Leo9 hit the nail on the head:
some people don't deserve the basic rights I consider an absolute right for me and mine, because they're the wrong sort of people - you're on the other.
I am of the opinion that there is no criteria that makes another group of people "less good", including criminal status. Evan a criminal is a human being, which is why we don't just chop off their heads like was done in the old days.

So call them criminals if that makes you feel better; they are still not an "other", it is still wrong to ignore their miserable circumstances and try to justify why you deserve better than they do.

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Not in the US. While they may not be able to get a driver's license, their children can be sent to schools, and they are eligible for both free breakfasts and lunches.
We're feeding hungry children! Oh, the horror! Oh, right, they're someone else's children. Well let them starve, then, carry on.

They get medical aid simply by showing up in a clinic or emergency room.
Last time I checked, that was what an emergency room or clinic was for. You'd get help if you showed up in an emergency room...oh, wait, you get to stand on the "I'm more human than you are." line.

Don't force me to place notices in every language because they aren't interested in learning mine.
1) Go to Europe. Almost every sign there is multi-lingual. Society has not fallen apart.

2) The United States does not have an official language. And we shouldn't. Many countries have several prominant languages (like Canada is both English and French and a few others, I believe). They run just fine.

3) My guess is you haven't bothered to personally get to know any of "these people." I get to know a lot of all sorts of people in my job, and when the same person comes back over a span of time and they're here for longer and longer, guess what? They learn English! Most of them are working their butts off to learn our language- it's just that so many of them are new that to the outside observer who doesn't bother to get to know the individual people, and sees them only as a mass group, it would appear that they aren't learning English.

Talk to some of them sometime, if you dare. Become friends with them, learn who they are. See if the ones who have been here for five months can speak English (could you?), who have been here for a year, who have been here for five years.

Maybe you'll even learn some of their language. Unless, of course, you think one language is better than another.

Believe me, nothing would please me more than for the entire world to be united under one flag, one government, one economy, so we could all travel anywhere we wished without worrying about borders. All people would be equal, there would be no hoarding of resources, and peace would reign over the Earth. I think it would be wonderful if we could all live together without laws to restrict our freedoms. But right here, right now, the world doesn't work that way.
Which is why some of us are trying so hard to change that. Saying "things aren't perfect so bend to the current way of things." doesn't cut it. If things are wrong, fix them, change them. Maybe perfect world peace is an unreality, however; constantly striving towards it would be a necessary part of our humanity. To simply give up and say "Well, it's good enough." doesn't fly.