Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
As I stated earlier, every dollar spent to benefit an illegal alien is a dollar unavailable to help a citizen.
The above statement is to me re-phrased:

As I stated earlier, every dollar spent to benefit a [human being] is a dollar unavailable to help [another human being].

I know it's a pity there aren't enough dollars to go around to help everyone who needs it, but why should we make distinctions that say one deserves it more than the other?

Based on who pays taxes? Because I've worked my share of off-the-books jobs in my lifetime, so count me out, then.

Based on where I was born? I didn't choose where I was born; neither did you. Neither did anyone; so it's not justification to say who deserves more than who.

My own great-grandparents were immigrants, who came here legally and worked their butts off to make a better life for their children.
How lucky and blessed your great-grandparents were, that their visas came in time. Does that make you better than their neighbors, whos visas did not come?

Did you family have a plan B in case the visas did not come?


Yes, they are poor. Yes, they are sick. Yes, their country is broken.
Not sure where you live, but on the front door of my country we hung up a sign that says:

"Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (by Emma Lazarus, part of the poem engraved inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty).

Her poem does not add at the end "If you have the right documents."

Maybe the solution is to annex Mexico and integrate it into the US. Then the problem is solved.
How is that? Only something like 60% of illegal immigrants are from Mexico, so annexing Mexico doesn't solve the problem. Unless of course, you're only trying to keep out Mexican illegal immigrants, and illegal immigrants from Cuba or Europe or Asia are alright.