Illegal immigration, should they be able to claim for our benefits.

Wow! I have not heard that yet. Maybe its because Im not big on politics myself. But, in my opinion they should not be entitled to our benifits! Its really not fair. It seems sometimes they have more benifits then Americans. Now, if they are legal that is another story but the illegal ones its just not fair!

They should not be allowed to collect; but, they DO pay into it. Many of them use fake or stolen social security numbers so they can get jobs. They pay the same taxes - income and social security that you or I do. When the ID numbers are stolen - the person that the number belongs too can get into a LOT of trouble when the IRS finally catches up with the problem. One woman who was looking for work, was told she already worked for the company she applied for a job with. Further investigation shouwed that more than 8700 illegal immigrants were ALL using her social security number and the IRS was looking for her for "under reporting her income" and paying too little in taxes. But, even though these illegal immigrants are paying into the system, they should not be allowed to collect benefits that they did not LEGALLY earn.

I must have missed this, how would they get social security if they don't have a valid SSN?

most probably are because they have fake ID's and SS. Thats the problem. What I think they should do is make all illegal immigrants get the proper certification so they can pay taxes as well as seek whatever benefits they need at the time. I tried to get some extra support (food stamps) but couldn't get it because we 'made too much'. I'm a mother of 2 with a 4 person household A LOT of bills and only ONE income. I pay taxes, and I wasn't planning on bleeding the system. I just needed a help to not worry about if my children are going to eat a jar of Peanut Butter (they were at the time) for dinner, like a few months. But other families and probably quite a bit with illegals living with them are using social services. That is one big issue. illegals was health benefits and other things. Then they should study, learn English, take the test and get citizenship...Thats why I kinda like Clinton's plan to try and do that. Its a lot cheaper then gathering up all the illegals and kicking them out. Legalize the ones already here. Toss out the ones who have committed a crime here or in their original country (aka fugitives). And have better work policies for people trying to cross and work with the other countries to try and offer more/better jobs in their own country. Something like that. Can't remember the whole thing.

America was founded on illegal immigration so I can't say that I dislike illegal immigrants. If you ask me the best thing for everyone would be if the U.S. just annexed Mexico. Most of the illegals are Mexicans and they come here because their economy is so bad. The U.S. has given them so much money to help with their economy but it just hasn't worked. So why not annex Mexico, have them use the same currency as we do and make sure Mexico follows the same minimum wage laws that the U.S. does. That will help Mexico's economy, encourage Mexicans to stay there and work there and keep U.S. companies from outsourcing so many jobs to Mexico. It would be a win win for everyone. But it will never happen so I guess the next best thing would be some sort of compromise of all the different immigration proposals. I don't believe illegals should get automatic amnesty. I think that if they want to live in this country and recieve benefits like social security and health care then they have to be U.S. citizens which means they should have to learn English(and yes I know that the U.S. has no official language but I think English will be the official language soon as a result of this immigration mess) pay taxes, serve on juries, etc. etc. At the same time I don't believe that those who don't want to be citizens should be forced out. They just shouldn't be receiving the benefits that citizens get here. I honestly have no idea how they are now but obviously the system is broken if that's happening. They still should have to pay the normal income tax but they shouldn't pay social security or medicare and thus don't recieve those benefits.