Now, I don’t consider myself a racist, but maybe to some people I am. And I don’t have a problem with people immigrating to the US, hell 99% of the citizens are descendants from or are immigrants. What I do have a problem with is when people abuse ‘the system’. What do I mean by that? Well, let’s start by looking at the differences between citizens, immigrants, and illegal immigrants. Citizens are people who were either born in this country of have jumped through whatever hoops it is they have to jump through to get their citizenship. They have social security numbers, pay taxes, vote, etc. They have all the rights that come with being a citizen. Legal immigrants are people who have immigrated here through the normal channels and most of them are working on becoming citizens. These people have tax ID numbers (or do they get social security numbers, I don’t know) and pay taxes. They are basically like citizens but lack a few rights that you get when becoming a citizen, and they can’t run for President. Illiegal immigrants are people who snuck into the country, were brought in illegally, or came over legally but did not leave when they were supposed to. They do not have social security numbers, they do not pay taxes, and are not “part of the system.” For this discussion we will consider citizens and legal immigrants as if they were one in the same.

Now that we got that out of the way, lets look at what has my shorts in a knot….

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