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.
It's very strange isn't it? Why isn't the pride of our past and your Grandparents still prevalent? I like the story of the old conveyor belts! People like your grandparents made America great.
Here in the UK, we seem to be happy just to let people in and then let them vanish! Then they show up selling pirate DVD's in pubs, or smuggled cigarettes in shopping centres.
I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a country that other people want to live in. And I'm proud that my government is benevolent enough to grant asylum to the persecuted of the world.
I'm just furious that they think letting them into the country and paying them for doing nothing is where they think their role ends. It does no good to the people of the UK and it does no good to the immigrants who end up illiterate, disenfranchised and firmly entrenched in the black economy.