Elkhart County, Ind.—

Angel Rodriguez stood on the front lawn, cradling his infant son, surrounded by porcelain figures, a playpen, a couch, shoes — the familiar ephemera accumulated in better times.........

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"Us illegals, we don’t have unemployment," said Rodriguez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico City. "If I had unemployment, I wouldn’t have had to give up the trailer.".......

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31511349/ns/us_news-the_elkhart_project/

interesting

very interesting

Duh! If he had entered the country legally he could get unemployment. Sorry, I've got no sympathy for illegals. Enter the country correctly, legally.

Plenty of people manage to come here legally and greatly contribute to our country. If their government is so screwed up, why don't they do something to fix it. We are not the answer to all Mexico's problems like the Mexican government seems to think.

So many of the LEGAL people in this country are wasting hard earn dollars because of this non-sense like this........GO HOME, STAY HOME.....Let us be.........

the u U S have no leg to stand on in an argument about ocupying/living in other countries
and us brits have small towns in spain
BUT maybe we should take our lead from ireland and hunt them all down with guns till they hide in a church

Just as Britian has no leg to stand on in the same argument. If ur referrin to the US military occupyin other countries, that's a whole other argument/debate. This pertains to people who come into the US illegally an then complain when they can't get services they would otherwise be able to obtain if they had come into the country legally.

spot on

Oh jeez! Lucifer is sellin snowcones again

Agreed. Plus if they had kids here, the kids are entitled to a free education, minus tuition. And can not be denied health care.

we agree on more than you realize

yer comin around

Oh I'm sure we can still find plenty to disagree about

wwell gotta keep it interesting

I don't feel that children born here to illegal parents should have the right or claim to citzenship. If they are here legally then yes, they should have the right or choice to claim citzenship.

I would agree, but the people on the Mayflower were not citizens, but their kids were considered to be. It is a loophole, anyone born here is considered to be a US citizen. So my point is that we will not deport millions of illegal aliens when their children are left behind...I.E. Anchor baby term comes to mind.

I can say with all honesty an sincerity, I'm very proud of the fact that my grandmother didn't have that mentality. She came here legally, married, an had children. All the while renewin her green card everytime it came up for renewal. If only millions of others had her morales.

im not refering to military in my previous post, and if you read it, i did point out the british stance in said argument, AND i agree whith o/p as i thought was clear in my final statement

I am a vet and a proud american. But in the end we are all immigrants in some form or another.

Ask the Native Americans who the immigrants are.

Perhaps u should explain urself more clearly. I'm curious to know what countries the US are occupyin?

doesn't Mexico have strict citizenship laws? my understand is...a lot of countries have strict laws...so why shouldn't we be able to enforce the laws we do have?

If Mexico can't take care of themselves, maybe they should just become a part of the U.S.. It would fix problem of immigration and sub standard pay, bring in new tax money, and force the U.S. companies who move there to own up to their tax liabilities.