So what's the policy here in North Carolina regarding illegal immigrants and driving privileges? Up until a month ago illegal immigrants could get a driver's licenses in North Carolina.
State legislators recently passed a law that closed the last loophole that allowed illegal immigrants to get drivers licenses. That law tightened what a person is required to show at the DMV to prove citizenship status.
Now a person has to have a social security number or visa to be in the US.
Rep. Carolyn Justice helped push through the legislation that tightened the requirements.
Opposition groups argued illegal immigrants need to be able to drive so they can keep jobs that legal citizens don't want to do, like in farming and construction.
But Rep. Justice told me today that she doesn't buy that argument. She questions whether employers truly need illegal immigrants or just like having them on their workforce because they'll work for less money.
you people just dont get it
wow you people dont get it do you!! ever since yall took away there licenses the economy crashed!!!!!!!!!! think about it they dont buy cars no more, dont pay insurance, dont get a job, ect!! no money for you period!! but yea go on ahead and kick them out we will see the effects not them!!
Law closes illegal immigrant driver's license loophole
I am for closing any loopholes. The answer is pretty simple. Just like the birds, if you take away all the bird feeders in your back yard they will leave. It isn't just North Carolina doing this. I was told it is every state.
Wow!
I didnt read everyones comments, but this is what i got from the majority, and i know this is off topic but we this stype of thinking we are not getting anywhere.
Wow! Its nothing personal, but i read over half the stuff people were saying, and all of you are too simple minded. How do you make an arguement with out looking at the possible cause & effects, all the possible negative and possitive effects. All i hear is people talking about colleges, money, tax, and stating your different points of view without considering anything else. It can easily be seen that no one has done any research, yet you argue like you know what you are talking about, like your idea is valid. I only saw abuot 3 people that were open minded. The rest were completely for or against IAs, making their statements completely week. I dont know about the yall, but it sounds to me like we are still in the same state of mind as in the past with african-american slaves, the "send them back to africa" type of thing. I mean, its pretty much the same thing, but with IAs. They are here, and they wont leave, and no one has comed up with any alternate possible solution other than "Build a gieant wall, and shoot them." Always talking abuot America and its freedom, desciminating illigal immigrants, and not coming up with anything possitive for them and for us. we are still in this simple mind set. True or not?
Apartment raids for illegals
Because of the "Fair Housing Act" there are apartment housing complexes in Wilmington that are now having to provide data to the Federal Government about how (method) the people that rent there are paying, services provided, and numbers of occupants/tenants in each dwelling.
New Hanover County Housing Authority itself has the obligation to run background checks on the tenants of the apartments and housing that it manages and report this to the Federal Government.
NHCHA needs to be held accessory to the crime of defrauding the Federal Government when they let criminals stay there. Our taxes might mean something if things like this were not going on.
Illegal already
If you're here male and over 18 and have not registered for the selective service, then the government is coming for you anyway. When illegals are stopped at traffic stops and then held they will be check in the data base and then they can be charged with a Federal crime. Then deported.
The noose tightens.
1/2 right
Only if you are born here are you required to register with selective service unless you immigrated and naturalized.
Those guys older than service age can't be charged.
But they are illegal anyway. Sooner or later they will be caught with the new laws in NC.
Any driving accident in NC that results in an injury can be processed as a felony charge if there are reasons to prosecute the driving incident. And now, the state of NC has to determine the legal citizenship of anyone that is charged with a felony. Deport follows due course.
I can see the dramatic increase of drive-offs now that this is out and the word is spreading. 400,000 illegal aliens leaves a lot of statistical room for accidents.
Go to mexico
To all you illegal immigration rights advocates I ask you to do this. Sneak across the border into mexico, ask for a job, free education, healthcare, and a drivers license and see what happens to you. I believe your treatment would be a little harsher than the way we reward our illegal immigrants for destroying the middle class way of life in America today.
I can't believe it!
This is almost unreal! I actually agree with what commonsense is saying. That has to be a first! This country is goin to become just as bad as mexico if we don't do something about it soon! They come over here to trash our country just as they have done their own. If you want to be in america, then become a citizen! Enough said!
dream land? or the land of nightmares?
