Wry Catcher
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They vote Democrat because the Democrats give them money, drivers licenses, and welfare benefits and that is why some protect illegal immigrants.
Grow up. A driver's license is not a passport or de facto evidence of citizenship. It is an ID, one which Identifies the holder as a non citizen. It also means the holder of the license has some driver training and understands the rules of the road.
As for welfare,
"The extent to which residents of the United States who are not U.S. citizens should be eligible for federally funded public aid has been a contentious issue since the 1990s. This issue meets at the intersection of two major policy areas: immigration policy and welfare policy. The eligibility of noncitizens for public assistance programs is based on a complex set of rules that are determined largely by the type of noncitizen in question and the nature of services being offered. Over the past 18 years, Congress has enacted significant changes in U.S. immigration policy and welfare policy. Congress has exercised oversight of revisions made by the 1996 welfare reform law (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, P.L. 104-193)—including the rules governing noncitizen eligibility for public assistance that it established—and legislation covering programs with major restrictions on noncitizens’ eligibility (e.g., food stamps/SNAP, Medicaid)."
Link: http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33809.pdf
You have a problem with this, send Boehner a letter and tell him. He and McConnell refuse to put comprehensive Immigration Reform in a bill solely for political reasons. Their base wants 'em all deported, as you likely do. The fact is to do so is fiscally irresponsible as each person is required do process, including representation by an attorney.
There is also a factor of concern to all but the most callous conservatives, the so called anchor babies, a topic which might require a repeal of a part of the 14th Amendment (read section one), and those children brought into the United States as minors who have no experience living anywhere else and in many cases speak and understand English only.
You're the one who needs to grow up! We have immigration laws and quotas in place for good reasons. Illegal immigration negates that sane policy. Why would we conservatives contact our elected officials and ask them to pass an amnesty which is exactly what CIR is rather than enforcing our immigration laws and removing the incentives for illegal aliens to remain here?
Illegal aliens gets all kinds of welfare thru their U.S. born kids. Birthright citizenship should be denied to them which is another incentive why they come here.
As for the ids they drag over our border illegally their parents shouldn't be rewarded for that by allowing them to remain here. They know the culture and language of their homeland otherwise how do you think they communicate with their parents?
This isn't being calloused nor is it a conservative vs liberal issue. This is a American law issue.
Read the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and the link I provided. Then consider the cost of due process in doing what you advocate. We are a nation of laws, and it is callous to toss someone, who was born elsewhere and brought to the US as an infant, back across the border. The law requires due process and it is very expensive.
Local and state agencies do not have the standing to enforce Federal Laws. Immigration is a Federal Responsibility and speaking from experience, when we arrested a person who entered the country illegally and we notified INS (now ICE) we rarely got a return call. Thus, many non citizens would be arraigned, provided the Public Defender, tried by the District Attorney and if convicted interviewed by the Probation Officer, sentenced to probation, jailed or placed in prison all on the states dime.
"illegal aliens" get employment from businesses, big and small, and industry, they do not get TANF under normal circumstances. Get the facts, the issue is not as simple as you hope it to be.