text: are americans suffering because illegals keep getting monies? many americans are struggling and cannot get the benefits that illegals get.  why are we spending so much money on illegals for education in over crowed schools, health care in a society where many american workers do not have insurance, and other benefits americans try to get but cannot get what them - yet illegals do?  this includes our elderly who have to choose between eating or taking their medication. illegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. that means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having irs problems, and social security problems. if someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits.   my family moved to the us before wwii. those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. our family assimilated to the american culture. we didn't expect the americans to change to suit us. the illegal immigrants from mexico are not civilized like that.  they not only changed the national anthem to spanish, they changed the words. they already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. they waved the mexican flag during a lot of their protests. some schools have stopped hanging the american flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the american flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the mexicans. it's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them.   i am tired of the stereotype that americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for u.s. citizens. construction jobs are an example. there are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. all that does is make companies wealthier and americans poorer. illegals are stealing jobs that americans have done for years.   if you go to a country and refuse to assimilate, continuing to speak your own language then you are really not an immigrant -- you're a colonist ... and that's what the mexicans are doing, they're colonizing the american southwest as part of their "reconquista" read about mecha in the link i provided and you'll see what the mexicans real agenda is.  http://www.americanpatrol.com/mecha/mechaindex.html