I agree. Along with a temporary stop to immigration, we need to stop all welfare and free medical care for immigrants. If we moved to France today, we would not be allowed to get on their socialized medicine for 5 years even though we’d have to pay taxes as soon as we arrived. That’s common sense. Instead, people come here illegally to get free medical care, housing and food. And, of course, we reward their illegal presence with citizenship for their offspring. These ridiculous actions are not the correct way to run a country. Is it any wonder we are bankrupt?

45 – Bob mentioned earlier there is problem with the site that will be resolved in a couple days and to be patient… so I guess that’s what we need to do.

Trista:

According to some lawyers, finding out ahead of time is the equivalent to forcing them to testify against themselves – against the 5th Amendment for American citizens. You would be taking evidence from their physical forms without a search warrant. And after they are accepted, it is also illegal for the same reasons. And if they are here legally (or even illegally according to some lawyers and libs), then they are guaranteed medical treatment even if they can’t afford it. One reason that the entire argument about why we need Oblamacare is false.

Raggs, you are right on the money!

One subsidized by the American taxpayers.

I talked to a missionary from SE Asia a couple of years ago. He was trying to work with some Vietnamese in camps in Thailand who had fled Vietnam.

He said he had an almost impossible time trying to get them to get jobs and helpt themselves. The reason? The Feds were always telling them that when their immigration number came up they could come to America and get cars and nice houses and TV’s and …

And they did. As soon as they arrived the government would move them into apartments with two months rent already paid. And as soon as the two months were up, they started receiving welfare checks without even having to apply for them. I think it is San Mateo in California that has more of them on welfare than they have citizens. They interviewed one of them and he was all excited about being able to spend his welfare check to buy a new entertainment system.

They get a hand up…while the rest of us get a slap down!

Reckless, don’t you worry about the total of our population NOW? There are so many people here today that have no jobs. Our utilities are over burdened. Yes, I understand that majority of people in America came from immigration, but that was many years ago, when the government required all that were arriving to assimilate to the American way of life. Now, those immigrants arrive and demand WE assimilate to them and our government passes laws to protect them by declaring them to be “minorities”. There are laws for all “minorities” now. When you put that many different types of people together, and everyone is fighting to have their way, it’s a mess. Today, you have the “legal” mexicans here fighting to give the “illegal” mexicans the same rights as Americans. Everyone wants America to be what THEY want, instead of what America has stood for for 235 years.

Reckless1, I agree with you about the diversity aspect and the thought that our country was founded on this principle. I think our country has evolved to the point though where we need to limit all immigration while we have a high unemployment rate. After unemployment has returned to a lower percentage, we need to manage immigration to limit the number of unskilled laborers, as we have a glut of them. Further, our failing education system provides us with an enormous quantity of unskilled laborers with 49% of blacks and 45% of Hispanics dropping our of high school each year.

True, our country is made up of LEGAL immigration. Those immigrants were also controled. Two percent of those immigrants were returned due to illness. Yes, those immigrants were subject to health inspection among other things. Nothing ever said about the 40% who didn’t stay. In any event it was a controlled immigration. Deadly deseases have been reintroduced into this country. They are breaking our charities. Obama wants to increase funding to those who do not and never did pay into the system. What about Pelosi’s comment that Social Security was SELF funded until 2023?? Why is Obama threatening our Social Security payouts if this is true. Are they lieing to the American people? Politicians spent it, that is why! Now they cannot pay it back! I also paid into Medicare through my payroll over the years. Why are we giving money to countries that hate us. Why are we rebuilding mosqes in the middle east? Why can’t we get rid of a few czars and cut studies like the size of a mans penis related to his homosexuality? I am sick of the tree huggers and oil production in this country. Obama wants wind generated energy and the tree huggers say it kills birds. This administration needs to get on the same page! Obama and all the Socialist establishment wants to turn the US into a third world country. Hungry, needy people are easier to control.

I happen to concur.

Here is a couple differences between a legal and illegal immigrant.

While both groups contain hard working individuals, the legal immigrant obeyed the law. This does not guarantee that they will obey all laws, all the time. But the foundation that they obeyed the first law of legal immigration does create a foundation to obey future laws. In contrast, as long as the illegal immigrant continues to break the first law they violated by being an illegal immigrant, it can make them comfortable with the law they have broken and thus lead to ignoring other laws or seeing them as not applicable to themselves. If the first violation continues to be a bother for them, it will still encourage them to practice dishonesty in employment or other means to provide themselves with food shelter and clothing.

And natural born Americans have gotten lazy through the entitlement system in the United States, so I would gladly take a bunch of legal immigrants. For if they are doing this legally, what are the odds that they have a strong work ethic and are self-motivated? These are people that could make great entrepreneurs, investors, inventors, and laborers. The legal immigrant could be instrumental in rebuilding America. Perhaps with a large enough infusion of legal immigrants we could have actual honest politicians in America again because the few legal immigrants I know of actually seem to care about the quality of their representative then the average citizen. There is Canadian at my day job who just got his US citizenship and I was amazed how much more interested he was in just who the politicians were and there stands on the issues than the average person. He actually care about the future of American and not just the here and now that we get so caught up in. Could be just the limited exposure I’ve had to legal immigrants, but I will currently take them over the nanny-state children we’ve been raising.

Totally do not agree….

Claire, the DEMS want illegals…especially to vote leftist!..
They like and want to keep “anchor” babies for the same reason, and that amounts to over 100,000 per year..Eventually there will only be leftists, and the rest of us will be crowded out, or be done away with, as “Unable to be retrained”!! It is coming, unless we can stop the anchor babies!! Remember? Obozo our Liar in chief wanted to make a State of Puerto Rico? it’s still in the works! it would add a few million more leftists, Liberals…Dems…whatever you want to call them!