(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I read an article about a girl who is an illegal immigrant who received a full scholarship to college but was fearful that she would not be able to attend the college due to the rejection of the new immigration laws. People were also protesting this girls ability to attend the college because it was unfair to true Americans.

The main point of contention here is that she beat out thousands of other legitimate Americans to receive the scholarship. But my question is, what makes her less American than the other candidates aside from a social security number? In essence she could be twenty times more patriotic than any other candidate and thus be considered 'more American'.

I do not agree with immigrants crossing the border and taking jobs from blue collar American workers but if someone like that girl who has been living in the country for 18 years is denied citizenship I don't think that's fair either because they've had all that time to learn about American culture and values through their time at compulsory schooling.

For those of you who didn't automatically say to yourselves tl;dr what do you think, should the girl be granted citizenship?

The immigrants are taking most of the jobs that the 'Blue Collar Americans' don't want to do. Nothing racist, but I see a lot of immigrants working on the fields and doing gardening and such, seriously. To me, it doesn't matter where your from, it's how you make the best out of your current situation. Life in under developed countries is sad, health wise, it's a disaster. I know this because I wasn't born in the U.S. So, it's only natural to seek a better place to live,etc. Parent's want the best for their children, and coming to America is a means of achieving that. If you make it over the border, you should be granted citizenship, or at least be able to legally have an education and a chance at a decent job. We are all humans, race was just a concept.

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And he's back.

If she has the knowledge to succeed, and wants to learn and become something, why deny her? Kids in America don't have that drive anymore, at least not a lot of them. They feel as they've got an easy life, so they slack on the educational part of it. Why put down somebody that actually has a passion to learn, AND is succeeding?

there are plenty of colleges in mexico for people like her not every part of mexico is drugs and violence

you are right about the drive of americans though im the only one out of my friends that has a higher gpa than 3.5 and i still think i slack a lot

Illegal immigrants are the reason why health care rates went up in the first place. They should just come in the right way-- I mean how's that a hard thing to do? They chose to be hishonest and sneak into our country and take advantage of benefits that shouldn't apply to non citizens, therefore it would be best to deport them and either they come in the right way or they don't come in at all.