giving hard working illegal immigrants american citizenship

They are criminals, just the same as one who would work hard to rob a bank, or steal jewelery. So I conclude with this, why in any scope of the word; by any definition is it ever right to reward those who break the law? this is what you stated, and this is why I used Rosa Park as an example, now answer the question and not cowardly hide from it was Rosa Park a criminal for breaking the law in that bus, and was she a criminal just like a bank robber or drug dealer, and should she bin punished rather then rewarded IF THE LAW IS MORALLY WRONG IT IS MEANT TO BE BROKEN, JUST LIKE ROSA PARK DID AND JUST LIKE MANY ILLEGALS DO TODAY The aboriginals had trible rules that the first american immigrants broke when they took their land by force and killed them. So yes america was founded on illegal immigration and further more the first immigration laws were during the founding fathers that if you can make it from your native country to the united states it was good enough for you to be an american I can tell you never travelled so ill explain it this way, being indian american 98% of the people who immigrate to america from my community got to immigrate here cause they had a family member here that brought them over or cause back home they had the tools available to get the best possible education to get the credentials to immigrate to the united states, now in india their our many people who work alot harder and have worked alot harder then indians who have immigrated from india to america and they would love to have the same oppurtunity of immigrating but problem is the tools they are handed are not good enough, they have very bad schools were alot of the teachers arn't qualified to teach, alot of post secondary's in india don't look at the schools alot of these poor attend as legitimate, and alot of these kidss work while they attend school trying to get the best grades so they can help feed their familys same thing goes for some of the poorest in south america, they want to come to america and will work harder then anyone else to have a chance at comming legally to the united states but the tools they are given arn't good enough, once again they go to horrible schools were alot of the teachers are not qualified, family has no money and they live out on the streets, kids during the day take up horrible jobs just to help feed their familys, and when they grow up many of them from south america risk their lives to come to america hoping to give their children a better life, and they risk their lives to cross the border cause they never had a legitimate chance at school at life Most these illegals love america more then your average american and are the hardest working people in the country, they work like slaves some work 18 hours a day for very low degrading wages, if we give them citizenship we can let them have equal rights and live up to their potential and contribute to the united states through their hard work Let them work and have a shot at a american citizenship they deserve it, especially the once who have children fighting in iraq and afghanistan, how can you deport a soldeir in afghanistan parants back cause they are illegal the least we can do is give that soldiers family citizenship cause that soldier risked his life to fight for this country, (something many cowards on the right don't have the guts to do but had no problem sending are troops to iraq) As well some of the poorest of the poor in these country's start working at the age of 6 making few cents a minute and im pretty sure many of us heard their stories and many don't get a shot at education and many of them grow up in south america and decide to cross the border just to give their family a shot at the american dream If an illegal croses the border and sells drugs deport them back, but if an illegal is an honest hard worker who just wants to provide for his family then lets give him an oppurtunity at the american dream and an american citizenship This country was founded on illegal immigration and on immigrants who only had to make it to the united states to be considered americans Lets start working on reforming the immigration policy's so everyone in this world has an equal shot at the american dream and the once who work the hardest should have the oppurtunity at it cause they want it more then anyone else Only an idiot would believe a human would risk his life to cross the border to worry about being deported to live like a slave cause they didn't have the patients to wait a few years to get the proper paper work done so they could cross the border without risking their life and to live with the same rights as any other american with no worry of deportation and with full access at the american dream. Many of these illegals never had a shot at the american dream hence why they risk their lives to live the way they do to get to america and provide for family's With the exception of Native Americans, all citizens of the United States are the beneficiaries of illegal immigration. All of the colonial world would have been deemed as illegal immigrants had Native Americans ("native," being the operative word) codified a nation of their own with specified borders The real issue at the heart of the debate, besides the latent racist and xenophobic arguments hidden in a sea of fallacious arguments typical of the anti-immigration crowd, is directly attributed to the entitlement programs of the United States. Entitlement programs are simply, for lack of a better term, socialist programs that indiscriminately give to those who have not contributed. Why not simply get rid of the entitlement programs, but keep the people who have just come here to provide their family the best opportunity possible? Immigrants to the US in the past had to be self-reliant, learned to be self-reliant, and were some of the most enterprising individuals on the face of the earth. The welfare state, with the promise of instant subsistence, is the real enemy, not immigration itself. That distinction cannot be overstated. Medicaid, Section 8 housing, food stamps, public education, etc, are the tools of dependence. You get rid of that and immigrants, nor natives, can exploit the system.