Illegal immigrants get a free ride

Letter date: 
Friday, August 28, 2015
Letter publisher: 
The Register Guard
Letter author: 
Dianna Allison
Letter body: 

Regarding the Aug. 25 letter about how there are jobs Americans won’t do and that’s why we need illegal immigrants to do those jobs, here are the facts:

Native-born Americans make up 51 percent of all maids and housekeepers, 66 percent of all construction workers and 73 percent of all janitors.

I won’t go into who picks our fruit, etc., because some of that’s done under the table — meaning that illegal immigrants aren’t only being paid to pick fruit, they’re also receiving free services in the form medical care and food from the state Department of Human Services.

If an immigrant’s “anchor baby” is disabled, they can apply for and get Social Security Disability Insurance within six months, whereas it takes most U.S. citizens two years or more to receive that same benefit.

Why? Because citizens have to show proper identification, including a Social Security number, to set up a bank account, while illegal immigrants can walk into any bank and say “No hablo ingles” and get anything they want.

My great-grandmother was so proud of her citizenship she would show her citizenship papers to anyone she could. I, too, am proud to be a European-American; my father was German and my mother is Czechoslovakian.