I work in the US NJ Senators office and we’ve gotten TONS of calls by people INFURIATED that illegal immigrants get social security and health care benefits!

Lets look at this logically shall we? How do people get jobs? Not jobs like cutting grass but real jobs where you need personal identification? They need a social security #! But how do they get a social security # if you’re an illegal alien? You either steal it or borrow somebody elses! Now how do people get benefits? They’re paid out to the name of the person on the social security card! So HOW IN THE WORLD could illegal immigrants get benefits? Just looking at this logically it doesn’t fit at all!

I have strong opinions about illegal immigration as well, but you can’t make up lies to support your point. If you have a good point to make, then you shouldn’t have to make up lies (and there are PLENTY of TRUTHFUL points to make!). These ridiculous ideas put forth by people like Lou Dobbs, Republican pundits, and Fox News ought to be silenced. If we’re to fix this issue lets have REAL DEBATE, not hate speech based on faulty evidence!

The “health care” illegals “supposedly” get is actually free hospital care that MUST be given at emergency hospitals if you wait in the emergency room. Although I don’t think illegals should get actual health care, if someone got shot: Please fix them up! It doesn’t cost us THAT much, and I don’t see how we can just let them die because they shouldn’t be here…

As for “social security”, the only legislation that has been talked about (I don’t even think its been passed, nor necessarily that it will be passed) is legislation that would simply give illegals their money back for the benefits they paid towards but never got. Now you can say that they should have to pay towards benefits anyways and not get anything back, but don’t act like there is NO ARGUMENT to be made that if they aren’t getting any benefits, they shouldn’t have to pay for them…

Another common sense argument – ILLEGAL ALIENS CAN’T VOTE! Nor is the legal Hispanic population so high that congress would actually make such crazy legislation giving illegals health care and social security – whats the point? Politicians aren’t getting anything from it… It would only make them lose votes, not gain them!

If ANYTHING, we’re BENEFITING because illegal immigrants are paying TOWARDS benefits but not actually GETTING any… Now I don’t like illegal immigration either, but quit the hate speech! Lets put our cards on the table…