You should educate yourself on how difficult this would be for them. These people are Americans.....thank goodness the American Indian could not send us back!

Shadtree, what makes you think these people are American? They aren't. And let's quit talking about what happened when the country was first founded. Things are a lot different now. And believe me, if you have any Indian in you, you get all sorts of benefits. We will be paying the Indians back forever.

Yes, the sooner the better.

Undocumented immigrants DO pay taxes and they DO NOT have access to ANY federal or state benefits except free K-12 public education like everyone else in this country.

Undocumented immigrants pay payroll taxes and sales taxes. If they apply for an ITIN, they can file for income taxes, but since undocumented immigrants are in practice confined to the lowest-wage labor market, they would get money *back* by filing income taxes, so either way they are paying their fair share or more.

Without social security numbers, undocumented immigrants cannot collect social security, medicare, or medicaid benefits despite the fact that they pay into those programs through payroll tax deductions. They do have access to free primary and secondary school, i.e. K-12, like everyone else in the U.S., but they are not eligible for federal or state financial aid for post-secondary school, i.e. college and graduate school. They also have to pay out-of-state tuition even in their home state, with a few exceptions, namely Texas, California. As for other government services, they often don't even have access to the police in practice since secure communities and racial-profiling immigration laws put them at risk for deportation when talking to the police.

This also means that labor laws such as minimum wage are often not applied for undocumented workers. If you have a problem with that, you should have a problem with the employers that pay those wages, not the workers.

I can't keep reading all the comments because it is so disappointing to read all the negativity that most of you have written. It is sad to hear all your selfish comments. You think that some people want to leave their native countries to come to America because they 'WANT'!?!? Well let me tell you the answer NO! Due to circumstances of life, people are faced to make decisions that not always are to their comfort. Not everyone's faith is written with a gold pen! You are quick to point fingers and judge but can never as a human try to put yourselves in these peoples shoes. I am a Latina, & Im not here to steal your money or job! Im here to make a brighter future for myself and family. I work hard just like you or any other citizen! We are no less because of a piece of paper which states if i am or not a Citizen of America! If you would stop for a minute and just stop being so cruel with your comments and rather try to help and add atleast a grain of love rather than hate. We would make a country as strong as America as beautiful as its diversity!!!

Scarleth, are you here legally? If so, great. But our country is in bad shape right now, and even though people are saying that American citizens will not do the jobs that the immigrants will do, they are wrong. I have actually applied for jobs at hotels/motels to clean the rooms, but I haven't gotten one call. Go to any hotel/motel, and most of the employees can't even speak English. You can call us mean and heartless, but tell that to my friend who got hit by someone who was here illegally. He did not have insurance, so her insurance had to pay and it counted against her. If you don't like the comments, don't read them any more. And by the way, jobs are probably just as easy to find in Mexico as they are in America right now. Plus, it's a lot cheaper to live there.

Suggestion: Stitch up your bleeding heart and cut your own yard before an illegal rapes and or kills someone you love.

Yes an orderly path, which exists NOW. So stand in line and wait your turn. We cannot allow gross invasion by all those who wish to come. As to those picked up undocumented found to be violating our laws should be sent back and NEVER allowed to return.

So...you maintain this guy? you pays 100$ to the IRS and think that "we can afford to take care for everybody else..." please..

Most of this is Reagan's fault, granting them amnesty back in the day. Their relatives (which I understand are MANY) saw the free milk and hoped for the same. That's why they're here, waiting for their turn for a free ticket, while breaking just about every law known to man in the process. Some days I think renouncing my citizenship and asking for a free ride like these people do would be a better way to go. I've paid my taxes, at least I've earned it.

Funny how they can't wait 8 years but can miraculously find $5.000 - $10,000 just to be smuggled to the U.S.

The parents brought their children here illegally should bare the burden of those illegal alien children being sent back. Those same parents who made the conscious decision to bring them here illegally in the first place. The break the laws they pay the consequences. We all know this as American Citizens which is the reason we have laws in the first place.

I don't think that Mexico is considered a third-world country. I have been there many times and most of the country is fine. I've been out of work for 2-1/2 years, so how many jobs do you think we have right now.

Starving kids and no jobs. Say, don't we have that here now?

I agree with you 100 per cent. In all the years that he has been here, why hasnt he applied for citizenship? Its not fair to all the people who played by the rules and waited their turns. Why do some peoplec want to continuously reward law breakers. There are a lot of people living in deplorable conditions. Should we take in all of Africa, Haiti, Bosnia? The list goes on and on. The answer is no because we cant even take cars of the legal citizens of America. I am african american and i am very liberal and have a huge heart but I am 100 per cent against illegal immigrants.

