Do you feel a $500-$1000 hand out to illegal immigrants is good?

No, the stimulus bill does not include "a provision to give illegals a tax credit," and the article to which you link does not say that it does. What the article says is that the bill "COULD steer government checks to illegal immigrants, a top Republican congressional official ASSERTED Thursday" [emphasis added]. Let me make this clear: the article says that a Republican has claimed that some illegals could get checks.

Remember, however, that there are illegals who receive paychecks and who have income taxes and payroll taxes withheld from their paychecks. At any rate, this whole issue has been blown completely out of proportion. Even if some people get tax credits who don't deserve them, the vast majority of people who get them will.

I just don't understand why we are giving them money when they are illegally in our country. Especially when our own people, who were born and raised as good american citizens are losing their jobs. If these illegal immigrants want the benefits of being an american citizen then they should become one legally.

It's great!

Of course it not good! Don't worry, the illegals are self-deporting now because of the economy. $1000 is not enough to make them stay here.

Each illegal family already costs the USA $2700 per year. Not because they are illegal but because 2/3rds of the illegals are high school drop outs. Make them legal and they will still be stupid. And they will then cost us $9700 per family per year.

We need to make them go home.

Of course it is not good! Guess there is only one person - Obama - who would come up with such idiocracy. Hopefully the Republicans will not let it pass.

Just more welfare, let's completely break America's economic back.