I think that you all should make an individual identify themselfs with a source of identification that is legally correct and not a falcified identity. but we are taking the privilege of driving from an intire community that have followed the rules and have a clean record. Illegal in the United States of America but have been behaved better than a Citizen of this country. Yes they broke the law by entering this country illegally but they did it for needing a better life for that individual and his/her family. I dont think it's right to punish those individuals because they are trying to live the dream not get caught in this nightmare that we are making them go through by terrorising their priviliges. I as a 17 year old would like to ask from yall compasion and consideration of these individuals because i think that we are taking away an american like value to those individuals and their teenage kids who want to drive to school like all their peers but cant do so because of their illegal status. please give those good people a chance to be like every other legal citizen of this country.
Oh please stop!!!
PLEASE!!!! Stop beating this horse... it is dead!!!! I can't believe my eyes! I AM 40 and I agree with the 17 yr old. For Pete sake, where is the love of your fellow human? Or do you morons think because they are illegal they are not human or even our equals. In the eyes of God we are brothers, weather you like it or not. God does not care what your nationality, he rewards compassion and kindness. They are illegal, SO WHAT, at least they work, and don't give me that crap about them taking “our” jobs, if you were going to work one, you would already have one and they can't take it if your doing it right. Blame the company executives who want thicker pockets and sent jobs south. I for one am sick of hearing all the pissin and moanin about what they are taking away from "US". We have taken way more from them how would like your dignity and freedom taken and questioned just because your chose to try to make a better life for your family. Any of you who have ever traveled to their country will know that you are treated with dignity and respect no matter where you go. Be compassionate and kind not judgmental or cruel and again...so what if they are not "legal" citizens, they are still citizens. Citizens of this country and the majority of them follow the laws of the land. Please don't say if they can't follow the one law to get here how can they follow any other law, well to this I say, if you even got a speeding ticket, a parking ticket or forgot to pay for something, how can YOU follow the laws? You broke one already? Please do not forget that they may be illegal but they ARE human and deserve kindness. Let us also please remember that even though "Julio" and "Consuela" are illegal, most of their children are born here which makes them entitled to every right afforded to you and your children! So live with it, as a matter of fact, with “Julio” and “Consuela” being illegal, they can’t file a tax return and get back any of the money they pay out in Social security and Fed and state taxes. So… who is really paying for the welfare system to stay afloat? Try walking in someone else’s shoes before you start yelling about what “They” are doing.
It make sense to me to take away a way of them obtaining legal drivers licenses, they will still drive they still need to get to work and school and doctor appointments and grocery stores and unfortunately it will end up most likely driving without a license and insurance, who will end up paying for that? I’ve got 10watt light bulbs brighter than the leaders and law makers of this state and country.
GOD HELP US ALL!!!
Office
If you are so intelleigent why don't you run for public office and straighten this mess out?
You just lost your spot
You just lost your spot for getting into a college because the illegal criminals spell better than you and now they have more "priviledges" than you. They have a right now to a better education than you can afford and at your blue collar job tax money expense for the rest of your life.
Are you so dim you can't see the train that just hit you? If you are, then maybe you deserve it. Darwinism is a b*tch and the dumbest don't survive!
Compassion?
You're seventeen years old. Get back to us about that "compassion" when you're a productive, tax-paying member of society, watching the money you contribute every payday going to pay for TANF, food vouchers, and Medicaid when Julio is locked up for DWI and Consuela needs to feed the seven ninos.
BTW, you're missing a critical point of this issue - since they're not citizens, and came here illegally, they don't DESERVE the same rights as citizens. Why are you so willing to think that as an American citizen, you're nothing special?
To Dream Land
My, my , my ....all of 17 years of age....thinking you have the answer to all of the problems with illegals in this country. Well, when you can't get a job, because they are all being given to illegals, or can't afford health insurance, because the cost of your insurance is helping to pay for the illegals who use our hospitals and don't pay, when you get out in the world on your own, out from under your parents purse strings, come back in a few years and see if you still feel the same way!!!!
Let's do something...
Yes. Let's all call Governor Easley at 1-800-662-7952 and tell him exactly what we think of Illegals. And then, call the legislature at 919-733-6854 and 919-733-3451.
Why in the world do illegals
Why in the world do illegals want a drivers license to start with????
If illegals don't care about breaking the laws being here illegally, then.......??????
Our government law makers are "too" law breakers themselves having ignored these issues for years, now all of a sudden it's an issue?????
Too many stress/pain meds flowing through their veins keep them from clear decision making.
No doubt our government (Washington,D.C. or state by state) needs an enema, with a capital "E".
Vote? What about other stuff?
Hey lady, what about my child having to pay out the butt for school and then an illegal alien can come in and get free tuition and then get a pass in the classes because it would be discrimination or something to flunk the freeloader?????
