Thank you! I was totally unaware that the parents could also qualify for benefits such as medicare, though I knew the child could. I am firmly against conferring citizenship on someone born here to parents here illegally. That is one of the most illogical things that I can conceive of. My solution would be to care for both parents and child while they are in the deportation process, and get them out of the country as quickly, and humanely, as possible.
I know that there is a problem created by our government and the employers who hire these illegals, and there are some very big companies that make a practice of this and influence government policy. Howard industries in Ellisville Mississippi is one such company. And I would be rather shocked to find that the big poultry processors in the Deep South are not also hiring many illegals. (How this is handled with the IRS baffles me. Why aren't the employers of these illegals in jail?) In some instances this practice has gone on for so long that the children born to these illegal workers are graduates of American public schools and have lived, through no fault of their own, their entire lives in the U.S. Whatever solution is arrived at to get this situation under control must take account of this situation. I can conceive of some compromise, cut-off age for the child, beyond which the child and parent can be offered a path to legalization. But we must get this problem under control. The most effective way would be to start jailing the employers. I guarantee that would quickly solve the problem created by employers hiring illegals, but it would make the residual problem of all those illegals, with children born here, even worse. What a mess for us our vaunted American Business Community has created for us all!
