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On May 12, 2008 I wrote an article titled, Illegal Immigrants Sense of Entitlement. I was stunned yesterday when I found a comment from a woman claiming to be here legally, but now is helping her husband with his “papers” who entered the United States illegally. Though I suspect she too is here illegally, I have no way to prove this. But what she wrote more than just chapped my hide - it angered me as an American citizen and it should anger you too.

The premise of what I wrote was simply this:

Under the Senate approved proposal regarding The 2008 Economic Stimulus, illegal immigrants will not be eligible to receive tax rebate checks for obvious reasons. But where I live I have heard all the complaining one has to put up with regarding this issue before you tell someone to just shut up!

It is amazingly ignorant that people with no sense of honor and decency to enter the U.S. legally, would have the gall to complain that they are not going to be allowed to get a stimulus check. Why should they? They did not even file taxes. They are here illegally. What don’t they get?

This year it was imperative to ask about ones legal status because of the stimulus, so many illegals did not file their taxes this year. Boo hoo hoo, no sympathy here.

A neighbor actually had the nerve to show their anger and disgust towards my husband when they realized he was eligible and they were not. Sorry, but that is the price paid when one comes into any nation illegally. These illegals have no rights to what a citizen or even a documented worker would have the rights too.

Aside from all this my husband is American, born and raised in Chicago and of Puerto Rican decent. He resents the fact that so many illegals have given decent Hispanics a horrid reputation now.

l concluded my article saying, “I for one am pleased that they are not part of the stimulus package. It is bad enough we must deal with the baggage these illegals bring with them once they are here. I look to this stimulus as a payment owed the American people for having been forced to put up with the abuse sustained by those that have entered our home, The United States, illegally. That is the price they must pay - illegal immigrants are not entitled to our stimulus. And all their anger and boo hooing gets them nada!“

I had several positive comments from thinking people that realize the illegal immigration situation is not going away and that we need more than just reforms to resolve this ongoing issue. We all know that enforcement of our existing laws on the books regarding illegal immigration are not being enforced. We all realize that it is the lack of enforcement that is enabling this “entitlement” issue amongst illegal immigrants.

Read this woman’s brazen comment:

oh You Layla and everyone else must not understand why illegals are mad ,My situation is a little different Yes my husband is illegal we are now going through the process of his papers ,But he has filed taxes every year that hes been here going on 10 yrs. and Im legal and so are my 4 children that we filed last year .I am intilted to my and my childrens part legally. so before you all think its not right your wrong we deserve it too and still cant recieve it
Brenda Calderon on May 28th, 2008

I normally correct my readers typos when they leave comments because I do not want them embarrassed later by someone else pointing their mistake out to them. I know how embarrassing that can be as I have had my grammatical and spelling errors pointed out to me on more than one occasion. But this time I decided to leave every error in tact simply because this commenter believes she and her illegal husband are entitled to priviledges shared only by those who live in our nation legally.

I was so outraged that I left quite a lengthy comment that I would like to share here with my readers. I find the attitude of this woman inexcusable.

What I had to say about her “sense of entitlement”

Any child of an illegal immigrant is a child here legally. That is the law. However, unfortunately our government, ICE, and police officials have themselves broken our own laws by not following our immigration laws on the books.

You may have come here legally, had your children so that they would be here legally, but I am sorry, your husband BROKE the laws on the books. Just because apologists in our government, ICE, and the police do not themselves follow the law, this in and of itself does not change the law, nor does it ENTITLE your husband to anything BUT DEPORTATION for entering a country illegally.

Furthermore, if this was reversed I am quite sure your home country would deport any and all doing what people such as you and your husband are doing. Technically what you did to enable your husband is illegal - but apologists at ICE are not reporting you thus breaking the law themselves.

You may call this mercy, I call it wrong and just as immoral as your illegal husband entering the US illegally. It is appalling and disgusting and I loathe people that think we owe YOU something. We OWE you NOTHING.

You are selfish to deny people the right to enter here legally when you believe that you can surpass them by breaking the law because YOU THINK you are entitled to do so.

If you really are here legally, I am ashamed to have a potential American citizen like you to call my fellow American. My REAL fellow Americans follow the law of the land, they do not break them. Those that do are jailed.

Your husband should be picked up by ICE and deported. Let him return legally as so many others have been forced to do.

I am from a family of immigrants that came here legally that felt entitled to nothing except to help this nation become greater and felt giving to this nation was what made it great, not taking what is not theirs or their right to have.

People with your mindset turn my stomach. Entitled? You and yours are entitled to nothing when YOU BREAK THE LAW.

I believe I have made my point quite clear. Need I say more?