If you're getting free checks, why bother getting up at 6am?
Consider this: the people who are here legally are the ones who are sleeping in and collecting benefits instead.
If you are a born American with no skills who dropped out of high school, your birth certificate - if parlayed correctly - can get you a better package than busing tables or hanging sheetrock.
You need to come to California to see what illegal immigration has done not only to our public safety net and housing industries, but to our educational and medical systems.
I'd gladly trade even for an equal number of gangbangers and trailer park methheads. But Mexico has to promise to KEEP them!
Which begs the question: with an official unemployment rate hovering around 9% (and actual figures much higher), disproportionately among unskilled and semi-skilled workers, why on Earth do immigration advocates maintain that there's a labor shortage and that we need third world people to do "work that Americans won't do?"
The answer is short-sightedness: employers can save a few dollars on the cheaper labor, even though the long-term social and economic costs of having Mexicans pour in by the millions far outweigh the savings. Even if the illegals aren't collecting benefits, you can bet their anchor-baby children are.