Posted on 03/20/2013 9:42:05 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
Angelica Velazquillo's fight for mental health care for undocumented immigrants began not in a hospital room but in a busy downtown Charlotte intersection.
In September 2011, Velazquillo, then a 25-year-old undocumented woman brought to the U.S. when she was 4, joined nine protesters who blocked traffic, chanting "undocumented and unafraid." Charlotte police arrested the group, charging them with impeding traffic and disorderly conduct, offenses that sparked their deportation proceedings.
Their deportations were later dropped and they were ordered to perform community service, a decision the group credited to the public interest in their case.
"It was a turning point," she says today. "We were taking more of a stance in what was happening. I realized this is continually going to happen until we share our stories."
Velazquillo is a master's student in social work at the University of Chicago. She also founded UndocuHealth, a blog that tells the stories of undocumented youth who have been spurned by the U.S. mental health system.
North Carolina may be the next front in Velazquillo's battle. When Cardinal Innovations, formerly known as Piedmont Behavioral Healthcare, quietly assumed local management of public mental health services in Orange and Chatham counties last April, they brought with them a policy to deny Medicaid reimbursements for the treatment of undocumented immigrants.
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Cry me a river!! Illegal aliens now demand better mental health services...well, guess what...welcome to the USA, fools!
My ‘lady’ doctor was telling me they recently moved to my area. His wife has ‘mental health’ issues and he’s been trying for months to get her into a shrink with NO LUCK!! That entire system is a mess! Our soldiers with PTSD can’t get help! But the illegal...he don’t care if US citizens get squat, he wants his and he wants it NOW!
Anyone who wants to give this bunch of entitlement seekers legality is STUPID!
Another of the unintended costs, in billions, as a result if Rand Paul’s Amnesty plan in implemented.
“undocumented and unafraid.”
Thus proving the utter chaos created by refusal to enforce the law. ( And the undocumented community, beset by fears of being deported,the illegals made it clear “undocumented and unafraid.”
Let's play "Spot the Omission."
“undocumented immigrants”
Call them what they are: ILLEGAL ALIENS AKA Crimigrants.
I really do not give a smelly sceptic Obama.
I keep wondering what it is about liberals that they cannot understand the simple phrase “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT”.
Perhaps they’ll understand the phrase “guillotine” following Revolution II.
“”undocumented and unafraid.””
That reminds me of something...an article that pointed out at CPAC that it appears the service people were largely aliens. Hiding in the shadows, my butt. Even the ACU won’t hire Americans!
[snip]”NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Spanish-speaking wait staff hustled around the Conservative Political Action Conference ballroom Thursday evening, laying out cups and silverware with such precision and speed the room echoed with the sound of clinking wine glasses, rolling food carts and pounding plates.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/03/go-for-short-listwho-has-not-sold-out.html
“Call them what they are: ILLEGAL ALIENS AKA Crimigrants.”
You’re too kind.
They are criminals.
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Any chance she’ll get so angry that she goes back to her own country?
“They are criminals.”
In this upside down world criminals are considered victims.
As far as I’m concerned, blanket amnesty is no amnesty at all. Its an elimination of federal law through unconstitutional means.
True amnesty is what you give to a deserving individual in return for doing the right thing or helping to end something worse.
Major FAIL!
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