Should illegal imigrants be allowed the rights granted in the constitution?

Oh, it is 42 United States Code section 1983. In legal lingo, a code is simply a simplified and specified version of a law.

MrNiceGuy, everyone in the USA pays taxes in one form or another! There is so much taxation, that it is almost impossible to escape payng taxes in the US, employed or unemployed! For example: If one is employed (from day labor to corporate America), one pays taxes, and then pay more taxes from taxed money through rent or mortgage, light bill, phone bill, gas, water bill, sales tax, gasoline! Therefore, if taxes are received from them, then they - illegals and all - should be entitled to benefits!

No one said they were paying ALL taxes, MrNiceGuy! I am simply telling you that these "illegals" also pay taxes like anyone else in the USA. Therefore, it will be unfair to receive their taxes and refuse them benefits! Got it? And as per "they aren't citizens", if you had taken the time to research the law I mentioned in my response, then you, too, would have seen why your whining about illegals have no rights failed! If you want change, then you, the law-abiding MrNiceGuy and cronies, will have to follow proper legal procedures as required by the Constitution of the United States, not short-cuts - such as Patriot Act II seeks to impose! Got it?

Wrong because they aren't paying all the taxes regular citizens are. Not to mention they aren't citizens period..

No I don't think illegal immigrants should have constitutional rights as we do. They should be rounded up and sent back to Mexico. With one exception. If they have been here numerous years, have children and have been law abidding citizens then I think they should be given citizenship once they learn to speak and go through the same system that others have had to go through to become citizens. Now to comment on the previous post. They might be a drain on our economy but it's our own fault. The illegal immigrants are taking jobs that most Americans refuse to work. Crap jobs that might mean we have to work for minimum wage. Everytime I go anywhere I see signs saying 'HELP WANTED' but they can't fill the spot. Why? Because most Americans refuse to work low wage jobs. We're so spoiled that we can't dirty our hands with such menial labor. We are causing the drain ourselves. If we'd get off out butts and take the jobs and take the jobs that are available then the illegal immigrants would have nothing to come to. So we can point fingers but the first place we need to point the finger is at ourselves. Nuff said.

well acctually, most Americans wont work for minimum wage because it is near impossible to live on that if you are married and especially if you have kids so what i mean is that they are putting a damper on a kind of second industrial revolution, if u dont know what the Industrial Revolution is, it is a period in history when wages were increased and working conditions were improved due to numerous strikes and retaliations, but if we hire illegals who will do the work for far under minimum wage without protest it is putting no pressure on corporations to raise workers wages and improve the general welffare of our country, now congress is trying to initialize a plan to raise minimum wage to 7/hour which is a good step in improving the welfare in the country but companies need to putforth more benefits such as lower costs for medicare, thats how they are putting a drain on an economy

i agree with bigred it is hard to support a family on minimum wage the only reason why immigrants do it is because the don't get taxed like we do till yrs later whats right about that?.....and ive been to numerous temp. agency's and they pay pretty low but most of the time if your not an immigrant your not getting the job