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Do "illegal" aliens have the same rights as citizens?

Do "illegal" aliens have the same rights as citizens?


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Other than human rights, no.
 
Some rights. There are certainly some that are reserved for citizens. However, notably, the Bill of Rights never uses the word citizen. Everyone in this country, regardless of how they came to be there, is protected by the Bill of Rights.
 
I dont think uninvited guests should have rights. I do think if those guest are allowed to stay and work for years and years at some point they do earn rights.
 
I dont think uninvited guests should have rights. I do think if those guest are allowed to stay and work for years and years at some point they do earn rights.
Sounds more like privileges than rights. Isn't the point of negative rights that they don't have to be earned?
 
They should be afforded no rights. Oh, we shouldn't treat them cruelly, but there should be no rights attached to their illegal endeavor. Our rights to preserve our nation against invasion should be paramount.
 
I have not thought about this before. Should citizenship or legal immigration be like common law marriage? after so long...
Sounds more like privileges than rights. Isn't the point of negative rights that they don't have to be earned?
 
We should not have let them stay for decades.
They should be afforded no rights. Oh, we shouldn't treat them cruelly, but there should be no rights attached to their illegal endeavor. Our rights to preserve our nation against invasion should be paramount.
 
They should be afforded no rights. Oh, we shouldn't treat them cruelly, but there should be no rights attached to their illegal endeavor. Our rights to preserve our nation against invasion should be paramount.
The right to vote with ones feet is sacrosanct. Nothing supersedes this.
 
They can have basic rights of privacy and representation but not a right to work for pay, own property, avail themselves of public services or remain in the country.
 
The right to vote with ones feet is sacrosanct. Nothing supersedes this.

That's entirely untrue. If it were the case there would have been no Civil War and there would be a CSA today.
 
By law they do, so I dont see the point of the poll.
 
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Can you specify which rights? Right to be treated fairly as per the Constitution if accused of a crime? Right to receive public aid if otherwise not committing a crime? It's unfair to ask such a vague question then watch everybody twist in the wind trying to guess what you meant.
 
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They can have basic rights of privacy and representation but not a right to work for pay, own property,
Everyone has a right to own property in the US, even non-residents. The US is the worlds premier asset haven, so foreigners from all over buy property. As far as work goes, seems like you'd be violating a citizens right to free association. What gives you the right to tell business owners who they can hire, or landlords who they can rent to?
 
Some rights. There are certainly some that are reserved for citizens. However, notably, the Bill of Rights never uses the word citizen. Everyone in this country, regardless of how they came to be there, is protected by the Bill of Rights.

So when the BOR refers to "the people", it means "the people of the world"?
 
Everyone has a right to own property in the US, even non-residents. The US is the worlds premier asset haven, so foreigners from all over buy property. As far as work goes, seems like you'd be violating a citizens right to free association. What gives you the right to tell business owners who they can hire, or landlords who they can rent to?

Business is regulated by Congress and the States by Constitution. So the Constitution, state and federal, gives the right to regulate business. As far as the ownership of property, we should have stopped that ages ago, most nations don't allow it. But even keeping it, good, gives us something to seize when they're found here illegally. Helps pay for their deportation.
 
Business is regulated by Congress and the States by Constitution. So the Constitution, state and federal, gives the right to regulate business. As far as the ownership of property, we should have stopped that ages ago, most nations don't allow it. But even keeping it, good, gives us something to seize when they're found here illegally. Helps pay for their deportation.
A lot of crappy countries don't allow foreigners to own property, but all the countries that top the Heritage Foundations Economic Freedom Index do.
 
Can you specify which rights? Right to be treated fairly as per the Constitution if accused of a crime? Right to receive public aid if otherwise not committing a crime? It's unfair to ask such a vague question then watch everybody twist in the wind trying to guess what you meant.
I am sorry, I should have mentioned the Bill Of Rights in the OP.
 
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First off, why the quotations around illegal?

For the purposes of this question, the hypothetical scenario implies that the emigrant is illegal, if I was asking does 2+2 equal four would you put quotation marks around the four? Someone is legally in the country or they're not it's that simple.

I would ask this, if an illegal immigrant has the same rights as a legal resident, should they be able to walk into a gun shop, fill out the 4473 truthfully stating they're unlawful alien on the form and receive their firearm?

Once an illegal immigrant can do that then we'll say I have the same rights as everyone else
How about a passport, set an illegal immigrant be eligible to receive a United States passport?
 
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