Should children of illegal immigrants pay instate tuition?

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Even if it were true that all illegals are only doing work Americans won’t do (and it’s not true at all), the fact is that they broke our laws to come here and generally break many more once here as well as place a large burden on social services at the taxpayer’s expense. If people believe that there’s a need for guest workers (and I’m one who thinks there is) then let’s address that issue and get laws changed rather than use the need as justification for flouting the laws.</p>

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I live in an area where most people hire people to work in their yards cutting grass, doing basic landscaping, etc. I’ve never once had someone who I thought wasn’t an illegal come to my door asking to do work. I’ve never had a neighborhood kid come by and ask to do yard work like I did when I was a kid. I don’t hire illegals but lots of people in my neighborhood do. Some of them would probably rather hire a neighborhood kid but there aren’t any around here soliciting work. The choices end up to be hiring from a legitimate company (who hopefully ensures their workers are legal - this is questionable) or doing it yourself.</p>

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<p>I live in an area that has very high unemployment, as the factory jobs went overseas, esp to Mexico. We have few illegals around here, because there isn’t much work to attract them. Consequently, we have the neighborhood kids vying for the lawnmowing work. The tax base is dwindling, but we do not have the problems of illegals overwhelming the school system or hospitals. Instead, the unemployed factory workers do this. When there are jobs offered at any level, there are huge lines, even for low-paying jobs. If there are health benefits, then this makes the lines longer.</p>

<p>I realize that there are anecdotal stories out of the rural areas that say that they need more apple-pickers. But this begs the real questions about the loss of manufactuting jobs, and the lack of entry level jobs for Americans.</p>