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StellaSlight · 04-15-2004, 09:31 AM

I was myself a political refugee according to the terms of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

I think illegal immigration is a problem for numerous reasons.
It is not human to see the traffic the dealers are doing over people who only want to seek a better place to live. The conditions of the journeys are horrible and most of them die during the trip.
And when they're in the country? That's even worse than in their original country. They have no legal protection, no health care, no existence at all. Lots of them are bound by modern slavery, and they can't even tell about it without denouncing their own situation.

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oh and this is kinda ontopic but maybe kinda off topic also, but i hate it when immigrants who come into the US get all the need they can get (medicare/medical assistance, foodstamps/welfare, ect) but when the citizens (americans) born and raised in the country need the same help, they can't get it. it baffles me and something really should be done about this.

I don't know if this is gonna help you on this particular issue, but I might have an explanation for this.
Imagine an illegal immigrant who has a very serious sickness that he brought up from his original country, or even a hygienic disease that he contracted from his awful conditions of living. Now you can guess that this ill illegal immigrant will not go seek medical help if he has to pay or if he has to reveal his identity. Now you can imagine the consequences if the illegal immigrant doesn't get free medical assistance on the country-born (American) population. Because most of immigrants will not go get medical help otherwise , it is somehow understandable that they get some 'priviledges'.

Now that said, I really think that everyone, immigrants or nationals, should get free medical assistance if necessary. I know that in France the medical system is different from the US and that free medical service is reachable to anyone who's in the need (immigrant, homeless people, jobless people without minumum revenu etc...). Of course we've got the worse debt ever when it comes to Health Service, but I guess it's the price to pay to get low fees for medical care.