POLL: What about illegal immigrants

I would like the illegal to pay for all these taxes that i paying to IRS to live here. I have seen them go into the banks with rolls of money in their hands and I work everyday and dont have 20 dollar's in my pocket.

My Mom is a British citizen. My Dady was in the United States Army when they met and married. Before Mom died, our gov't told her to become a citizen or lose all her priveledges; no more commisary, px, and medical. My Mom came here legally. My Daddy served his country during two wars. Mom was forced to become a US citizen. I have a disease that I will die from. I get no help from the state of Texas or any gov't agency. I know an illegal who gets a social security check but she has never worked. How is that fair? I guess it is not so bad living in gov't housing, receiving food stamps, welfare and free medical. I worry every day about where the money will come from to buy my meds.

As a child of LEGAL immigrants who became proud naturalized U.S. citizens and have always respected the laws, norms and customs of this great country, I am sick and tired of apologists and advocates for illegal aliens. It's no badge of honor to cheat your way into this country and "succeed" despite the "hardship" of being a criminal. For Pete's sake, we should be celebrating the achievements of ordinary law-abiding citizens. There are still 14 million unemployed Americans and many, many more that are underemployed. Any business that is profitting by hiring illegal aliens and cheating the states/cities/counties out of tax revenue, not paying unemployment and worker's compensation SHOULD go out of business. Any business that thrives because it caters to illegal alien customers SHOULD go out business. Market forces will take over, honest law-abiding businesses will survive and prosper. Just SAY NO MAS to illegal aliens and their employers. Si se puede..enforce the law.

Not only do illegals create problems here in the US, they also create some in their home countries. The money they send back to relatives is driving their markets to higher food, consumer goods pricing. Their relatives in the home countries are beginning to refuse work while living off US funded monies some are demanding higher pay for the jobs available or refuse now to work. Others where all family members remained in the home country can no longer afford the rise in consumer prices. All they are doing is draining the US while at the same time creating a larger number of poor and lazy in their home country.

The whole concept of saying illegals are doing the jobs "no one else wants" is a crock. Business owners who hire illegals know they can pay crummy wages to people who won't complain, because they have no one to complain to, since they are in this country illegally. If business owners who hire illegals are punished for doing so, then they will be forced to hire people at appropriate wages, thus making those "unwanted jobs" more appealing to the legal citizens of this country. Illegal aliens are just that: ILLEGAL. Should rapists rally in the streets and say their crime should be overlooked because they simply had the urge to rape? Should we look the other way when criminals rob a bank, because after all, they only robbed that bank because they needed more money? NO! So we most certainly shouldn't allow illegals to sneak into our country and grant them rights, protection & job opportunities. Hell, I "want a better life" too, but I don't break laws to get that "better" life.

I agree. IMPEACH O'MALLEY!!!! He's supporting illegals so HE can gain votes from the Hispanic community. Meanwhile, illegals are breaking laws, evading taxes, and causing negative population growth in our communities. O'Malley doesn't understand the difference between legal & illegal immigration. I am INSULTED when he keeps saying we are a "nation of immigrants". Sure, my ancestors are immigrants, but they came here LEGALLY, waited for their proper documentation to be in this country, and learned the language of this country. They didn't sneak across a border ILLEGALLY and then demand rights from the country they are violating. Until we punish those who are breaking the laws of our land, it can only go downhill from here.

What a joke!!! Martin O'M wants top security but coddles illegal immigrants. Send the illegals back and impeach O'Malley.

All illegal immigrants should be deported to their native countries, immediately.

Absolutely they should be sent home. The federal laws against hiring illegals should be enforced. Employers should be fined BIG BUCKS for hiring illegals with prison sentences for repeat hiring.

Big business outsourced as many american jobs as they could so now they are importing legal (H-1B,H-2A)workers to take high paying jobs besides all the Illegals that have,in some documented cases, been brought here by companies for one purpose,to take american jobs because they work for much lower wages ! I don't care what type of job you are in,if immigration is not stopped your job may be next ! One more reason it must stop,quality of life & OVER POPULATION !

