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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ABSOLUTELY NOT! We need to take care of our own with the Vets being #1 first and foremost . Too many Americans are already scamming the system, leaving those that truly deserve deprived .
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SGT Steven Hines
Veteran status does not mean jack. When i was out of work for 20 months back in 2000, and i applied for food stamps (snap) I was told i made to much money on unemployment. Yet in the office there was an Hispanic lady waiting with 4 kids hanging on her and pregant. Anybody wanna guess how much she got?
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No! Illegals are not entitled to any of the benefits enjoyed by US Citizens. They committed a Federal crime by breaking into the US. The deserve a speedy and fair deportation hearing and a ticket on the next bus/boat/plane out of the US.
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AA Joseph Moody
After they do time in jail first for breaking a law. Make that cost them ten years, adding a personal cost to a crime can do quite a bit to make people reconsider their actions.
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Being here illegally means that you are a criminal and as such they belong in jail until they can be deported. The only meals that they are provided should be standard jail meals. The same for life saving medical care. Those caught here a second time should be put to work on a chain gang for a period of time before being deported.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
And hand in hand with that, the American company that illegally hired them should be on the same chain gang. If you caught me and send me back, bad luck. I'll try again next time. But if I come back the second time and the company that hired me is no longer in business... Then thats an enchilada of a different flavor...
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MSG Biran Colwell
When we fill our Jails with illegals we are still paying for there care, costing the tax payers thousands of dollars to hold them tell they are deported which is not fare to the tax payers. And yes our Government should uphold the immigration laws that was put into place and those who brake them should be held accountable.
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AA Joseph Moody
It is not fair to the taxpayers to pay for pedophiles in jail either, but at the end of the day there needs to be a personal price for breaking the law, otherwise there will be no respect for the law.
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Something to also keep in mind is that quite often there is ID theft involved with this as well
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/22/14-million-illegals-working-stolen-social-security/
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Something to also keep in mind is that quite often there is ID theft involved with this as well
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/22/14-million-illegals-working-stolen-social-security/
1.4 million illegals working under stolen Social Security numbers: Audit
Most illegal immigrants who pay taxes have stolen someone else’s legal identity, and the IRS doesn’t do a very good job of letting those American citizens and illegal immigrants know they’re being impersonated, the tax agency’s inspector general said in a new report released Thursday.
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In a word, no. The whole "illegal" part should sum that up pretty concisely.
Thoughts to the opposite of that confound me, though. For example, the states where university students here illegally are 1.) allowed to enroll, attend, & graduate; and 2.) granted in-state tuition rates when out-of-state citizen students are not.
In addition, the college my wife currently attends requires parking permits to park on campus. The idea was all fine and dandy until someone bought up the idea that it was unfair to those here illegally because to get a permit you have to possess a driver's license, and the illegals (supposedly) cannot get one. The fact that they shouldn't be driving without a license ought to have rendered it a moot point anyway, last I heard there was still serious consideration underway to abolish the whole parking permit system on that reason alone.
Although not welfare or public assistance on the second example, I just can't wrap my head around the logic behind that thinking.
Thoughts to the opposite of that confound me, though. For example, the states where university students here illegally are 1.) allowed to enroll, attend, & graduate; and 2.) granted in-state tuition rates when out-of-state citizen students are not.
In addition, the college my wife currently attends requires parking permits to park on campus. The idea was all fine and dandy until someone bought up the idea that it was unfair to those here illegally because to get a permit you have to possess a driver's license, and the illegals (supposedly) cannot get one. The fact that they shouldn't be driving without a license ought to have rendered it a moot point anyway, last I heard there was still serious consideration underway to abolish the whole parking permit system on that reason alone.
Although not welfare or public assistance on the second example, I just can't wrap my head around the logic behind that thinking.
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PO3 David Cerino
First you need to specify what do you mean by "illegal".
Because in college, you can enroll with a student visa, and in some cases you can enroll as an undocumented.
It's not hard to wrap your head around this when you look at if from a money making process.
Whether you are undocumented or studying with a student visa, you are going to have to pay the tuition anyway.
There's no relief. No financial aid.
And undocumented people will pay out of state tuition anyway.
As for the parking issue, that's just stupid.
Someone was probably trying to make a dumb argument.
As if the people that overcame the odds in a different country couldn't take a bus
Because in college, you can enroll with a student visa, and in some cases you can enroll as an undocumented.
It's not hard to wrap your head around this when you look at if from a money making process.
Whether you are undocumented or studying with a student visa, you are going to have to pay the tuition anyway.
There's no relief. No financial aid.
And undocumented people will pay out of state tuition anyway.
As for the parking issue, that's just stupid.
Someone was probably trying to make a dumb argument.
As if the people that overcame the odds in a different country couldn't take a bus
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No! Of course also think that day to day and official business should only be conducted in English.
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Came legally to this country in 1963 at that time I had to have a sponsor money in the bank and a job. The government specifically said I was not eligible for any type of government assistance for a period of 5 years. My sponsor was responsible for my health and welfare for that period of time.I came to the USA with the specific intent of joining the army and going to Vietnam. I had served 3 years in the Canadian Army before coming here and I was considered as prime candidate/catch I joined the Army the day after I arrived here.I did not get to RVN until January of !968 and I went a second time in September 1969. I had the honor of becoming a becoming a a US citizen in 1967 before I went to RVN the first time. This country did not owe me anything but gave me every thing I do not understand how ILLEGAL ALIENS( not immigrants) think that this country owes them any anything.
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