Is it fair to U.S. citizens that we educate hundreds of thousands of children born to illegal immigrants?
550875
Yes, because the children are American citizens.
620554
I WANT TO SEE HOW THESE PEOPLE GET THEIR CITIZEN SHIP... if it ever goes to that. I see people going through the process now. they have to memorize 50 questions about america.\n\nlets see the non-english speaking class beat that test.
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.
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.
519153
I don't agree with you, but Americans will suffer if these illegals are given amnesty. There will be more encouragement, not less, for more illegal immigration meaning less jobs for American citizens. There will be more social security and identification theft. There will be even more infringement on American rights as we are forced even more to cater to their demands. Our children will suffer even more as the nonEnglish speaking children slow down the class curriculum. This will basically say once again that our laws mean nothing. More and more Americans will be jobless or working poor and forced into poverty. We will continue on our path to becoming a 3rd world country.
898147
YES! American citizens, native born, or legal immigrants need to say ENOUGH, and do whatever is necessary to protect the sovereignty of the country, allot of men have died for something this generation is throwing away.
640426
Absolutely NO!  \n\nI posted a question earlier asking anybody to give a benefit of illegal aliens being in the US. I did not receive one.\n\nThey HURT our economy in so many ways. Some examples? You got it!\n\nThey send a large percentage of their earnings back to their home country. (The money doesn't stay in the US)\n\nThey work for less money for unethical employers. The unethical employers can then sell their product for less which severely hurts the honest companies that hire legal workers.\n\nLoOK at all of our high school students protesting to allow illegals. The illegals are already brainwashing our children to think it's ok to disobey federal laws!  What else do you think they're teaching our kids?\n\nIf an illegal breaks the law to enter our country so he can work for less than minimum wage, what would he do for $5,000 or more?  Terrorism? Smuggling? Drug dealing? Treason?\n\nNO.  Illegals aliens should not be welcomed!  They hurt our economy. They take jobs from our children, our homeless, our unemployed.  They add absolutely nothing to our society. They have nothing to teach our children, they don't add to our culture. They have nothing to add to our communities.
664042
Actually, I think you have the question wrong.  This came up in the context of illegal immigrants when people asked why people cared about them.  I for one don't care what people speak to their friends or at home, but I do care when students coming into school don't speak English. Bilingual education is very expensive and means that a lot of courses we had in school when I was a kid are no longer available.  Further, the entire class has to go slower when they have to wait for the teacher to teach students English before teaching the subject matter.\n\nIt is true that the issue would exist legitimately for immigrants who are here legally, but in areas where illegal immigrants concentrate, their presence makes the situation much worse.\n\nSchools in border states are a big issue.\n\nFor that reason I think people should learn English if they are given a path to citizenship.  They came in above the number we felt could be assimilated easily, and I think it is fair to ask them to put forth a special effort.  It is better for their kids's education too.  However, I freely admit that I am more concerned with the quality of my own kids's education.\n\nSome people had problems with Spanish being spoken in businesses, but I don't.  I think that is Capitalism at work, just as the resorts in Mexico all speak English.
186518
I oppose amnesty for illegals, no matter what!  I am in favor of those who enter through legal means.  I would like to know how many of the 500,000 protesters,  were legal US citizens?  I'm sure most were not.  I do not feel it is fair to those who came here through legal means, nor do I feel it is the responsibility of those of us who regularly pay taxes to pay for health care, education, and welfare of those who sneak into this country.  Not to mention the cost to the communities for law enforcement.  \nI think anyone who harbors an illegal should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting criminals.  If the Church harbors illegals, it should not only loose tax free status, but the priest or minister should also be brought to justice.  Same thing for employers-if you pander to illegals you should be arrested.\nAnd for those who claim illegals work jobs that Americans won't, I say if all employers paid a decent wage, there are plenty of Americans willing to work.  Secondly, if there is such a shortage of workers, let's put the people on welfare to work, and get them off the welfare lines.
