Here are my two cents:
Putting aside all debates, solely by definition, illegal immigrants are not
citizens of the United States of America. Therefore, they are not
entitled to the basic rights and liberties assigned to citizens of the United
States. They do, on the other hand, have any rights Mexico, Canada,
China, Ukraine, or whatever other country have agreed to under any Swedish
Convention, the right to life, etc., but this does not include the right to use
federal programs of any specific government, save for one(or two, or three)
they are a legal citizens of.
On the subject of illegal immigrants stealing jobs:
I have a house, with a wall, and a fairly nice apple tree in my back
yard. I have children, and these children subsist mainly on apples from
the tree. Due to windfalls from my tree, my children and I maintain a
steady diet. Next door to me, lives a poor family, they have no apple
tree. One day, several children from next door's family climb over my
fence and steal some of the windfalls, as a result, my children and I go hungry
for that day.
An alternate situation would be the poor children taking apples from the tree,
that have yet to become windfalls, and, as a result, my children and I go
hungry the next day.
Are the poor children justified in stealing my apples, they are indeed
misfortunate enough to need to steal apples in order to eat that day, but so is
my family, the only difference is that I have the means that they don't.
How about instead of letting the children steal from my tree, or letting them go hungry,
I give them a bag of apple seeds?
On the subject of jobs being shipped overseas:
When the United States elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt as their somthingth
president, the country was in turmoil, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl were
in full-swing, and the citizens weren't exactly helping the situation.
One situation was the plight of the farmers of the era, they were producing as
much food, cotton, and other crops as possible, in order to maximize profits,
as a result, supply skyrocketed, demand plummeted, and prices fell
drastically. The best way to fix the situation was to stop growing so
much, to reduce supply, thereby increasing demand and price. The problem
with this is that when farmer A and farmer B only plant on half of their land,
farmer C will plant on all of his land, in order to grow more crops and make
more money. But, foreseeing this, farmer A and farmer B plant on the
remaining half of their land, and therefore, no one gets anywhere, and everyone
suffers. It took federal legislation from FDR that paid farmers not to
grow crops (the AAA) to actually fix the problem.
The point is, businesses try to maximize profits, in order to do that, they
screw over other people, but if every business maximizes their profits by screwing
everyone else over, everyone suffers, and the businesses and their competition
are still at equal odds with each other.
So if GM moves to Puerto Rico to make cars for ten bucks a-piece, then Ford
does the same thing, the companies are competing from the same ground again, so
they don't increase profits enough to be worth the switch, and the Americans
who lost their jobs are the ones who struggle for it.
As for illegal immigrants who have, or are able to prove their worthiness of
being a United States citizen, there is such a thing as a Grandfather Clause,
which allows illegal immigrants who have been residents on the United States
for a certain period of time, to take a test to determine their aptitude of the
history of the United States.
/2 cents
Now for a quote from another person, not me:
"It is not the Government's job to be "
