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Originally Posted by NewWine
I think the first question is really a true issue in all the illegal immigration kerfuffle. From what I have seen on protest signs around the country, it seems to me that those that are here illegally believe that they are entitled to the same rights as U.S. citizens. Now when you think about this that would mean in their minds our U.S. Constitution applies to them as well.
Jurisdiction of the United States: If they commit a crime they are prosecuted here. But that one law which is a felony, the one about entering the country illegally, everyone has the worst case of glaucoma. That's a resounding you betcha they are.
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If anyone commits a crime anywhere, they are prosecuted there. That American girl who was convicted of murder in Italy recently isn't an Italian citizen suddenly because of the conviction.
http://www.people.com/people/article...324839,00.html
Illegals are not subject to Federal income taxes, though they may end up having their earnings taxed any how because of fraudulent Social Security numbers and such. In any event, they are at least not
subject to FICA taxation and are ineligible for SS benefits.
They do have many rights guaranteed them simply as human beings. If someone were to murder an illegal they would face the same level of prosecution that the murder of a US citizen would entail; but this would not confer nor imply citizenship. It's just the just thing to do.
Frankly, most people turned a blind eye to the illegals because it was often in our best interests to do so. When their numbers increase to a point that it's no longer in our best interests to tolerate the illegality, we change our attitudes.
That strikes many illegals and their descendants as unfair, but it's really a whole lot more fair than the treatment they receive back in Mexico and certainly many magnitudes of "more fair" than the treatment an American citizen would find in Mexico if the roles were reversed.
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