Something needs to be done about this! And sooner the better. Somebody doing something illegal should NOT BE REWARDED at all! And that should include first and foremost, crossing the border.
Next step is white collar American working class coming in from the cabbage fields being in comics. China would OWN us, Mexicans would boss us, and everyone else would wonder what the hell happened to us!!!!!!!!!
Forget foreign policy, let's start doing something serious about "At Home Policy!"
This is the real reason you are angry, read history...sad
It conjures up the alarm bells that Benjamin Franklin set off about German immigrants in the late 18th century, who he insisted could never adopt the culture of the English, but would "swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours." It popped up in the mid-19th century amid worries that Chinese immigrants were "unassimilable," which led to Congress approving the explicitly-named Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. And it helped welcome the 20th century when Massachusetts Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge warned that immigrants (read: the Irish) were diluting "the quality of (U.S.) citizenship" and others complained that Italian immigrants were uneducated, low skilled, apt to send all their money to their home country and prone to criminal activity.
Where have we heard that before? And when will we hear it again? After all, Hispanics may be the latest group to find themselves in a culture war with nativists. But they won't be the last.
Times change
We didn't have to pay TANF, WIC, food vouchers and Medicaid to any of the groups you mention.
History is great, but no more important than Economics.
The immigration problem needs to become a non-problem. Close the border, now, and establish a port of entry every fifty miles, where migrant workers could apply for work visas. People that are already here could apply by mail and should be given priority.
That way we can get a handle on exactly how many have and how many we need.
Let them work tax free and keep every penny of their earnings. The trade-off? Absolutely no benefits whatsoever other than emergency medical care....for which they will be financially liable.
Work visas could be good for three years with one extension. After that, they should have already applied for citizenship or can return home.
America is indeed addicted to the cheap labor these people provide, but right now the sitaution is out of control. We ned to manage it, not end it.
Common sense
Good points to consider, Common. Nice to see that you are alive and thriving over here. I think maybe we should put these ideas onto paper and fly them by the political powers that are FOR illegals. Maybe they will consider these thoughts as options. I am all for what you are suggesting. Very forthright and open eyed.
At least you try to make sense
You at least try to make some sense and admit the importance of the Migrant workers, the only thing I don't agree with you is that TANF, WIC, food vouchers and Medicaid are only for US Citizens which many on the immigrants kids are, with some exceptions to legal immigrant with more than 5 years with permanent resident (green card) so the undocumented immigrants are not elegible for those benefits. But once again at least you are inform and educated not motivated by hate and ignorance.
Guest44, You left out one
Guest44, You left out one important fact, all of what you said about immigrants in the past may be true, except for one itsy, bitsy difference.... they were LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!!!
The majority of the latinos today are not, that is the issue....not because they are latinos.
It was not such a thing
It was not such a thing: a LEGAL immigrant, people used to show up to port of entry (Ports more likely) and enter the country with none o little paper work, off course those times has passed, and things have change, measure to control immigration are neccesary but hatefulness, xenophobic thinking are not the answer.
To Guess 44
"measure to control immigration are neccesary but hatefulness, xenophobic thinking are not the answer".
I don't see how wanting to enforce the laws that are already on the books to keep out illegal immigrants as "hateful, xenophobic thinking".
LEGAL Citizens are tired of working and seeing their tax dollars benefit illegals, via education, foodstamps, medical assistance, preference to hiring because of cheap labor, etc, etc. They are frustrated and want some support from the State and Federal government. You seem to think that the legal citizens of this country that express that frustration are hateful, and xenophobic. I think you are wrong to put hard working legal citizens into that type of classification.
OMG!!!
Yeah I'd rather my tax dollars go to 500 toilet seats and 300 hammers. I guess the Latinos are the scape goat with whats wrong with the US today.. HUHMMM wonder who gets the ball next!
Conjures
It also conjures up images of people sneaking into this country illegally.
Don't hate cuz Illegals are smart!
hahahaha! your jelous because an illgal immigrant can come and get a full tuition and your kid cant?? well thats pretty stupid.. maybe you should tell your child to work hard toward it just like the illegal kid did.. after all they dont just give out free tuitions out of the blue! and they probably weren't being rewarded for being illegal, they were rewarded for the essay they turned in, what they worked at, or whatever the requirements were for getting that free tuition! ☺ I dont really think you should talk until you see it from an "ILLEGAL's", as you call them, point of view! I think that if you were in that country and born in that country you would be doin the same thing just to keep your family well. They dont do this just cuz they want to be rebels and destroy the economy. They just want to keep their families alive as much as you and I do! ☺
Smart Illegals....
