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Should illegal immigrants be entitled to receive benefits?

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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 for the right to be here. There are immigrants here who received work papers and visas and who pay taxes. It hardly seems fair that now, just because a certain population of illegal immigrants keep "sneaking" in to this country illegally, we have to pay for their education and welfare and even go as far as giving them drivers licenses. Do you reward criminals for breaking the law? This is what is happening and it's up to the people of North America to stop this insanity. I don't know what solutions could be set in place right now because of the vast numbers of illegals in both the United States and Canada, but something has to be done and rewarding them for breaking the Law is not one of them. It is a very complicated issue and a top issue for Democrats and Republicans both to try and come up with answers before this country goes totally down the drain.

I saw a news flash the other day showing an on-the-street interview with some Mexican illegal alien women who had entered Windsor, Ontario via refugee status. They were asked, by a reporter, why they had come there. The women both said the "welfare benefits" were better than in the States and that the United States was coming down on illegals there. Oh for God's sake, when are North Americans going to wake up. These people are just using this country and Canada to gain personal benefits and as long as we keep giving, they'll keep taking and coming.

There are many "legal" poor immigrants living in the United States that could probably use some "benefits" and some financial help but if we give all our resources to illegals, what will be left for anyone else? The only benefits I would give illegal aliens would be a free trip back to Mexico or where ever else they came from illegally and a permanent stamp on their hand to show they had been deported so they can be recognized as an illegal alien if they should be so bold as to sneak back in again. Of course, that would never be allowed to happen as it would be "politically incorrect." Political incorrectness in this country is going be be the end of us all and if we don't wake up pretty soon and start protesting and demanding what is right for us, we are doomed as a nation and the cataclysmic effects of this will last through all generations and change the way things are here forever.

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