Illegal Aliens

I am straying from my last post, but I think this needs to be said.  I work with a man, 66 years old.  He is of Spanish descent.  He is American.  He will tell you that he is not Mexican.  He is American.  This man never went to school.  He was working in the fields by the time he was 5 years old.  He has spent his life working.  He had retired, but returned to work because medical problems took all his savings.  He told me about working alongside illegals and them bragging about what government benefits they could get.  One even told him that he came to the United States because the government has to help you with your children until they are 18.  He worked and built himself and his family a small house.  One of the illegals he worked with at the city built his family a brick home,  drove a new truck, wife drove a new car.  He bragged to this older American that he got a large sum of food stamps for his family and that they always went to the Emergency Room and free clinics because he did not want to pay for anything.  My friend found this particularly galling in light of the fact that he is an American citizen and could get no help when his wife was sick with cancer.  He has never taken anything and is very proud of this.  It makes him very angry that he is "tarred with the same stench as the illegals simply because of his heritage."  I share his anger.  And this proud man got his GED when he was 42 years old.  This man is what America needs more of.