Yes, they are smart...some are very hard-working people with wonderful family values. But, if you know just a bit of Spanish, you'd be amazed by what you hear when they have NO IDEA you can understand...One brother comes here illegally, and, YES, despite what has been aforementioned, they DO get all kinds of priveleges that we LEGAL, BORN IN THE USA do not get, or have to gravel for. So, brother one gets here via I40, wife has a baby here, they get medical, food, cash, housing, language...the assisstance goes on. This man can get a FEDERAL grant for a business, own uit tax free foe THREE years, then pass the sole proprietorship on to brother #2, who does the same...not all of them are drug dealers/smugglers, but these people that do what I just mentioned are getting around the law, thus BREAKING it. And it is not just the Hispanics, they are from all over the world- come in on the premis of going to an American college, then, BOOM, the whole family slips in, getting all kinds of tax and interest free home and business loans. My husband has been very ill for 6 years, I had a round of cancer in the midst of his illness- one facet of which is cancer. I CANNOT get insurance without PROVING I was born here!!! I have tax forms dating to the early 80's, license, SSN, voter's registration, and they still have to PROVE I have a US birth cert...
I agree with you 100
I agree with you 100 percent. I don't know if you have ever been to mexico, but I have, and let me tell you, after you see what it looks like over there and what the schools look like and how their schools are run(if the kids say that they are tired the teachers say okay you can just go home, and the kids walk back home) it Isn't any wonder why they come here. And good luck trying to find a job there. I have never worked there but my husband (mexican) has. He says that if you find a good job you only make about 100 pesos, which is what its called there, which isn't but about, at the most 10 dollars. Every one that I know that has come here from mexico has come here only so they can have a better life for themselves and their children. And to the person saying that the children should not be enrolled in our schools.... How would you feel if someone told you that your child could not go to school because their skin was a different color or they spoke a another language than what the other kids speak.YOU REALLY NEED TO GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Smart
They have to be smart. Do you know how hard it is to elude the Border Patrol as you enter this country illegally?
Actually, yeah I do know how
Actually, yeah I do know how hard it is to get across the border. Do YOU know the things that happen to some of the people that try to get here. There are people who just sit out there waiting for some one to cross the river and when they some one they rob them and take every thing that they have. money, shoes, and they even take the clothes off of their backs if they see something that they like. And some times if the person crossing does not have anything that the robber likes, the robber will just straight shoot the person. Man, woman, or child. SO YEAH I THINK I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO CROSS THE BORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the more reson to stay home
Nope, no sympathy here for the poor illegal criminals that come here. Shut down those that employ them, burn their trailer shanties and brand 'em on the forehead with a big "IA" for illegal alien. Then send them back.
I'm voting for the Democrat that wants to do the most about this scourge on our country!
Tears for a once Great Nation
"Opposition groups argued illegal immigrants need to be able to drive so they can keep jobs that legal citizens don't want to do, like in farming and construction."
People, does this make any sense? Americans can and will do these jobs when we are able to get paid the amount of money we need to survive in America by doing these jobs. Many Americans do not get medicad, food stamps, etc to supplement the income of these farming and construction jobs that "Americans do not want".
This country is soon to become the third world country it is trying to strive to be. Our children are suffering in schools where the teachers have to take time out to get illegals up to speed. Dumbing down America is what is happening- it is not a racial thing, it is about how we are going to compete in this world market. In the near future, we Americans will be working the farming and construction jobs because we will have no other option. China, Japan, etc will need us dumb Americans to do this for them because we were too busy trying to be a dual society, appeasing the illegal invaders, giving hords of cash out to non-citizens, not taking care of our own, not giving our children the opportunity to succeed in this world market, etc...must I go on. If we don't band together now and make Washington know how we feel, we are doomed to be subserviant to the rest of the world and there will be no America to be proud of. I served in two different branches of the military...I was so proud, but now as I watch this dumbing down of America, I am so ashame to be an American....I have tears just thinking of what is to come of this once Great Nation. We are being invaded and our government just let it happen...why are we fighting in the Middle East when the invasion is here. Our leaders should be fired and our laws should be burned because they do not mean anything anymore.
Tears
God Bless You, you could not have said it better.
No right to talk!
