I've got no problem with helping people to assimilate into our country, but their aid should be tied into their ability to settle.
If you come over and you can't speak English, learn. If you pass, we'll help you out. If you fail, you don't stay. That's fairly simple, isn't it?
Immigration is a great thing when it's targetted and planned. But doing it like this is like a football team signing players at random off the street, paying them wages and them putting them out on the field in no order, with no training and no research to find out if they can actually play the game.
I fully agree. I am the granddaughter of Polish immigrants, but they certainly didn't get a handout when they LEGALLY immigrated. They had to make it on their own and it was very hard. My great-grandfather worked at a candy factory in the Boston area and would bring the old conveyer belts home to resole his children's shoes. They never were anything but poor but they survived by their own effort. And their determination allowed my father and now me to achieve comfortable lifestyles in a country in which our ancestors haven't even lived in for 100 years. That is success. I resent those illegal aliens even calling themselves immigrants. Immigrants have something to be proud of; illegal aliens don't.