SHOULD mexicans BE here free?Their  children  get  free  Education?
552877
No, they should go home and fix THEIR country. I think our country's headed for bankruptcy if we don't change our evil ways, and since they mainly live off us, they'll be right behind us in the soup line. Except, there won't be one.
994612
Yes, why should I have to learn their language or spend my tax dollars on signs for them to read when they lie and claim they have 8 kids so they can little to no taxes? On top of that they go to the free clinics and county hospitals which are tax based. They soak up services but pay nothing. We are better of without them. \n\nI don't mind them being here if they want to contribute. But we have enough freeloaders as it is, we don't need more crossing the border everyday.
257866
We really need to end public education if this is what we are teaching our children.  This falls under the conspiracy laws.  Breaking the law is wrong, even for Vicente Fox.\n\nLook Mexico as a country is a horrible neighbor.  Murderers and rapists go to Mexico because they know that they won't be extradited to stand trial, they are telling their people to break the law, smuggling drugs up here.\n\nThe people as a whole might be decent people but it's ridiculous to promote crime in another country.
1051906
I dont see why either. I mean these illegals pay taxes here too. They shop at our stores and pay bills where they live etc. The only difference is that they dont have a peace of paper that tells them they can be here and lazy and greedy people who want more and more money dont want them to take the jobs. Get to work people then maybe there wont be any jobs left for them to take.  to the answer above....When it comes to education.. Mexicans are okay to pick the food you eat but cant get an education?... riiight.
454860
I agree with everything you said.  The USA is the "home of the free" but everything isn't free. . .to anyone!  Rather than immigrating to the USA, why not change things in Mexico to be more like the USA if it is so desirable! We've always welcomed foreigners who adhere to our laws and become legal citizens.
26111
because we give benefits (free college tuition) to illegals and if you cross the border and have a kid, they are US citizens and get welfare.
544002
If you cross into Mexico illegally, the first time they deport you. The second time you go to jail. You cannot work in Mexico, you cannot go to school without their permission, and you cannot own land. i say the same should go for whoever enters illegally here from there. They get too much free education, and their free medical care is stripping hospitals of much needed funds to care for citizens. The same punishment for them here as there country gives to others.
1115457
Good question. In our school system they hire illegals without teaching credentials to accomodate spanish only speaking students, yet don't have time to teach my kids a second language. They actually tried for a few months, then stopped without explanation. I guess many of these hispanic students need a lot of attention, because I've pretty much been told it's my job to educate my youngest two kids myself, but I legally must send them to school anyway. Just tell a teacher you are considering home schooling if you want an angry indignant response, though. I guess they need my money guaranteed so they can educate others.
33017
Yes, but only to mexican citizens and they should complete the tramit to come here. It should be like EU.
985559
Well, I know some of them allow your kids to go to school there for free, or at least for a cheap price so long as you work there.  With tuition at the level it is now, that's a big reason to work there.
918261
Not to sound too cynical, but here goes. Have you never thought about the REAL reason for free education? Oh, you were under the impression it was to learn! Well, ok, it is for that to some extent, but it's also a vast free baby sitting service that keeps kids off the streets while their parents go out and work so that they can all keep consuming. It also institutionalizes them so that the vast majority become used to a non-democratic higher-archical system which will prepare them well to knuckle down to the drudgery of life in some office when they go off to work. Last but not least, it keeps unemployment down, by keeping teenagers off the job market.\n\nDo you really think parents will be leaving their kids at home to school themselves, trusting them not to eat chips and watch TV all day? I think not. It just wouldn't suit the system, the losses would outweigh the profits. Who knows, kids might even start thinking for themselves!
671817
I agree with you on one thing (but I'll proofread mine)... "If you give people to take the path of least resistance, generally they will take it."\n\nBeing unable to use the native language of the country of one's residence renders one poor, and it's true that options are few. Soooo many people here don't learn English EVER because there are Spanish newspapers, television, books, services of all kinds, Hispanic businesses where some of the staff don't speak a lick of English, etc etc. Almost everything Southern California has to offer has a Spanish version of it. People can come here and live out most of their lives and still never learn English. A shame, that's just laziness. I mean, night school is FREE! However, there's really no incentive if everything is in Spanish. That should change, I believe that citizenship should be contingent upon learning English. No need to be a master at it, but enough to communicate decently in public.\n\nHowever, to say that they don't belong here, I will COMPLETELY DISAGREE with you. This country is for immigrants, no matter where they're from and no matter what language they speak. Once they're here, they do have the obligation of learning American ways, including the language, this is true. But how dare anyone say that a certain group "doesn't belong" in this country!!! I'm Hispanic, and find this VERY OFFENSIVE.