I say until you are an illegal immigrant and you see the hardship they go through, you should have no room to talk because you dont know their life.. You dont know if their baby is dying and they need money to save his life, you dont know if they just want to be a part of this country and become a citizen because they love this country. I agree that there are many here that just come to harm the economy and those must defenatly go back. But most are good people that earn their money the hard way and get paid less.. WAY LESS.. than minimum wage. I dont think an american would slave out in the hot sun for hours and hours a day just to make $4 an hour. Most immigrants just want to feed their family and keep them alive just as much as legal people here do. They just have it harder because its not their fault they were born into a country that does not offer much at all. So until You have experienced what it's like to be an immigrant, dont opinionate on what you dont know!
To Ana - No right to talk...
To Ana - No right to talk... I beg your pardon, I have every right has a legal citizen of this country to talk about the problems of illegal immigrants. Yes, I served this country in the military, I work and pay taxes. I have every right to express my opinion on this matter, I earned it!!!! I have the right to not want illegal immigrants in this country that drain the system that they have not contributed to. When the illegal immigrants can get help via the health system, food stamps, education, etc and the citizens of this country can't... then, yes I have the right to object and voice that objection. When an elderly widowed woman that lives on less than $900 a month from social security and is denied assistance via food stamps because she is told her income is too much to qualify, but illegals that cannot even speak the language can pay for two grocery carts full of food with food stamps, than yes I have the right to speak up and say that is wrong!!!!
You are just so hung up on the illegal immigrants hardships that you don't even realize that there are legal citizens having just as many hardships and can't even get help. Before you condemn the homeless in the streets, you better know what you are talking about. Not all homeless people are lazy, drunks, or drug addicts. There a quite a few that work, but don't earn enought to afford a place to live. There are quite a few that end up homeless because they lost a job and was not able to find another job making enough to keep their home. It is a common saying that most Americans are just one paycheck away from ending up homeless. But, I guess the hardships these legal citizens have experienced don't compare to what illegal immigrants endure according to you.
Enough said to you. You are just too closed minded to understand what the legal citizens of this country are so upset about. When you get down and out and are turned away for help from the system you paid into, you can always count on your illegal immigrants friends to help you out right??? By the way, most of the illegals that people encounter are from Mexico, so that is why so many refer to the illegals as Mexicans. I know that not all Latinos are from Mexico, and that all illegal immgrants are not Latinos. But the majority are, so it is understandable how people can mistake illegals has all coming from Mexico. That don't make them a racist.
Illegal Aliens
I agree with you 100%. There should be enough ICE agents hired to round all of them up and returned to their own country. If they are caught a second time there should be a prison sentence given to them, and after they serve their time then deport them again.
Knock, Knock, anyone home???
put them in jail? ICE agents? what about that taxpayers money that you were just talking about? both of those things cost money, u know. and i don't think that they keep really strict records of who comes over, and it sounds like they just ship them back b/c there are too many to make a really sophisticated system. plus i read an article that talked about how an illegal that does the same job as a legal actually pays more in taxes b/c they have to be paid from an already taxed paycheck, etc....
To Ana
If they would come over here legally they would not have to endure such hardships. I don't care what their country is like, I just don't want this country to become like theirs!!! The hardships they endure are of their own making because they choose to jump the border ILLEGALLY. The citizens in the USA did not hold a gun to their heads and force them to come over here illegally. I think that they should all be declared outlaws and the citizens be allowed to round them up and send them back!!!!! Maybe you should join them since you seem to like them so much!!!!
WEBSTER"S DEFINITION OF ILLEGAL - prohibited by LAW; against the law.
Gee, Ana, is this a clue has to why so many are against them coming here?????
Its funny how all you try to
Its funny how all you try to be so selfish and completely dont even get my point. Im just trying to get across here that ALL IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT BAD!! Ok so go ahead and build your stupid wall on the border... yea put more patrol cars over there.. they will still find a way.. all im sayin is you would do the same thing if it was your family that needed the money. and why send all illegals back when you know that alot of them have better jobs than you! and yea go ahead and see everything through the eyes of this world. Man im not tryin to sound like a preacher or a goody good but i look at everything and think about what Jesus would think. but then again all people dont believe in him and the ones that do and still talk about other people like this, immigrant or not, is a straight liar. I know whats right and i know whats wrong. The only crime these people are committing is trying to keep themselves and their family well! so you think whatever you want and why dont you go and see how their life is like then dare to speak again. man im 17 and i cant believe im speaking more sense than you are. how sad these people that call themselvs americans today. Cant even lend a hand to people in need.. but whatever. You listen to your precious government. When judgement day comes you'll see whats right and your gonna regret it! =] peace out hommie!
Ana
Ana: "ALL IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT BAD!!"
