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? asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 6 years ago

Does it seem like illegals have more rights than citizens?

Update:

Where do American citizens get a "get out of jail free" card like people that enter the country illegally, drive without a license or insurance and take work with fake papers? Why are they being rewarded?

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  • Robert
    Lv 5
    6 years ago
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    There is a clear double standard. A good example is how we deal with unaccompanied children and family units. If a US citizen deliberately exposed a child to the inherent dangers and criminal elements of crossing illegally, the child would be taken away by CPS and the parents would be charged with child endangerment. Parents of unaccompanied children are guilty of neglect and abandonment. It seems that our Justice system reasons that, hey if, you can't trust a cartel smuggler with your 3 year old, who can you trust?

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    No, they have the SAME rights as citizens, a fact that does not sit well with people like you, mostly because you have not "thought through the consequences" of it being otherwise!

    Do you imagine that the Second Amendment protects your right to walk down the street with a gun in Paris, France? Of course not! You are (I'm sure) intelligent enough to understand that the Gendarmes would "shoot first and ask questions later" if you did something that dumb!

    Similarly, if there is a law against assaulting someone in, say, Arkansas, it applies equally to someone BORN in Arkansas AND an illegal immigrant living there...

    What MOST Americans like yourself have failed to understand is that whilst CROSSING the border illegally is a serious offense, just "being here illegally" is a misdemeanor.....why? Because people overstay their legal visa periods (sometimes even by mistake), or were brought here as infants and have grown up knowing nowhere else, or whatever...

    The delicious irony is that folks just like YOU are perhaps the biggest obstacle in solving this problem!

  • justa
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    No, it doesn't. If you missed it, we have thousands of native born Americans who don't have a drivers license or insurance and they don't work at all. If someone is allowing someone to work for them with faked papers, then maybe we need to go after the person hiring, because in states where they've done that its worked out much better, so well in fact that a couple of states have trouble harvesting their crops.

    Since they are doing, apparently some needed work, and there are requirements, including fees, its not free.

  • 6 years ago

    Are you aware that now a business in America will receive a $3000 bonus for hiring an illegal rather than hiring an American citizen.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/25/ob...

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  • 6 years ago

    Yes...I'm going to renounce my American citizenship today so I can live the privileged and entitled life of an "illegal".

  • 6 years ago

    No.

    Stop believing the lies coming from John Boehner and the rest of the GOP and Fox News.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    With Obama its getting more like it every day

  • Nick
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    No

  • 6 years ago

    No but thanks for asking.

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