Thomas Sowell [1]points out how Americans are becoming second class citizens in our own country. There are already numerous ways in which laws discriminate against Americans in favor of illegals, but the Senate legislation makes a bad situation far worse.
Some people are worried that amnesty will give illegal aliens the same rights that American citizens have. In reality, it will give the illegals more rights than the average American citizen.
Since most of the illegals are Mexican, that makes them a minority. Under affirmative action, combined with amnesty, they would have preferences in jobs [2] and other benefits [3].
Those who set up [4] their own businesses [5]would be entitled to preferences in getting government contracts. Their children would be able to get into college ahead of the children of American citizens with better academic qualifications.
Illegals who graduate from a high school in California can already attend the University of California, paying lower tuition [6] that an American citizen from neighboring Oregon.
Under the supposedly "tough" immigration bill in the U.S. Senate, illegals don't have to pay all the back taxes they owe. An American citizen gets no such break [7]from the government and can end up in federal prison, like Al Capone. [8]
If an American citizen gets stopped by the police for a traffic violation [9]and the cops discover that he is wanted for some other violation of the law, they can arrest him for whatever else he has done.
But if an illegal alien gets stopped for going through a red light and the police discovers that he is in the country illegally, in many communities the cop is forbidden to arrest him [10] for that -- or even to report him to the feds. [11]
If an American citizen forges a Social Security card [12]in order to get a job, he can be arrested. Under a provision recently passed by the Senate, illegal aliens who forged Social Security cards not only get a pass, they get to collect Social Security benefits. Bordering on fraud, part III [May 27, 2006] [13]
Links:
[1] http://www.vdare.com/pb/sowell_1987.htm
[2] http://www.vdare.com/malkin/dumbing_down.htm
[3] http://www.vdare.com/fulford/subsidies.htm
[4] http://www.vdare.com/misc/kahn_one_story.htm
[5] http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2005/11/12/indian-motels-and-mexican-illegals/
[6] http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/cork.htm
[7] http://instapundit.com/archives/030595.php
[8] http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm
[9] http://www.vdare.com/blog/092704_blog.htm
[10] http://www.vdare.com/francis/enforce.htm
[11] http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/murder_lobby.htm
[12] http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/ids.htm
[13] http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/05/25/198692.html