Yes! Illegal immigrants should be sent home.Does anyone know the definition of the word illegal? Does't look like it!. Community leaders ! Give me a break!

when illegals start to pay taxes, they won't be able to afford to live here and they will go home by themselves

These illegals should be made to come here the legal way. But more than that, the law allowing American citizenship to children born in this country, even to illegal aliens, is just stupid and wrong. These people coming over here present a tremendous burden to our medical, police, and other esential resources. They also can be victimized by unscrupulous employers, who hire them, and then not pay them, because they know they will fear being deported. These people really are modern day slaves, and they are being exploited, all the while there are people in this country that need work. There are people here that "DO" want to do those jobs, and cannot compete with the cutrate labor these people are flooding our economy with. First they will be taking out trash and doing your laundry. But it won't be long before they are taking more professional jobs, and their illegal-legal children competing (and getting) jobs your children went to school for. We need to stop this now!

Illegal Immigrants want jobs to work here so they first break the law to come here illegally. You say businesses wants these lower paying illegal immigrants as laborers, remember, that once you give these people legal status and make them pay taxes, sounds great right? Everyone wins? WRONG. Now no longer illegal, they now have rights under the labor laws, which means they are going to wat more than the $5/hour or whatever they were getting paid, especially if they are required to pay taxes. And the employers are now going to have to provide benefits, which cost more money. These new legalized laborers are going to want $10/hour or whatever the average citizens are making. Then these employers will get rid of them and find new illegal laborers at cheaper rates. and now we have a new class of unskilled, unemployed group of people collecting unemployment and social security.. why? because they are now LEGALIZED. Once you give something to someone, you can't get it back, like Green Car

"living in cramped quaters, not having any healthcare or benefits sounds like such a fabulous "free ride" you might want to consider living under those circumstances and see how great it is." Uh, living in 'cramped quarters' - like in 25-30 people (which is against the law) and 'no benefits'? What about the free medical at the hospitals and the free schooling for their kids? These people are LAWBREAKERS - FOREIGN LAWBREAKERS. Guess what? There are many millions of AMERICAN CITIZENS living in the same condition (other than the 25-30 living to a house; otherwise, they'd be thrown out on the street for 'violating' a 'law') that you just described; yet the illegal aliens come here and lower the wages while the impoverished American citizens have no hope of gaining meaningful - ABOVE POVERTY WAGES - employment, due to your friends, the illegal aliens. And, myself, growing up, had a hard life - just as millions of other Americans did; apparently, you are young and spoil

I think, given the opportunity, illiegal immgrants would pay taxes, learn to speak english and be important contributors to the local and national population. The process to get to that point is difficult. I think it is a stretch to say that they somehow "benefit" by continuing to not be full-fleged citizens. If you think doing the work that no one else wants to do, living in cramped quaters, not having any healthcare or benefits sounds like such a fabulous "free ride" you might want to consider living under those circumstances and see how great it is. I would imagine your tune would change. If society though about illegal immigrants as people rather than an invisible workforce or a social commodity then I think a great deal more empathy and assistance would be exntended to them.

Martin O'Malley supports these illegal criminals. He wants to continue to allow them to come to Maryland and obtain driver's licenses without proper documentation. Remember the sniper shootings? Yep...Lee Boyd Malvo was an illegal immigrant. Last year a young soldier from Maryland was home for Thanksgiving and was killed by a drunk driver...also an illegal immigrant. Our public schools are now being forced to hire more and more ESOL teachers (English as a second language) because of all the non-English speaking children of illegal immigrants. Our hospital emergency rooms are flooded with illegals using our health care system to their advantage. They are draining all of our taxpayer-funded services without paying into these services that legal, taxpaying citizens make available to everyone. It's time we stand up here in Maryland and elect the officials who will take steps to punish these illegals and speak out for us, the LEGAL, TAXPAYING citizens of Maryland!!!

They are not "immigrants", but criminals. Immigrants are people like my parents who spent years saving up for the expense and the time to come to America correctly and legally. My father enlisted in the US Army to prove his loyalty to the US and was rewarded with citizenship after Vietnam. The illegal aliens' first act was to violate the laws of the US. Where do their loyalties lie? Will they simply abandon our country just like their original home country when things get tough? They have shown that they will break any law if it suits them, so how can anyone consider them trustworthy? Of course here in Maryland, apologizing for and allowing criminal behavior is practically part of the state Constitution. This state will even issue a driver's license to these criminals without checking if they are here legally!! These criminals tarnish all the real immigrants who did it via the correct legal pathways.