Nonsense. There are three million illegals in LA county. When they get sick they go to county hospital emergency rooms who are required to treat them. How to you think hospitals cover the cost of treating them? They have to raise the cost to the paying customers, or take it from tax dollars. If you don't think this is happening, you are just plain ignorant. You also seem to have difficulty with the concept of illegal vs. legal immigrants.
That a keen insight. I haven't heard that 10-20 thousand times before. It is also very relevent to the debate as to whether or not its a good thing to have millions of illegale pouring into California.
A COUNTRY FOUNDED BY IMMIGRANTS IS NOT THE SAME AS ONE BEING INVADED BY ILLEGALS.
WHO WILL STOP THE INVASION FROM THE SOUTH? WE ARE LOUSING OUR LANGUAGE, OUR CULTURE, OUR SOVEREIGNTY. ONLY A LOONY MARXIST LIBERAL WOULD SAY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATIONS IS OK.
1.) European immigrants came here in a more-or- less semi-orderly and completely LEGAL process through controlled ports of entry. Ever heard of Ellis Island? Yes, they were coming from backward regions, however at the time, America was horse-drawn agricultural economy. My maternal grandfather came to Maine legally in 1905, after serving King and country, and ran a livery stable. Becoming a citizen, he could not vote in Maine until 1914, after he demonstrated literacy in English. This cannot compare with the present situation vis-a-vis illegal resident aliens, or even legal immigrants.
2.) Since you discuss Italian and Irish immigration, look at the numbers: 6 Million and 3 Million, over a 100-year period. The numbers of legal European immigrants are simply dwarfed by the numbers of illegals who have poured in since the late 1960's. And as bvackward as those immigrants may have been, they had valid names, valid passports, went through health inspections, and were integrated slowly into OUR system.
3.) Your humanitarian outlook is commendable, as is your stance against anti-hispanic racism. No rational person blames an illegal alien for leaving the hellhole that is Mexico. However, no rational person can condone the massive invasion of this country by illegal means, either. A sane American government would stem this hispanic tide by fostering development in Latin America, not by giving this country up to illegal immigration. Look at it in microcosm: invite all the unfortunates in your town to dine at your table and live in your house. You won't have that house for long, even if you put them to work.
4.)Whatever Pat Buchanan is, and he may well be a bigot, he's no idiot. Which is what anyone who cannot see what illegal immigration has done to California might be. Go look at Watts or Compton. The people living there are Americans, who have in many cases, been frozen out of employment in California. Why? Among other reasons, they don't speak Spanish.
As a native Californian, with 20 years of experience working in the Healthcare System, I must disagree. Not only are the majority of patients at many metropolitan hospitals monolingual, the forms must be printed multilingually. Interpreters must be hired. Instead of the best person for the job being hired, the person who speaks Spanish the best is hired.
The most popular names for the past sevaral years here in Santa Barbara County are "Juan" and "Maria". Not only are Mexicans more likely to have their children on the dole, they have more of them.
At my children's school, the entire group of kids who receive "free lunch" are Mexicans. Mexicans are the only people living in this county who can qualify because a family needs to make around $25,000 per year or less to qualify. No one can live in Santa Barbara, or most cities in California, for $25,000 a year. How do they do it? By being paid under the table, working for cash.
He rails mostly on illegal aliens.... you know, criminal leeches. They need to be deported, one and all.
Boy he talks about halting immigration from the 'third world'. Excuse me?
Immigration is a privilege, not a right. It's destructive to take on the worst the Third World has to offer, don't you think? High standards and striuct limits on immigration should be the norm.... not the case since Bubba was elected. Unfortunately the lunacy continues.
ALL AMERICANS are immigrants.
That's an absurd statement. 90% of Americans were born here. We are not 'immigrants'.
He is so classic in blaming the ills of a place on immigration.
Look at California.... packed with illegal aliens and on the verge of collapse. Blaming the messenger is not a good way to attack the problem. Putting the military on the borders, deporting millions of sponging illegals, and getting rid of this latest batch of smarmy, lying, constitution-violating, vote pandering, sell-out politicians is, however. Don't blame Buchanan. He's right.
I am not an imigrant, neither was my father, grand father, great grand father, or great great grand father. There is certainly more here now than the deer and the antelope. There is what native Americans built through generations, and we resent a corrupt government that puts everything we are, have built, and enacted, up for grabs to any marxist that strolls across our open borders.
We have a duty and obligation to the Constitution of the United States, not to allow it to perish under an onslaught of third world racist ignorance that hates all things of european extraction and continues to vote their bellies.
"Please... it's a myth that illegals are crumbling our health care when it's really man Americans on welfare and also being fat and unhealthy that is straining our resources."
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Nope....it's not a myth. It is a fact. Illegal aliens and their sometimes legal offspring..( which is another can of worms... :) are causing unparalleled huge monetary strains on too many counties and cities health-care infrastructures.
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Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Demonizing the opposition is a very common liberal tactic. Is the liberal LA Times bigoted? Try reading the below article.
Please... it's a myth that illegals are crumbling our health care when it's really man Americans on welfare and also being fat and unhealthy that is straining our resources.
Again, even the LA Times disagrees with this ludicrous statement. See below:
Undermining American workers:(Illegal Immigrants Are Pulling Wages Down - Pushing Taxes Higher)