Ever seen what happens to illegal immigrants in meh-hi-co? Beaten, jailed, humiliated and in some cases killed? We should apply their own laws to them, the illegals and watch how fast they run for the border. I don't believe illegals have Constitutional rights, therefore 'cruel and unusual' punishment doesn't apply. We'd simply be applying the law of their home county to them here. Sounds fair to me.

I am so sick of illegas saying they do jobs nobody else will do. My grandparents bought their home by working as a maid and a janitor. I have relatives who for generations worked in smelly chicken factories. Now we cant get those jobs because the illegals have them. We fought hard to join unions and get a decent pay wage. Now the employers have found out that they can hire illegals and work them like dogs and pay them less. Illegals are undoing everything my grandparents fought for. They are settin us back 50 freaking years. Who the heck do you think was doing these jobs before you came. American citizens thats who. Illegals think they are above our laws.

A foreigner can get an ITIN if they can't get a social security number. Most of the time you have to live out of the country to get one, and then the time you can spend in the U.S. is limited each year. I have processed thousands of ITINs for foreign investors, so I do know what I am talking about. I doubt very seriously if most of the ILLEGAL aliens here have applied for an ITIN. The only tax that most of them are paying are on things they buy. Do you really think that most of them are filing tax returns? I have been unemployed for 2+ years. Even though I have not applied for a job in a chicken processing plant, I have actually applied to several cleaning companies (even though I have not heard from one of them). I will admit that I am desperate, otherwise I would not do that. But, believe me, most companies hire these people because they don't have to give them any benefits or report them to the IRS or social security administration. And you are helping criminals if you know a lot of illegal immigrants and you don't report them.

Does Mommy know you are on the internet again, junior?

It costs over seven thousand dollars per year to educate a child in Georgia. That is a lot of money. Now multiply that for every illegal child. We borrow billions every year from China. Please put these facts together. Not sustainable. By the way, I work a full time job AND clean office buildings at night to support my children who go to private school and support my disabled mom. I cannot support this student or the legions of others AND take care of my own.

get real. . .. A REAL AMERICAN?????? so full of sh!T. . . . they are not paying their taxes . .. they milk the system to the max. .. .and if you know of these bribes .. A REAL AMERICAN then report the ba5tards that are taking them. I think you may be an illegal yourself. . . .My wife had to wait months for her papers and we were married. . .so why should these people get any thing. . .do it the right way .. . send this kid home. . . BY the way who do you think paid for his schooling while he was here ??? get real. . . not just post your saying "A REAL AMERICAN"

Yes they do pay taxes and the state of Indiana just proved that these so called undocumented people are claiming people who live in their homeland as deductions to the tune of millions of dollars. So they are ripping off the American taxpayers in other ways as well. So get off your high horse and shut up!

Are you serious? Tell you what. Come to Florida sometime, and I will show you what really goes on. I'm sure the groups of illegals (and not that PC 'undocumented' crap the MSM like to use) standing outside Home Depot and Lowes all pay taxes on that 'under the table' money they get. Then we'll go to Walmart where you can watch them pay for cart fulls of crap using food coupons. Want to take a guess where those came from? You can watch the cashier get frustrated because those illegals don;t speak English and cannot understand they have to pay what the food coupons don't cover. Then we're off into the city so you can watch the local news where an illegal raped and killed another legal citizen, or got busted for snorting cocaine by the bag full, or caused a car accident while driving drunk, unlicensed and uninsured, leaving the person they hit to fork out for all their own bills while the illegal runs and hides. Yeah, I believe you are 'A Real American', but one with their head in the sand, or still wearing your rose colored glasses. So yeah, little Hey-soos needs to go back home and do it the right way, since he and mommy have already sucked off the US teat for way too long. It's time to stand up and start fighting back against this invasion of our borders from people who are destroying this country from the inside, or have you noticed yet that the USA is turning into a third world country? I'll mow my own damned yard, thanks!

And what are you doing while suggesting others work at those jobs? Hmm? Sitting on your fat ass while having an illegal cut your yard, making your house look pretty? I know one thing for certain; YOU, are NOT paying for my Interent and health care. I do that myself, being self employed, thanks. I also do my own yard work and all those other labor intensive activities most Americans like you do not want to do. It's called exercise, something the average obese drone refuses to do because their too fat and stuffing too much fast food into their pie holes as fast as they can while claiming disability, thus milking the system in their own way. I'm 40 and in shape because I do my own work, instead of succumbing to the lazy lifestyle afforded to you by the nanny state. I take back what I said about you being 'a real American'. You are 'A Real Collaborator', a Brown Shirt. Do the world a favor and go play 'ball in a cup' with all your illegal friends, vote for Obama one more time and waddle through the ice cream aisle at Walmart, Real Mariacan

Great post I totally agree

Until the United States gets rid of its 900 military bases spread over 140+ countries -- with which you coerce and arm-twist the rest of the world, so that you can fleece their wealth(via thousands of US businesses exploiting cheap labor) -- you will always have immigrants coming here -- in search of what you are taking away, and then flaunting back to then -- in their very eyes.

