Kudos for them trying to make a living in the legal way but if they came over here expecting a hand out, I'm not too keen on that idea. I don't know of their situation so case by case will be considered. Many of them have left the service business, who knows where they went afterwards.
This is directed at everyone, not any'one'...
Your 'forefathers' came over here on BOATS expecting the same thing, and look what the American Indian got for giving YOU a helping hand. The 'Mexicans' or Illegals, as you label them, were here
before ALL of you and your 'people' shoved them back in the 'corner' of the country and acted like you 'deserved' (through genocide, slavery, oppression, etc.) one of the biggest 'hand-outs' in world history.
I can't un-see the flaw in that logic...and, I would bet, again, almost all of you have taken a 'hand' out from the government, in one form or another (taxes, including the refunds, write-offs etc.), and who here hasn't, or if it's still here, will be, excepting Social Security (the biggest hand out in modern US history) then there is farm subsidies, unemployment...etc. etc. etc.
If the US didn't have immigrants, PAST and PRESENT, we would still be a third world entity. You have gotten pretty much everything you have, due in large part(s), to immigrants.
Lady Liberty told ALL of you to
share ...in her freedom, your constitution tells you that we are ALL
created equal! Your God tells you we are ALL His
children!
Get over it. If we used a case by case 'basis', you would be the 'first' to go.