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

Hell no. They should be deported as soon as they are found. They should immigrate legally or not at all. A drain on tax payer dollars.

Nope. The only "assistance" I think that should be provided to illegal aliens is bona fide life saving care at an emergency room. After that deportation.

Hell no! It sickens me, all the homeless and non homeless vets out there who need help but there is no funding available! But the damn government bends over backwards for the illegals.

They can't receive public assistance. Only people who can't read think they can.

First of all let's lay the ground work......to be here illegally means one thing.....you are a criminal....and criminals should not be rewarded with free hand-outs for being here illegally !! Absolutely no illegal should be given one red cent ! You came here illegally, the only thing that the U.S. owes you is a trip back to your country of origin !!!!

No, public assistance should be reserved to citizens. I believe the amount of Federal and State assistance plus the NGO assistance is a flashing neon sign urging illegal aliens to flood our borders and we will care for them while our Debt rises. Both parties spend money like drunken sailors on liberty for the first time in 6mo, one of them uses our military as a cash cow to remove money from in large amounts for such social programs

Not only 'NO' …. but, illegal aliens should not be allowed here in the first place. We were a nation united by patriotism, love of county, culture, and pride in the country we had inherited from our fathers and forefathers. In the mid 1960s we began to lose those ideals and now we are rapidly moving toward a disunited conglomerate, a territory of multiculturalism - where no one is Americanized.

If we do not change directions soon, we are destined to lose this nation that we inherited and realize the same end-results that befell Rome. Time is rapidly running out and there is much to do, if we are to save this once-great nation! I believe we can succeed, but only if we are brave enough to try. What must we do? Here's a few thoughts....

(1) STOP THE INVASION OF ILLEGALS. Build a triple wall 15 feet high from Texas to California and provide the Border Patrol with the resources they require to fully halt the influx of all illegals to include narcotics and peoples.

(2) END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. Congress can pass legislation to do so and we must demand it of them. This one simple step would eliminate an estimated addition of 400,000 births by illegal aliens each year, which taxpaying citizens are now funding at an estimated cost of $1.2 billion each year. Not to mention follow-on medical and welfare benefit costs.

(3) END CHAIN MIGRATION. Congress can pass legislation which will accomplish this and we must demand that they do so.

(4) TERMINATE DUAL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL AMEREICAN CITIZENS. Congress can pass legislation which will accomplish this and we must demand that they do so.

(5) CONGRESS SHOULD MAKE IT A FEDERAL CRIME FOR ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN TO VOTE IN ANY ELECTION WITHIN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, OR SERVE WITHIN THEIR MILITARY. Congress can pass legislation which will accomplish this and we must demand that they do so. Any U.S. citizen who commits either act should suffer the penalty of fully losing their U.S. citizenship, no exceptions.

(6) DEMAND IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION OF ALL CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS. Congress can pass legislation which will accomplish this and we must demand that they do so. Start with gang members and all illegal aliens irrespective of the crime or nature thereof. GITMO could use some new residents if the native countries will not accept their citizens back. No one knows for sure exactly how many illegal aliens reside in this country; however, current estimates come-in at around 40 million persons - so, it is no small task. Attrition will take care of the problem given time, if we cutoff the magnets that draw illegals to this nation; and, we can do that in steps after we start serious deportation efforts with the criminal elements.

(7) PENALIZE SEVERELY EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE ILLEGALS. Congress can pass legislation which will accomplish this and we must demand that they do so.

(8) PUT AN END TO 'SO-CALLED' SANCTUARY COUNTIES; CITES; AND STATES. Congress can pass legislation which will accomplish this and we must demand that they do so.

(9) IMMEDIATELY INSTITUTE A 10-YEAR MORITORIUM ON ALL FORMS OF IMMIGRATION. Congress can pass legislation which will accomplish this and we must demand that they do so. Since the mid-1960s little if anything has been done to Americanize legal immigrants that have been allowed into this country - simply put, they may have been issued citizenship papers, but they have not assimilated into the fabric of America. We need time for the melting pot of this great nation do work its magic. During this stay on immigration of 10 years or more (if required), we as citizens should be afforded the opportunity to openly debate exactly who WE want to enter our home as future neighbors, friends and countrymen.

The list could go on, but this is a good start if we are to succeed in returning this country to the nation that we respect and loved. Otherwise, if we do none of these things - the nation inherited from the founders and our fathers will indeed perish. Remember.... "We cannot succeed, if we do not try."

Definitely not! Most, if not all countries, have a "public charge" disqualification in their immigration laws. No country has infinite resources, let alone the United States. Therefore, arriving individuals or heads of household must be ready, willing, and able to work. And that does not yet go into the employer sponsorship requirement.

It is bad enough that we have too many of our citizens relying on public assistance; so why should we add to the welfare rolls anyone that has not contributed to the tax base in the past and has no means to pay into it now or in the future? Of course, this raises the question of how our poor contribute when they have limited means. The poor defray part of their public funds consumption by paying taxes on alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and the exploitation called lottery. Again, it does not completely cover their public dependency, no matter how attached they are to the aforementioned vices.

NO

actually no we have enough problems homeless veterans public assistance for elderly as long they can read wrote and walk they should work like everyone else congress and house cater to them I say ship them back