• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Honestly, I’m not even sure how I feel about this, or why it’s a devisive issue. I think all social services should be reserved for people who are citizens, but children born here are this, so…

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      4 months ago

      The article does a good job of giving the reasons for this, but I’ll try to explain the justification. Quite simply, kids end up here because of their parents decisions. Since they are here, the decision was made that more harm would be caused (and more money spent) depriving these people an education instead of just letting them be kids.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah these children should totally suffer and be forced to grow up without an education because they were brought here as an infant.

      Illegal immigrants pay $12+ billion in taxes every year while receiving essentially no benefit from it (no, they aren’t collecting Social Security and Unemployment).

      I’m ok with not dooming these blameless children to a life of ignorance and poverty as maybe the one fucking thing these people receive from the government.

      You’d think we’d want more educated people in our country… Citizen or not. Only one reason I can think of that a person would be against this.