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Old May 11, 2005 | 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by antarius
I should note.

I am fine with providing free emergency medical care to illegal aliens, if they need it. Just because they are illegal and have no source of income doesn't mean I want them to sit there and bleed to death.

However, I do want them to get a free plane ticket back to Mexico or wherever they came from, shortly after their hospital visit.

This rewarding illegal ANYTHING (and that seems to be the new trend) crap has got to stop. You're here illegally, if you're about to die, I'll fix you because we're a good hearted nation and a moral people. After that, you can come here legally or you can get the hell out of the country.

I'm all for making legal immigration easier, and making illegal immigration harder, but in the meantime we need to stop giving illegal immigrants, or any criminal, ANYTHING that they don't deserve.

This includes ID's, Social Security Numbers, Jobs, Housing, Welfare; Anything. If you are here illegally, you should not be able to get any of the above, and while I realize some of that is on our businesses that hire these illegals, it's also on our government to enforce laws we already have on the books that is supposed to protect us from exactly this kind of crap.

I've said it for a long time, and I'll say it again. The only thing you should be guarentee'd as an illegal alien in America is a swift kick in the ass back to your home country, paid for by the U.S. tax payer. That's a cost I'm willing to absorb.

:werd: I agree strongly with that. I mean, we should have mitigations in place to prevent these people from dying on the street, but if you want to be here, get here legally. Hell, my girlfriend did it, and so can anyone else (who isn't an obvious terrorist :reechy: ). BUT, shipping them back wont solve anything, so we've got to find a reliable way to stem the tide. I'm really torn on some issues like driver's licenses, because I can see both sides of the arguement, and neither side has the best solution...
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