@Chosen Daughter To be fair, I think @Jazzhead was talking specifically about LEGAL immigrants. Now, there's the idea that they shouldn't be eligible for welfare benefits for 10 years, but I thought it made sense their kids could go to school here.
And to be fair to myself and others here who have stated their belief that immigration is not needed anytime soon in this country. We have able bodied people on welfare. I have seen the hostile takeover of Construction of all kinds even lucrative government infrastructure jobs going to illegal aliens. Construction, landscaping, cleaning, manufacturing. They came for labor jobs and now they are coming for banking and even Lawyers. I saw a story about an illegal immigrant who is a licensed lawyer in California.
If you look at the statistics on American citizens who are undereducated you would have to agree they still have to work would you not? Or are you OK with increasing number of American citizens sitting at home waiting for the welfare check? All of those undereducated people without college degrees have to make a living. Many of these people have families too but have a hard time getting any of the stuff that is offered to illegal aliens. And every job that they qualify for is flooded with illegal aliens or immigrants here on H1/2 Visa's (which BTW the government has used incorrectly to benefit corporations looking for cheap labor). And these immigrants can accept cheap labor because we are carrying their food, health, phone etc, etc.
And with helplessness comes violence and more drugs. The African American community has been hit hard by illegal immigration. Don't you ever see these protests in predominantly African American cities and wonder what has happened to them? I have a theory. Hopelessness. A community of people with no ties to the community. Why would they care about the community? They don't work in the community and there isn't any jobs for them so they might as well sell drugs, do drugs...
Liberal politics have abandoned them and enslaved them. They have told them they don't have to work and they have replaced them with immigrants. Now they live there but don't really live. And very sadly the GOP which used to be about welfare reform has settled into the immigrant trade abandoning undereducated citizens to whatever means they can to survive the rat race. Unfortunately the drug market is increasingly drawing those people in.
Oh and since I am rambling now who do you think is paying for this tax fraud?
https://cis.org/Tax-Credits-And-IllegalsWe are.
Look at this! How is this legal?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mexican-lawyer-appointed-to-california-government-job-may-be-first-illegal-immigrant-to-hold-state-postAnd these statistics. How are American citizens supposed to live?
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/11/03/occupations-of-unauthorized-immigrant-workers/And so finally,...........I promise I am done now... With all the illegal immigrants in the country we don't need anymore immigrants legal or illegal.