If the illegal immigrants are granted citizenship? Where does this leave the American citzens who have been?
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-------"If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes:----------Noah Webster\n\n-------"Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.-----------------------Noah Webster\n\n-------"If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."-------------Noah Webster\n\nI Guess The Guy KNEW What He Was Talkin About, Because It Has Become APPARENT That We Have CORRUPT Men In Office, Our PUBLIC REVENUES Are Being Squandered, And The RIGHTS Of Our CITIZENS Are Being VIOLATED  \n\n               Freedom and justice are fading memories, the U.S. Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper," and the election process has been undermined. The jobs have been shipped overseas, the economy is hopeless, the environment is being raped, the Army is "broken," the infrastructure is crumbling, our borders are being dissolved, and every dollar or gold nugget that was subject to being looted, is already gone. With the entire nation and its population deep in debt, crashing the economy is a simple matter of raising interest rates, which will allow the bankers to once again scoop up all mortgaged property, and force its inhabitants out into the street. Instead of calling it illegal immigration, we should be calling it a foreign invasion, because the consequences of this invasion are as terminal to our freedoms and to our way of life as any act of terrorism ever perpetrated against us! The United States is being invaded - FOREIGN INVADERS.  \n\n             The American people need to understand that the United States is under attack! \nNo, not by Iraq or Iran, but by Mexico! Yes, Martha, you had better believe it. \nThe Mexican government is deliberately and systematically working to destabilize and undermine the very fabric and framework of American society. \n             And President George W. Bush and Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy (among others) are aiding and abetting this effort. "  \n\n\n               Gramsci, a young communist who died in one of Mussolini's prisons in 1937 at the age of 46, conjured up the notion of a 'quiet' revolution that could be diffused throughout a culture -- over a period of time -- to destroy it from within.  He was the first to suggest that the application of psychology to break the traditions, beliefs, morals, and will of a people could be accomplished quietly and without the possibility of resistance. \n    \n\n---------" Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice"---------------------: John Adams\n\n                  My goodness we are being invaded by dishwashers, cooks, fruit pickers,hotel workers. \n\nAnd MS-13. And try to sell the image of the sweet, hard working Mexican people someplace else because I know better\n\n----------"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."------- Edmund Burke   \n\n\n                  And what do you think you'll have when you destroy the American people and the American infrastructure?. \n                   Do you think you'll be free? Do you think you'll be masters of your destiny?  \n Think again because the people that you are supporting - the illegal invaders to America aren't educated enough and they aren't smart enough.  They will turn America into the same kind of country that Mexico is - a fascist state with a tiny minority
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Do you mean immigrants in the USA?  \nIf they are here LEGALLY, they can apply for CITIZENSHIP. If they are here ILLEGALLY they need to go back home (their country of origin) and apply for a visa BEFORE entering the country.
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Put it this way, a naturalized citizen can be strip down of the citizenship and deported, while a natural can not, now that of be president is relative because only one among 300 million get elected president, for everything else there is no difference, same laws, same rights, same duties applies..☺
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France ~ Enlist in the French Foriegn, under any alias name ~ and upon receiving a Honorable Discharge ~ you will be granted French citizenship.  \n\nEnlisting in the United States military is not an automatic path to American citizenship ~ at the beginning of the current war ~ it was discussed ~ but thus far ~ citizenship has only been granted post-humanously to certain members of the American military.  Although service in the American military ~ could and would certainly grease the immigaration skids toward full citizenship
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Citizen=national.  Those who are  born or naturalized in the US.  Others are aliens, legal or illegal.
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I think they will be granted citizenship and the rights that come with it because that is already the precedent with previous amnesties of illegals.
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Sure they can.  All they have to do is give up their American citizenship, which is usually the end of it.
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To Clipz4Life: Actually yes illegals have knocked down buildings.  It was on a little known day known as 09/11/01.  Most of the hijackers were not in the country legally.  \n\nTo answer the question I believe that what we have now is an invasion.  They take services that they aren't paying into thus depriving legal citizens of those services.  They also desecrate our flag and what it stands for and they replace it with the flag of their dysfunctional country.  Flying a foreign flag (and yes Mexico is a foreign country) above the American flag signals an invasion.  Walking over it, spitting on it, and burning it sends a clear signal that those who are here illegally have absolutely no respect for Americans or this great country.  My question is: if your country is superior to America then why are you coming here illegally?  Why not stay where you are?  Notice there aren't hordes of Americans sneaking into Mexico illegally.  Speaks volumes doesn't it?
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What immigrants don't realize or think about is when they come here illegally they are robbing themselves of their own rights. If they are illegal, their work is limited because if they are caught, they can be deported. They have a lot of limits because they don't want to get caught and deported, that is something they are bringing onto to themselves. They don't have the right to vote because they are not citizens. \n\nFOr those that came here the legal way, then they should have all the rights that American citizens have ONCE they are here long enough to be considered a citizen, they deserve it because they went through all of the trouble to do things the correct way. \n\nNo matter what we do, we will still have illegal immigration. It can be limited however. I think we should do what other countries do to us. I was in South America last January. I had to carry copies of my passport with me, because if the police or security stopped me or if someone in a museum or store or whatever requested to see it, and I did not have it, then I would've been put in jail. A fine of over $600.00 plus exit taxes would have to be paid before they released me and I would've been escorted out of the country and would've lost the priveledge of coming back. THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE HERE! We are WAY TOO LOOSE WITH LETTING PEOPLE IN. They come, they don't speak English and what happens they get welfare benefits. The come here illegally, the pop several children out and what do they do, they get welfare benefits. NO WAY!! You better darn well have more proof of a social security card and ID to show that you are a citizen, you dang well be able cough up a passport and a visa!!
