Reply #120: I pay taxes in California. I have no children in public schools. [View All]

[Gormy Cuss]

I hope that my tax dollars are paying to educate the children of illegal immigrants. I do not like the notion of withholding a basic education to any child. Likewise, I do not mind paying for basic health care for everyone and wish we had socialized medicine for all.

As for your question, if a crook broke into my house, I wouldn't think it's OK. I don't condone lawbreaking. The problem I have with your analogy is you think the crook is the illegal immigrant while I think the real crooks are the business and political interests who support our broken immigration system. They're the ones misusing your tax dollars. By hiring illegal immigrants they are depressing their costs and not necessarily passing the savings on to you. You, on the other hand, are expected to subsidize their unpaid fringe costs through taxes. Without willing employers, there would be very few illegal immigrants.

Our immigration policy doesn't work. The time to revise it is long overdue. Legal residents and citizens should not have to compete with a lower paid workforce living under a different set of rules. Seasonal migrants and other short term foreign workers should have the protections of minimum wages, workplace rules and conditions and access to basic taxpayer-funded education and health services just like everyone else.