415662
Mexican illegals are almost in mayority poor people without education. People like these are always being taken advantage of by U.S. business owners getting the low paying jobs no american would accept, and by the Mexican goverment allowing them to travel in most cases risking their lives to the U.S. so that they earn some dollars and send them to their families. And sooner or later, directly or inderectly, mexican polititians get the money. Now that few dollars multiplied by millions of mexican workers becomes Mexico politiians´third largest income. \nThe illigal immigration is wrong, but it has been this way everywhere ever since there are borders; all rich countries have a poor neighbor, and they allways permit a number of "illegal immigrants" to cover all the unwanted jobs but when the immigrants become too many, then it becomes a problem. There is a price to pay if one wants a cheep labour force and the U.S. is paying it. White americans have not learned from the past, when they bought africans to be their cheap labour force once, and now they have had to learn to live with african americans, and that was the price. This time they permitted the Mexicans for cheap labour and now they they will have to learn to live with a large number of latin american immigrants. Now, remember that americans were illigal immigrants in the northern part of Mexico but with the help of a corrupt Mexican president payed a small sum, managed to keep all that territory that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. How much has the U.S. really gained from those states that were once Mexico??? Did Mexico not lose??\nNow, that is the way it is, and borders are the way they are,  but at least some U.S. citizens should not be so cruel when they talk about "illegal immigrants". These are just poor desperate people trying to survive economicaly since they have no posibility in their "pueblitos". A "funny" thing is that the cruelest comments I´ve read seem to be from descendants of poor immigrants.
488461
There wouldn't be any children left behind if a) they were all legal and b) they all spoke english. As it is, we've got such a cross of languages spoken in schools (english, spanish, ebonics) and a plethora of illegal students clogging up the works. \n\nGreat point, glad to see you've put it out there. Personally, I'm fine with illegals, as long as they aren't using my police and fire, hospitals, schools, roads, or welfare funds.\n\nHey Isacha: These aren't innocent children... they're still ILLEGAL. Their parents brought them here knowing it was wrong and didn't care. That's some great parenting right there. Regardless of whether they are children or adults, all illegals are leaches of the system.
521138
I am fed up with illegal Mexicans up to my eyeballs.  They rip off the public school system without paying and you cannot tell me that when they work for cash  with no SSN at the end of the day they are going to ever bother filing a tax return.\n\nThe great irony here is that if these stupid idiots became legal and filed a legitimate tax return, if they had a fairly large family (3 kids or so) they could not only still pay no taxes but get a windfall payment for earned income and child tax credits for as much as $3,000 - $4,000 a year.  So the dumb suckers are screwing themselves, mainly, which is fine with me.  If a million illegals got $3,000 each at tax time that would be an additional $3 BILLION from the pockets of other taxpayers.\n\n\nWoop de doo.  Send em back anyway, we don't need em; they are parasites in the system.
851824
We don't want to pay for their education at the expense of services for our own people.  That is why we have immigration limits to begin with.
251643
I wish I had an answer for you.  This is a sore subject with me.  You forgot to mention that not only are out schools overcrowded but they are also doing bi-lingual teaching which, if memory serves me correctly, is illegal in CA, and it hinders the learning process for the children who are english speaking only.  How do I know this?  Because my child went to a school where literally most of the teachers only taught in spanish and neglected the english only speaking students and my childs grades and learning abilities went into the toilet along with friends.  I quickly yanked my kid out of that particular school, went into another school district where  the non-english speaking children were taught in a different class for a certain amount of time during the school day so the other children were not distracted by the different language and they did not suffer in their studies.   Oh and let's not forget that it seems like all the stores now have all their signs posted in spanish first and english second, if we are lucky.\n\nOur country seems to do so much for the illegal aliens yet don't do jack crap for the citizens who were either born and raised here or who came to the country legally.\n\nLike I said, it is a sore subject with me so I guess it's time to get off my soapbox.\n\nps:  I highly doubt that California would be crippled economically if there were not illegal immigrant workers (illegal aliens).  The illegals don't pay taxes so the State already suffers.