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Wherever the word CITIZEN appears.\n\nThere is a difference between a CITIZEN and an ILLEGAL ALIEN..\n\nMany MUSH-HEADS try to say it makes no difference, but even the LAW says so.
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No.  Send them back to where ever they are from and make them go about it the right way.\n\nI do have a possible solution to the problem though. All of those people who are pro Illegal aliens can give up their own citizenship to an illegal and then take their place in the illegals country.  Any takers?
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Absolutely not, it is wrong that ANY illegal immigrants are getting citizenship, but mostly people from Latin American Countries.  Instead of taking the money they earned and putting it back into our economy, they are sending a large portion of it back home.  50% of Mexico's economies and an even larger percent of the economies of countries like Guatemala, Bolivia and Honduras are being created with American money.  At least we know why our economy is crumbling, while everyone else's is growing.
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Well....all those people that live here illegally have had a taste of freedom, perhaps they should take it back to Mexico or wherever they come from and spread it around. We as a nation are not responsible for cleaning up the world. Sometime people need to stand up for themselves instead of running to another country and enabling their country of origin to continue with their corruption with the funds they send back.
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It is now the law that if you're born in the USA, you are a citizen.  \n\nIf the law was changed to say that if your parents were here illegally you cannot be (or are no longer) a citizen, we'd have to deport a lot more folks than Latinos.
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First and foremost.... these people DO NOT WANT TO BECOME CITIZENS.  Therefore, they will not join up to pay taxes, etc.  They will just continue to send $$$ home to Mexico. Bush and company assume they want to be citizens, but I have not heard any of the illegals say that.  Just that they are "taking over".  Send them all  back.  No special treatment or deals.
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----Actually to all those that call you a jerk, they clearly don't know what they are talking about...more ignorant folks than you can shake a stick at.  When one marries an alien, they don't become a citizen automatically and it certainly ain't free.  It is also fraud to marry someone just so they can get a green card.\n\nI'm not really sure what the question is here, but I will try to comment on what you wrote.\n\nFirst of all, not many Americans (including those that work in the immigration system for a living) understand the phenomenon of immigration in the United States very well.  So don't feel badly.\n\nThere is a myth perpetuated in American schools that the United States is special somehow because it is a "country of immigrants."  This is a real fallacy.  Most countries are countries of immigrants...everyone had to come from somewhere.  I'll bet most of the population in the United States has already been there for many generations.  However, this creates the expectation among many Americans that immigration of any kind is perfectly acceptable and even wonderful somehow.\n\nThere are many ways of looking at the phenomenon: political, sociological, administrative, etc.  A lot of Americans don't give it a lot of thought at all, assuming that things will just take care of themselves like they always have.  Some Americans see immigration as a constant source of cheap labor, easily exploitable, whether legal of illegal.  Politicians, understanding that everyone in their precinct eventually will probably be a voter, are not really in a hurry to be anti-immigrant, and will even interfere with Executive Branch processes on the behalf of illegal aliens residing in their districts in hope of getting their votes in the future.  Other folks don't like the idea of people breaking the law to get benefits for which they don't contribute.  And still others have a mix of sentiments.\n\nHere is the scoop.  There are two general types of immigrants: those who enter the United States legally with the permission of the Government; and those who don't.  The latter category include those who defraud or violate status once they are in, in addition to those who walk across the border or are otherwise trafficked across. In my experience, legal immigrants resent illegals because they didn't bother to go to the trouble that they went to.\n\nPeople want to improve their lives.  It is a basic fact that distinguishes man from animals.  You can hardly blame a guy for wanting to do that.  However, crossing the border without the permission of that country is a violation of the sovereignty of that nation.  That is hard to explain to guy living on beans and tortillas, and it is a rather thin distinction when his family is starving.  One illegal hardly hurts anyone, right?  \n\nHowever, a flood of aliens puts a strain on a country's financial resources.  Also, turning a blind eye to illegal entry also helps criminals make a profit from facilitation.  People in the destination country are not always nice and will often exploit an illegal worker.   Therefore, a country puts up controls to try and responsibly manage immigration. \n\nThis allows people from all countries, including many refugees, to seek a better life in the United States in a manner which protects them from exploitation and gives them the means to start productive lives, paying back into the tax base which supports schools, public services, etc.  there are many ways this happens through the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security (formerly INS).  Through the use of immigrant visas, the Department of State seeks to reunify families which have already immigrated to the US, allow new immigrants to immigrate, and permit talented professionals to enter to pursue their professions.  The Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also issue refugee documents allowing thousands of
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I would assume that it is poss-able. However that may put the citizenship of the American at danger. Taking up the colours (Brit spelling, I think :) of a foreign power can be a cause of losing citizenship. Since the Lim.. er British are our friends then I think the poss ability of this happening is small. Come to think of it there are some American Jews who have served in  Israel's SDF and still retain citizenship. I would consult a lawyer just in case.