwed around with her for a good 15 minutes longer than necessary before getting me in to see anyone. The novocaine was probably the best drugs I ever had, for whatever reason, it was really painful.

Well, fuck. I couldn't get those cards, for myself or any children. I served in the USAF for 21.5 years, and at the time was a Deputy Sheriff, and I paid taxes my whole damn life. Hatred, much? Hell yes, I'm human. I'm not proud of how that made me feel. I understand the instinct that made the ladies at reception do that, it would be natural for me to help a woman like that, too. They didn't make the circumstances. Had she stayed her ass at home, though, the incident wouldn't have happened.
So here's my thing--

Welcome to the US. But first, do all the hard shit like all the immigration paperwork. Learn how to speak English. Get a driver's license, and insurance, and register your car in your own, real name, so that when you get drunk and run into me you can't just run away (saw that happen about a dozen times), and so the rest of us don't have to pay "uninsured motorist" premiums because of you. Don't change the name you go by on your fake ID so when you get tickets everyone else has to pay, the warrants have no effect and you get away scot free. I bet there are several thousand warrants on fake, Mexican names in every county in the South that has chicken houses and packing plants.

The last couple years I was a cop, I just quit writing tickets because the above sort of shit was so prevalent, why should I make Americans pay fines when illegals didn't have to?

This is not addressed to legal immigrants at all, i respect every one I ever worked with in the USAF and there were a lot.

I sort of expect to be attacked for my attitude about this, really don't give a damn. Maybe not on this forum, we'll see.

When someone needs help, I will help them so that they don't go hungry. what they do with that help is between them and God. I don't feel like it is my place to judge. This issue was created by several factors. The abuse and persecution of these workers and their children is ungodly. It is close to slavery in some instances of the abuse. Walk a mile in their shoes

Hell no, why do people from other countries live here tax free for seven years? They own most of the hotels and convenience stores, if I wanted a loan to buy a hotel, they would throw me out of the bank,the only thing we should give them is transportation out of this country, god bless the u.s.a

Its sad that our country rather give this benefits to them than help veteran.We as veterans sacrifice ourselves to protect our country,but no.They rather give all this benefits to them, and throw us to the side.

Moot point. They can’t access public assistance.

I do not believe that illegal immigrants should be able to use our system at all. They are in this country ILLEGALLY! Send them back to the country they came from and they can come into this country the legal way.
I have absolutely NO problem with immigrants, as long as they have went through the proper channels and are here legally. That is how this country was built.
God Bless America.

Recognizing there are a lot of individuals that the general public consider "illegal aliens"; simply because they ARE of a different nationality, although they might be legal due to ;work, student, or marriage visas. That said: visas take time to renew and there is a difference between someone who avoided the visa process and crossed the boarder rather than got bound up in red tape. There still, to me, is no reason to provide any 'public assistance' to someone who intentionally is an illegal alien other than the free transportation and meal on the way back to their own country - the 1st time. Second time they get jailed until such time as their Embassy recovers them. Maybe we need bring back Ellis Island? Or some other place which could be used as holding place for inprocessing / verifying background checks / appealing visa extension requests or other needs??