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| Yes | 18% | 75 votes | Total: 427 votes | |
| No | 82% | 352 votes |
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Should illegal immigrants be entitled to receive benefits? The United States relationship with the undocumented community and whether they should receive benefits cannot be a...read more
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As a beacon of freedom and opportunity, the United States has long been a nation of immigrants. Millions of tireless, hardworking people around the world can only dream of a lif...read more
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by K. Zimmerman
Basic affordable health care should be recognized as fundamental right for all human beings but especially for children. Efforts to restrict that right for recent immigrant ch...read more
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First let me say that I believe that basics such as medical care, food, and clothing are basic human rights. As such I believe everyone regardless of immigrant status should hav...read more
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by Andy Fugdale
Whether you immigrate, whether you do it legally or illegally-It doesn't matter. You still belong to the human race. You live, you breathe, you emote, you bleed, you deserve t...read more
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Illegal immigrants are human beings! Before all! They love and they hate and they deserve to be treated as human beings. So, yes, they should be entitled to health service an...read more
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by Jenna Pavill
Illegal immigrants should receive some benefits. Basic medical care for those who would come to the United States illegally should be extended. Many benefits should NOT be gi...read more
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by Tammy McLean
Should illegal immigrants be entitled to receive benefits? As I consider this question, the faces of the many Hispanic children that go to school with my children flood my mind....read more
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The definition of being human is simply, it is the ability to communicate, care and share. We live in too civilised a society that now cares more of its own than humans as a who...read more
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I think illegal immigrants should receive benefits, after all most are working and paying taxes like ordinary Americans do. If they are working hard like us they should be entit...read more
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by Sarah Hale
Illegal immigrants! We all look around suspiciously looking for the people that would dare to try to steal our rights, but the truth is we are all immigrants, none of our ancest...read more
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by Joseph Malek
Every person on Earth, at one time of another, is or should be entitled to some kind of benefit or benefits. They should receive love for love given. They should be protected fr...read more
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by Lisa Fillers
Why should an illegal immigrant, who has never worked a day in their life in the United States, be able to drain funds off a system that politicians were already saying was goin...read more
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by Buddy Miller
That illegal immigrants are currently drawing benefits from our government is offensive to me. As a compassionate American citizen, I can see that life is not easy for illegal i...read more
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by Alisha Link
Should illegal immigrants be entitled to receive benefits? In a word, NO! Why in the world would any country disperse benefits to people that are breaking our laws by living h...read more
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America has been known as a home for immigrants from nearly everywhere since our founding and even before. Many immigrants have become famous Americans including authors Isabel...read more
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This question and the debabate that would follow seems to be a real no-brainer. Our sovereign nation has borders. Non citizens should be aware that illegal crossing those bord...read more
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by Beth Dukas
America was established by immigrants. A majority of the people in this country have ancestors that were born in another country. I know because mine were. None of my grandparen...read more
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Whoa, hold up! Doesn't illegal mean against the law. Giving illegal immigrants benefits is like saying, "how about we give the people in jail free money." Are illegal immigr...read more
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by John Sarkis
Let me begin by saying: this is a topic that I'll never understand; illegal's should never be entitled to receiving benefits. If you're a-say 45 years old American citizen, a...read more
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Why should any one who is not a citizen of the United States of America receive any benefits what so ever? First of all these people are breaking the law by coming into this Co...read more
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Illegal immigrants do not deserve benefits. These include food stamps, welfare, financial assistance (travel money, childcare, vouchers for clothing needed for a job) and medica...read more
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by Pat Sumpter
The key word in this debate is "illegal". While I care deeply for people no matter their origins, and I sympathize with the plight of many, it still comes down to the matter of ...read more
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by Rob O'Hannon
I consider myself a liberal, and base my vote on the needs of people first, but the way this question is worded, particular the world "entitled", must lead me to write for the "...read more
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by Anne Grace
Illegal immigrants are absolutely not entitled to receive the benefits extended to legal citizens of the United States, nor should they be. Unless they are willing to be subject...read more
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Illegal immigrants should not be entitled to anything more than a free meal on their way out of America. That may sound harsh but its a reality. These people have no respect for...read more
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America is a sovereign nation like any other. And, like any other sovereign nation, we have our own citizens. Our government exists to serve the citizens, and has an obligation ...read more
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Yes Illegal immigrants should be entitled to receive the benefit of our judicial system. The crime having been committed, why should we not charge them, try them, and play host...read more
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Okay, let's look at the major word in this title: ILLEGAL. By definition, that means against the law. When natives of the US break the law they automatically lose certain benefi...read more
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by Poppa Dave
Illegal immigrants should not be given any benefits paid for by American Citizens without their direct consent. Direct consent does not mean the glad handing politicians making...read more
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Why give benefits to criminals? The operative word here is "illegal" immigrants. What are we showing other immigrants who came in to this country legally, applied for and paid...read more
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The United States is required to provide education to children who are illegal aliens and emergency medical care. Those are the only benefits that an illegal alien should recei...read more
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