791101
MY STANCE IS UP HOLD THE LAWS AND DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS!\n\nTHEY ARE FREE LOADERS!\n\n$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally.\nhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html\n\n$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. \nhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html\n\n$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.\nhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html\n\n30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.\nhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html\n\n$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.\nhttp://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html\n\n$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.\nhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html\n\nThe illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.   In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the United States. \nhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html\n\nDuring the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border.\nNEW: Homeland Security Report:\nhttp://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf
719635
NO it is not fair, I am think all anyone who obtains a fake SS# and ID is breaking the law (legal or not). I think it is fine for immigrants to apply for citizenship but they should do it right and it should be hard. just because they have been here for 5 or 10 or even 20 years (illegally) I don't care...no one should be treated special....if you give one dog a bone they will all want one. I am so sick and tired of this immigration crap. I am totally against it, I think they should just deport them all and let them come here legally and have clean record and speak English..\n\nmight I add for the people who think I am racist, I am not. My husband is from Mexico and he is not legal, and I am still not going for this, and he thinks since he does not have his papers I should support him .... NO WAY !!! I married him 5 years ago and we have a 8 year old daughter and he does speak perfect English, but he should still have to get his citizenship the right way.\n\nohh sorry forgot...BUSH IS A IDIOT\n\nok I take that back....I kinda agree with guy below\n\nif there is a immigrant that has a clean record and did not obtain a SS# and just worked for cash, and has been not causing any problems, then yes help him out.\n\nbut what really upsets me is these immigrants that obtain the fake SS# and ID and get credit cards and buy houses, do they understand this was all illegal...that is not acceptable to me and should not to anyone else either....
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Oh, you are so preaching to the choir here.  The better life for their children is at the expense of upward mobility through education for our own children. \n\nLook at the correlation between ESL demographics and test scores in the LA Unified School District.  You can find these at Greatschools.net.  The schools are overcrowded to the point where most have 'three tracks' so the school will be used all year long, and children do not match each other's vacation school schedules, or the times when commercial camp options are available.  It costs $18,000 to educate a child for one year in California, and more if that is ESL instruction.  However, for those of us who have children in the overcrowded, underfunded and highly ESL impacted LAUSD, the money is the least of the costs.  This is our children's future we are talking about.\n\nThose not in border states may think this will never impact their states to this extent.  However, those people should look at the numbers to be allowed, including family, in the guest worker program under the Senate Bill.  Illegal immigrants have already begun moving into the interior to find better education than the border states have, any more.  Implementing the Senate Bill would impair education throughout  the country.
1186109
Why the heck should we reward people who are draining medical resources, social security, schools, community services, etc by giving them a free college education over a legal resident? We who are legal (I'm Native American) pay our taxes and watch people who don't pay anything, get the benifits we can't, because we are legal. \n\n   I have seen illegals given food stamps, subsidized housing, money and free medical care, when American citizens were denied. Yes, I have seen this!\n\n If the illegals want an education, let THEM pay for it not people who would like that education but can't afford it, because they can't get the freebies that illegals get. Give those scholarships to people who deserve them ,because they obey the rules!\n\nIf education is free in Mexico, let them get it there.
1129400
hadenough, I agree totally.  There are plenty of countries that are more poverty stricken than Mexico and the other Latino countries.  The students from those countries come here LEGALLY, get great educations and then, many of them return to help their people. Being poor is no excuse to break laws of another country.They aren't coming here because of being poor, or to feed their starving families. They are coming here to infiltrate our communities, slink into neighborhoods. Have babies like rabbits to increase their population and then when America is sticking its head further into the sand, they will have become the majority and the USA will be controlled by that majority vote and everyone will be pushing a button for "English" or the message will automatically be in Spanish.
619502
Why are the law-abiding American citizens being blamed for "tearing up families"?  We are not the ones leaving children behind, the illegal immigrants are.  They do have a choice - go through the legal process to come here legally like so many generations before them did, or break the law.  They choose to break the law then think they should get special treatment and rewarded for it.
204239
Because many of them are illegal aliens. They have alot to loose by this law passing. Many of these kids were brought over here by their parents on work visa's and have grown up knowing nothing but this country. They will not be able to continue their education or go to college if this law passes nor be able to apply for a SSN or drivers licence. There are very many touching stories, and it is heart breaking that these kids are going to be affected in such a bad way because of choices their parents made. So many freedoms that many of us forget and take for granted. It's a tough call, because in so many ways by not tightening down on illegal immigration and making it more of a crime we will never get a hold on it, yet there are many who are here and they are contributing in a good way to our country. It's so hard to know where to draw the line. But if this law passes they have alot to loose, I can't really blame them. They have a right to protest just like any of the rest of us, that's what makes this country great.
861724
This is a non bias answer. No you should not be charged for this , but our government actually give these people more rights than they give Americans so what does that say about our government????? Basically it is hurray for the illegals that actually get over here and get in our system and they, the government will actually help them get thier citizenship. I say run over them all......!