But they aren't. Jobs are available though.
So you just know in your little heart of hearts, that even though they are eligible for many benefits and that no one is required to check their eligibity for the ones that they are not eligible for, the illegals just
choose not to take them?
OMG!
How do you see that conversation going, exactly?
*wavy screen and harp music* Dissolve to small apartment in a border state.
Marta: Jose, my friend Carolina told me that there are many benefits available to us, even though we are here illegally. We are eligible for many, and our ninos are eligible for even more. For the ones that we are not eligible for, no one is required to check. Tomorrow, while you are picking fruit, I will go and apply for all of them!
Jose: No, Marta. It is bad enough that we came into this country illegally, instead of waiting our turn. Bad enough that I took a job that many American citizens want. You think that we are going to compound our wrongdoing by accepting benefits that they offer and then - aye dios mio - LYING to get more?
Oh, no, mi amor. I'm surprised at you.
Marta: But Carolina said . . .
Jose: Do Carolina and her esposo accept these . . . "benefits?"
Marta: No. *hangs head* Her esposo told her the same.
Jose: Of course he did. We are a proud people, who only come here for work. We've had two children in this country, and we had the partera come over to help you instead of going to the emergency room where they would have been forced to help you. Because that is the kind of people we are. Much to proud to do anything but take jobs from Americans.
That's really what you think happens?