Do you support a program to help Illegal Immigrants in the US?

Hello sweet and welcome to myLot. Though I agree that these people need to be given a rout to be able to stay here in the United States. I don't agree with the way Obama did it. Newt Gingrich I think had a very good idea. "If you've been here 25 years and you got three kids and two grandkids, you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out". But he also thought it should be up to your neighbors. They know the illegal immigrant best. I don't like the president doing an executive order on this. He should have worked with Congress.

Sorry but I don't agree with granting amnesty or any type of allowance for illegal immigrants, although I DO believe we need to make the path to citizenship easier so more illegals will actually COME HERE LEGALLY instead of hiding or popping out kids in order to take advantage of staying here. One of the biggest problems with the economy right now is the fact that we have a lot of illegals who work under the table and should be deported, and therefore they don't pay taxes or even put money back into the economy here, they send it back to their home country. If they want to support their country, they need to do so while working THERE, not coming here and using our programs like welfare and medicaid and cash aid and food stamps, having kids who are then considered 'US citizens' even though they technically aren't, and then taking everything that should be there for actual citizens who were born and raised here from the beginning. I see actual American citizens suffering because there's no resources for them because illegals take it all - and there are many people who don't believe this occurs but it does. The majority of people who use medicaid and other low cost and state or federal subsidized health care for kids are NOT natural American citizens - they can't get it unless they are way below poverty level, they get passed over because all those other people have even LESS. I would be in favor of having to demonstrate that you are an actual citizen, born or naturalized - before you are able to qualify for any benefits which are available through programs funded by taxpayers - and you should also have to prove a history of working, showing that you also contributed to those programs in the past. People who are 'generational welfare recipients' would then stop being able to qualify - if they had no work history, they need to have some and THEN lose a job before having any access. IF - and this is a big IF - EVERY American citizen who needed help was able to be helped first and we still had surplus resources, then and ONLY then should we consider using our resources to fund illegals. That is the major issue here - we have too many homeless, jobless, needy, broke Americans who have no money, no healthcare, and here we are taking care of people who shouldn't even be here. I have NO problem if someone comes here and legally becomes a citizen and THEN works and pays taxes and has a family. If it is prohibitive in terms of financial cost and as far as all the qualifications for many immigrants, then some of the cost needs to be removed, but there are still certain things that must happen. If it were extremely easy for everyone and just ANYBODY could do it, then it cuts the value of citizenship which is a slap in the face to the rest of us.

I think it's a reasonable plan. After all, if they have lived here the majority of their lives, they don't really have a life to go back to in the country in which they were born. They've built lives - why not let them have those lives legally and be proper contributors to society?

I support that program 100% even though I am not from America lol . A child dont know any other country , if all fail I am sure they have other ways to get their resident or citizenship .

I support the program. These children only knows America as there home. They are educated here and I think that we should give them a pathway to become legal. I want them to pay Taxes and support America.