It is ONLY THE ILLEGAL ONES Deary. The legal ones have all the rights we do. Nothing irks me more than listening to bleeding hearts telling ME how we should except these ILLEGALS when my family got here the legal and HARD way.
The tax paying citizens of this country do nothing but LEND A HAND to the entire world.
illegals
Illegal means against the law, if you are an Illegal immigrant who cares how difficult it is for you in America you shouldnt be here! Go your wet backasses home and tell your people there, they might care!
America is a FREE COUNTRY!
Atleast thats what they keep saying huh?? Because its the land of the free and the home of the brave! RIGHT?? OK no matter what EVERYONE HERE IS AN IMMIGRANT!!! ONLY ONES THAT ARE SUPPOSE TO BE HERE ARE THE NATIVE AMERICANS!! SO SHUT UP!! and if its a free country why do people keep tellin immigrants to go back?? Isnt it a free country? Maybe yall should change that line on the national anthem....
Ana...are you serious???
Ana...are you serious??? Yes, we are all immigrants. We aren't talking about immigrants. We're talking about ILLEGAL immigrants. Most of us have no problems with immigrants...those that are here legally.
Muy estupido, Paco
Land of the free and home of the brave does not equate to "Land of the suckers and home of the free lunch."
Yes, my great-grandparents were immigrants but they FOLLOWED THE LAW in coming here, waited their five years and became citizens. We didn't print every government document under the sun in their native languages because they WANTED to be Americans and a working knowledge of English was required for citizenship.
They didn't have welfare, WIC, food vouchers and Medicaid to tide them over between daddy's arrests or deportations.
They didn't mob-dash ports of entry, they didn't sneak in under cover of darkness, and they didn't have to worry about being arrested and thrown back across the Atlantic....they came here LEGALLY, and wanted to become a part of America. They didn't want America to become part of their culture.
There's no comparison.
excuse moi
did u ever think that maybe some of them can't wait 5 years to become legal, and that costs the money that they are trying to earn???? some of them pay to become legal after they earn enough money here. and most of them do try to earn their place later on. they DO want to become legal, and they leave their culture, bringing only very little of their past to a place that has been called "the melting pot" as in everyone brings a bit of culture and creates wat we call america. btw, if you threw them across the atlantic they would go to europe......
Did YOU ever think....
..that the rule of law is more important than what illegals WANT?
If the law says that you reside here for five years before applying for citizenship, then that's what you do. No one cares what your hermanas want.
You're excused
My grand parents did it. They made their money in SPAIN before coming to America then on the BOAT they worked on learning English it was a long trip so by the time they reached America they could speak some English. That wasn't good enough for them so they wented to be able to speak fluently and they learned. My grandparents bought a home and got jobs in a factory.They both became citizens. When enough money was saved up, my grandfather started a construction company and built beautiful homes. They volunteered for the war effort and was proud to do what they could for America. My grandfather ran his company for 50 years building a post office and a school for the town as a token of his appreciation to this country, at no cost.
There are thousands of stories people can share about their families that show pride in coming to this MELTING POT.
When my people melted, they joined the American culture they didn't try to get them to foot the bill.
I am second generation American and I am proud of my family and embarrassed that so many come here with their hand out.
Its free to legal immigrants
Ana, I think maybe you are an illegal immigrant that does not know what you are talking about. It is a free country to the people that are legal residents of this country. With that freedom comes responsibilty to be willing to fight for this country, pay taxes and be a responsible citizen. You do not automatically have the rights of American citizens, such as freedom, just because you are on American soil illegallly. You also lose your rights when you commit a crime. Since illegals are already commiting a crime by being here illegally they have no rights, are you so dense that you cannot understand that. People have given their lives so LEGAL CITIZENS can enjoy that freedom. What you are telling me is that their lives meant nothing????? Shame on you if you are a legal citizen of this country, for you have no concept of what was scarificed for that freedom. Nobody is objecting to immigrants coming here legally, it is the excessive amount of illegals pouring into this country that people are tired of. You should say what you said to an American soldier or veteran and see what kind of response you get!!!!
Again
I agree with ANA and I AM a 40 yr old US born Citizen.
It does not bother me a bit for a family legal or illegal, who needs help , for whatever reason to get my tax money. I have worked since i was 15 and I would rather it feed a family or keep them warm than to buy a retreat for a fat cat in government who can afford to pay for his own trip. I am very patriotic and believe in our military and appreciate everything they do for us. Why not open our heart and stop closing our minds.
God Loves you anyway!