No the bastards don't help a damn thing, there are just that many lazy assholes in this country that think they are to good to shovel shit, much less wash a dish. If Americans would do the jobs the mexicans do, this country would never have a unemploment problem. But they think the government owes them. Now that is my thoughts on the illegals. Come in this country legal I have no problem, but when you hear of Americans being killed because ICE didn't deport some illegal, thats what sucks.
But they aren't "lazy assholes... [that] think the government owes them." They take all the shitty jobs (shoveling shit and doing dishes) that most people dont want anyway... They pay income and/or sales taxes (even though they aren't eligible to participate in many of the government programs that those taxes pay for), many of them working 40-60 hours. The study done on Texas immigration's economic impact has concluded that their illigal immigrants netted gains in the hundreds of millions for the state - not losses.
Americans kill people too, btw.
Yes, they're illegal... They should go through the same process as everybody else. Maybe one day lawmakers will take a serious look at immigration reform to more effectively enforce our borders while also making it easy for productive, non-criminal foreigners to come to - and stay - in America... Why shouldn't they be allowed a shot at the American dream? Aren't we all ancestors from immigrants to this nation anyway?
Honestly, it enrages me the way Republicans have played politics with this issue. They play to the xenophobic tendencies that many americans have without ever presenting any facts. The facts tell us that immigration is healthy to our nations economy. Why is this so hard to embrace?
