by Buddy Miller

Created on: April 18, 2008

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 immigrants. Mexico and Central America are the source of most of those crossing the U.S. Southern borders without papers. It should be noted the Mexican government encourages it's citizens to go north and even publishes brochures to show how to best be successful in crossing our borders. Once here the illegal or in some cases the entire illegal's family are often beset by a multitude of problems.

The U.S. is not the land of milk and honey, but we do have what someone from another country would see as a great resource: our Social Safety Net. With everything from sympathetic churches to well-meaning citizen's groups, the illegal immigrant now has a sophisticated network of supporters that aid their every step. One of the most damaging things that these "good" citizens do is to work their magic on the social welfare systems to arrange everything from jobs, drivers licenses, fake identification, food stamps, maternity services and safe-houses.

For every job that is taken by an illegal immigrant it is an opportunity that is erased for an American citizen and a legal green-card carrying immigrant. Yes, there are legal immigrants that are looking for jobs too. What gives the illegal immigrants the rights to come to this country and work illegally, draw benefits from our Social Welfare System, intentionally have children that according to a very silly law entitles those children to citizenship automatically and not assimilate into our culture? The Emergency Rooms are overflowing in small-town America with Spanish-speaking families. Who pays for all this? Citizen Taxpayers are paying in the billions of dollars. This is not simply a question of those towns in proximity of the southern border, but towns in Michigan, Minnesota and New York. This is a national economic drive-by.

The Federal government agencies whose sole purpose is to protect our borders are not doing their job. As a result we have people in government who would rather engage in a cultural experiment rather than enforce our laws. Why are we paying these guys and funding their agencies? These agencies are suffering bureaucratic dysfunction in so many areas that it simply must be by design of our Congress and President. Nowhere is this apathy toward the problem more apparent than our current President Bush. Of course, none of his likely

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