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  • Question:

    What Social Security benefits are illegal aliens eligible for?

    Asked by: pjsepa from Reston, VA. Received 10 Votes.
    Categories: Immigration. Tags: illegal aliens · social security.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)

    It’s my understanding that if people are hired and they turn in a social security number that they are charged or pay social security. Whether or not they ever collect that would depend on whether they ever get legal and are using a social security number that is legal. I am opposed to agreements with other countries that would allow people, for example in Mexico, to pay into their Mexican system and then draw money out of our system or participate in our system.

    Answered on Aug 7th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Currently there is a lot of discussion on both immigration and military strength. Rather than focus on building walls, why aren't we building recruiting stations on the border with Mexico? It seems like an obvious solution, if a family wants to come to this country then at least one member that family joins a US military branch.

    Asked by: Gabriel Whalen from Fort Belvoir, VA. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Defense · Immigration.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-TX)

    Well, which is really interesting, because you already have many non-citizens serving today. I believe the first soldier who died in Iraq was a non-citizen, someone that illegally immigrated to California, he was an orphan and then joined the Marines and died. I know that we have non-citizens from San Antonio that have died, because actually their funerals took place in Mexico. So you already have that going on to be honest with you. But, no, I don’t think that’s going to be one of these solutions- that if you want to come over here, you join our armed services.

    Answered on May 8th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Do you think a border fence is the answer to our immigration problems?

    Asked by: Matt Cheney from San Francisco, CA. Received 33 Votes.
    Categories: Homeland Security · Immigration · Race & Sex. Tags: border · fence · mexico.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)

    Nobody believes, certainly I don’t that you can just build a fence, pat yourself on the back and say ‘hey, look we secured the border’ because people can cut holes in fences, they can come over it and they can come around it. So, you need to have a solution comprised of people, technology and in some places physical barriers- but it’s got to be a combination.

    Answered on Apr 23rd, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?

    Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Consumer · Economy · Education · Energy · Environment · Globalization · Health · Immigration · Rural · Technology.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

    Nutrition education we already do within health classes. When my kids were in kindergarten or 1st Grade, and how many grains and how many dairies, so nutrition education, yes. One of the other questions to be asked is, is it the federal government’s role to tell schools what they should be doing within the choices that are available within a school. We need to keep in mind that within the past 40 some-odd years, we’ve been doing that within the school lunch program. We have set the standards within school lunches and we say there are standards that need to be met.

    Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?

    Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Consumer · Economy · Education · Energy · Environment · Globalization · Health · Immigration · Rural · Technology.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)

    Well first of all, it’s not up the federal government to mandate what schools teach. I would never want to intrude on the local jurisdiction of schools to decide who they hire, who the fire, what books use. That’s not the role of the federal government. But I do think the role of the federal government is, as long as we’re providing school lunches and school breakfasts and food in schools, that we ought to be able to say what foods would be allowed in those schools.

    Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Congestion, sprawl, schools, health care, crime, pollution, affordable housing, diminishing resources, wages, tax burdens, are all result of unconstrained immigration. How would more people chasing fewer resources address these problems?

    Asked by: Ed Weirdness from Mesquite, TX. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Economy · Education · Environment · Homeland Security · Immigration · Taxes. Tags: crime · economy · education · health care · immigration.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)

    You may see immigration reform come through in pieces. I think we’re going to have to have a legal channel to meet the demands for labor in this country. At the same time security at the border is important. We share this border, we share the problem and we share the responsibility of securing the border on both sides.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Congestion, sprawl, schools, health care, crime, pollution, affordable housing, diminishing resources, wages, tax burdens, are all result of unconstrained immigration. How would more people chasing fewer resources address these problems?

    Asked by: Ed Weirdness from Mesquite, TX. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Economy · Education · Environment · Homeland Security · Immigration · Taxes. Tags: crime · economy · education · health care · immigration.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)

    The first thing is we do have to have border security. The right type of border security; Will that stimulate the economy building the fence?...I’m against the fence. If you’ve going to spend $3 million a mile there are other ways, using technology, getting rid of the Carrizo, the plants that grow so high that border patrol can’t do their jobs. Our economy does depend on people doing certain type of jobs. I would say first, give them to the Americans, but if you have ag products or construction or hotel industry jobs that people don’t want to do those jobs, let someone else do it.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Congestion, sprawl, schools, health care, crime, pollution, affordable housing, diminishing resources, wages, tax burdens, are all result of unconstrained immigration. How would more people chasing fewer resources address these problems?

    Asked by: Ed Weirdness from Mesquite, TX. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Economy · Education · Environment · Homeland Security · Immigration · Taxes. Tags: crime · economy · education · health care · immigration.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA)

    We not only have a right we have a responsibility that American immigration is not first good for America and second good for the immigrant. Usually it’s good for both. There is a legitimate argument that I don’t think people talk about. Every community is concerned about how many people are moving in and the impact on roads and everything else. These are the kind of open and frank discussions that we should encourage without being attacked for the dialog and going back and forth.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

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