You have no business of flapping your mouth on immigration -- because you not only have no clue about this issue -- but are further blinded by xenophobic stupidity.

Practically everyone in this country is linked to some immigrant somehow.

Eric I beg to differ on some of your comments President Obama's aunt was recieving social security checks, lived in goverment funded housing and getting a state medical card (you can read the articles in the Boston Globe and she stated it herself on the local news). She was here illegally. I am sure she is one of many. Also in Ca and NJ there were two gentlemen who were here illegally both working jobs with someones social security number (stolen numbers). The one in Ca needed a kidney transplant. How would you feel if they were using your social security number. Also they are getting food stamps and medical cards as well. They do not have a home state as they are here illegally so any state they live in is not their home. I am just saying that as a taxpayer it is not my responsibility to take care of anybody who is here illegally and I do not feel guilty resenting the fact that these kids are brought here and expect more than a legal citizen.

Eric, you are stating all of the things that illegal immigrants CAN'T get because of their status. That is the point. Go home, come back legally, and then you can start to get some benefits. And this kid is getting a scholarship. There are a lot of American citizens who can't get scholarships or financial aid.

Eric,
You are most correct. This is nothing knew, people are just now paying attention. It's been out there for decades. The federal government have been paying hospitals in the state of California for years for taking care of illegal immigrants. They DO NOT get SSA # no matter how hard they try. I am personally aware of government employees that have been fired and charged with selling SSA# to illegal immigrants. The United States would probably get more Border Patrol agents if the starting pay was more than $25K a year - not much for putting your life on the line and about the same as a a city police officer.

A lot of pros and cons on this issue -- every thing is not as it seems.

LOL!

"Undocumented (illegal)" immigrants should not have driver's licenses to begin with. Like it or not, life is not fair. Because of the thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants here, the legal ones will sometimes have problems. Don't blame the police for that - blame the illegal immigrants.

Good. It's about damned time we took back this country from the virals infecting it. Perhaps then the average fat citizen can get off his lazy ass and mow his own yard. Most people in this country could stand to drop 10 or 20 pounds anyway. It's sick what we've let ourselves because, while paying these vermin to do it for us. Just, sick!.

You are a traitor to this country. You go around aiding and abaitting this scum. Where do you get off????? The Mexicans come here to suck our intrastructures dry. SLURP SLURP SLURP.

They don't have a culture of work ethics! All they know is kill and rape and welfare. Just look at their current drug CIVIL WAR south of the rio grande. You need to be charged with treason for your actions. It is federally unconstitutional to give help or friendship to enemies of the state. If your "AMIGO" is getting pulled over by the good AMERICAN POLICE, HE IS DOING SOMETHING WRONG BECAUSE BEING IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY IS ILLEGAL!!!!

Well, you are correct. If I moved to another country legally, I don't think I would have any problem proving I was there legally. Of course, I am a law-abiding citizen.

You may want to cut back on the caffeine... :)

You are correct. In another article, where they are talking about the scholarship this kid got, he admitted he was scared to drive to south Georgia since he didn't have a driver's license. And he's obviously driving since he got pulled over before. He was just blantantly breaking the laws. And then they print an article like this to probably try and make us feel sorry for him. I do feel sorry for him in the fact that his family brought him here in the first place.

There is no article published on South Cobb Patch about Jesus Cruz receiving a scholarship. There is an article published about Rolando Zenteno receiving a scholarship. This story was not published to make anyone feel sorry, but only to inform people about what's going on and to start conversation about it.

You are ILETTERATE!! DO NOT EVER come to my country to lecture me on my constitution! WE do not need "the Hispanic " in my country! The Hispanic is what's driving us bankrupt. Our debt keeps piling up and the liberal policitians just want another group of perpetual voters like the blacks. So they keep giving them the "carrot at the end of the stick." I say deport them all!!!!! Down to MEEEHEEECOOOH with you and the rest of the scum.

Sandy, it...does...not....matter....how....hard....you.....work if you are here illegally. Illegal is criminal.