Just what part of “illegal” is so hard to understand when it’s used in front of the word “immigrant”? The Denver Post had an editorial today making an argument for a bill that would allow the children of illegal immigrants to be charged in-state tuition at Colorado colleges and universities. They also would be eligible for tuition assistance. Just like they can already sponge off American taxpayers’ money by living in Kansas, Utah, Nebraska, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Yes. I used the word “sponge”.
This is just so very, very wrong.
These people are here illegally. That means they are, by default, breaking the law. I really don’t care how “hard” they may be seen to be working, the truth is that too many of them are clogging our prisons and our medical facilities, wasting people’s time by having to “press 1 for English” and it is American citizens who are footing the bill, not the few illegals who purportedly pay “some sort” of taxes.
By default and by definition, no matter how you try to disguise it, they don’t belong here.
No, it isn’t “fair” that the children of illegal immigrants must suffer because their parents are criminals. But it isn’t fair to the children of an American citizen if their parents end up in jail, either; yet you don’t hear a whole lot of sympathy being spouted for them, do you? Of course not. Americans suck it up, as they say. We have rules by which we are expected to live, and consequences to be suffered when we fail to live by those rules.
Why should it be any different for those who are not citizens and are not even here legally? Why should it be different for criminals?
Personally, I think any elected representative who really believes that rewarding those who break the law ought to be sent packing alongside their hoped-to-be-new Democratic constituents. But the problem is, very few other countries will accept criminals the way that America is being forced to.