Should We Grant Citizenship to Those Illegals in the Country Now?

I was a Border Patrol Agent in the 1980s when we started increasing border security. Young men used to come here to work for a season and then return to their families to spend their earnings. Since we have increased security, the number of illegals has skyrocketed because it is so difficult to cross that they bring their whole families with them and stay.

We Americans are bureaucrats. We like inflexible one-size-fits all rules. It satisfies our sense of justice. The only legitimate argument for refusing to accept immigration applications from persons who are not in legal status is deterrence. But up to 12 million have not been deterred, so I'd say it is a pointless argument.

We need to trash the Immigration and Nationality Act and start accepting applications from anyone, inside the US or not, and decide whether to grant temporary work permits, permanent residence cards and deportation orders on the basis of whether a given applicant will be a benefit or detriment to the USA. Otherwise we'll just need to do an amnesty every 20 years to clear out the backlog of people who didn't fit our cookie-cutter rules.

I support the Dream Act. God created us all equally. I think we all should be able to pursue our dreams. Children that came here when they were 1 years old have no recollection of the country they were born in. They too have found out what the American Dream is. The process to be legal should be a lot quicker than it is now. Families are separated from one another from years waiting on papers. I'm pretty sure that unless you're of American Indian heritage, your family has immigrated here in one way or another. People have so much unnecessary hate towards "illegals". Their jobs include no healthcare, dental, sick pay, benefits, etc. They work in the freezing snow and the sweltering sun for less than we make. People want their nice driveways, oranges, and new kitchens cheaper than the going rate, but yet they'll still be hippocrites. Back when our economy was blooming, this wasn't our biggest issue. Give our future generations a future and look at what you can do to help others than hurt their chances for a real way to live.

Obama doesn't seem to get it. That is why the Dream Act failed, because the people we recently elected understand that this is not what we want. Of course, to grant the illegals who were brought here as children would just open the doors to even more illegal migration, knowing that all a person would have to do is wait so many years to be given citizenship without having to do anything to earn it.

We should certainly deport them, as all illegal aliens should be. True, we have educated them, provided health care for them and given them other tax payer funded benefits; but that is all the more reason why we should be sending them home, if only to send the message that the free ride on the US tax payer has come to an end. What's wrong with them returning to their birth places to rebuild and make those countries the home they want it to be?

Deport them. Obuma is an insult to every American when he states such garbage. It is bad enough we are FORCED to give them the education we do now. I would like for some of these so called supporters of illegals to actually go into a school full of illegals and see how racist they are, look at the grade point averages of the larger percent of illegals and pay attention to the classes that our children are losing to accommodate these illegals. These so called dream act children hold allegiance to their home country and disrespect this country in many obvious ways. As a teacher, I am totally against the dream act or any type of amnesty for ANY illegal. Their parents made them the criminals they are today. Blame them!

Not just no, but HELL NO! What SHOULD happen is that a bounty should be offered for locating them. That would put Americans to work, snag up the illegals, and get millions of them out of the country and off the public dole. That's an all-round win in my book.

The illegals screwed their own kids when they forced them to live here illegally. It's no one's fault but their own, and American citizens should not have to be plopping down their hard-earned dollars to support them in any way. I have no problem whatsoever with legal immigrants. It's the illegals that I am dead set against.

whether, shall we purely stop giving the unlawful immigrant mum and dad of youngsters born interior the U.S. particular privilege in legal status. Then, while unlawful immigrants provide start, it does not help them, yet we additionally do no longer eliminate start-applicable citizenship.

no we should not!!! i do not support obama!!! i think we should all report the illegals and then round them all up, take to a desolate place in camps and bomb the **** out of the them and those who survive shoot them down.

It failed to pass the senate last week.