>>>And though my thread title was about paying, it's more than that. Other than the most basic health care, I don't believe anyone here illegally should be given anything.
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>>So children of illegals shouldn't be able to go to school? How would that help anybody?
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>>Tamar
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>Typical answer. Find the bleeding heartstring.
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>No, they shouldn't. Everyone should go home when they are found to be illegal. That would probely happen about the same time they went to register for school.

And in the families where the children were born here, so they are citizens? What are you going to do there?

Bottom line is that we're all better off is every child in this country, whether legal or not, gets a good education and, as you said, health care (though I'd argue about only the most basic).

Tamar