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Originally posted by WCUAXID
I also don't think that I should have to keep paying for illegal immagrants to get healthcare or unwed moms to stay on welfare and keep making babies but come every pay the government keeps taking money out for theses types of programs and more while people who do truly need some form of assistance are routinely denied, just look at some of our Vets.
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Well, I never post in heated topics on GC, but I'm feeling a little feisty today, so here I go...
As a Californian (a state with a VERY high population of illegal immigrants)and as a liberal Catholic , illegal immigrants are a, for lack of a better term, a necessary evil. Come visit me in California and I'll take to you Ventura county so you can observe the migrant illegal agriculture workers. These people work twelve hour days, bent over all those lovely strawberries you will eat this season, for minimum wage (if lucky) in the blistering sun. Whereas, in Central America, they can work the same, if not longer hours, for a whopping nine dollars a DAY (yes, this is factual information from my UCLA History of U.S. Immigration class). As "Christians", tell me why you don't believe these people should be allowed to obtain the best life for themselves they can, or as a "Christian" , why you shouldn't help those less fortunate as Christ did and calls all Christians to do. Conservatives (and some of my best friends, by the way) always fall back on the "fact" illegal immigrants are a bane on our economy and our societal sytems, but as Rudey illustrated, they are far from it.
So, we've come to the conclusion, people, who came here just like your ancestors, shouldn't be given the same consideration and "pursuit of happiness"... wait I thought this was what the U.S.A stood from its inception. And from my experience working with several various social service programs and within the education system, these people are not here for the downfall and economic bankruptcy of the United States, but are here to give themselves and their children one ounce of the life you are so blessed to enjoy by doing work no "American" will do. Seriously, how many native-born Americans would work for the same wage in horrible conditions, in our society that is quickly moving away from its "blue-collar" dominated economic system?