Posted on 05/16/2004 6:59:18 AM PDT by LNewman
I camped outside Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's house in Huntington Beach the other day to make sure no illegal immigrants showed up to mow the lawn.
It wouldn't have been good timing for the congressman if they did. A vote is due this week in Washington on a bill by Rohrabacher that would require doctors and nurses to report suspected illegals for deportation.
Why should MDs do the dirty work? Seems to me that if Rohrabacher really wants to drive out illegal immigrants, he should have introduced a bill imposing fines on neighbors who hire undocumented gardeners. I saw lots of trimming and leaf-blowing as I approached his house.
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The difference is that when you report an abuse case, someone does something about it.
Well, they must be doing the jobs that Americans won't do, then.
They don't seem to have problems complying with other laws that tend to line their pockets.
When you report a gunshot wound or a stabbing, the police come right away, make an investigation, and often make an arrest.
When you document DUI, the perp gets arrested right on the spot.
When you report (or, I should say, try to report) an illegal alien, not only does nothing happen to the criminal, but you get in trouble with your emplotyer if you work for a hospital and may be attacked by the perp or his many friends and relatives.
Have you ever tried "reporting" an illegal alien?
Did anything happen (of a constructive nature)?
Didn't think so.
"As citizens it is our duty to report criminal activity when we see it."
Yes, well, there is another point that would need to be addressed first. Even if I know some person or another is here illegally, it is very unlikely that our immigration department is going to take any action against them.
These people turn up all the time, lately there has been a lot of people in the newspaper who are squabbling about tuition for college, because they are illegal. Any two bit Barney Fife of an immigration agent could easily ascertain their address and go arrest and deport them. But they don't. Am I going to dial the cops when I see some one littering, despicable though I find that, and I do. No, because the cops aren't going to respond to that.
If the feds aren't going to enforce immigration law, what's the point of anyone else trying to do so? The State of New Jersey, the municipality of Bayonne, Jocon307, none of US can deport people.
Frank Sharry is a typical anti-American who would sell out his own country to make a quick buck off of illegal immigration.
The logic is implicit. Breaking the law is violence and the victim is the American people. You seem to think that this is violence in some abstract sense. These abuses will eventually work their way through the system and eventually someone will really be hurt ( denied care, access to care, etc.). I don't think this is apples and oranges.
If enough citizens begin taking action, you don't think that would get the feds off their lazy/politically correct asses??
My son spent 3 months in a NICU in northern California. About 40% of the other children were Mexican (I don't use the silly "hispanic" label because it's something invented in the U.S.; people in Latin America refer to nationalities, so I do too). Of those children I would guess half had no insurance at all (their parents spoke only Spanish). Not to worry. The hospital employs a full time social worker who makes sure that every avenue of tax payer assistance is pursued (we kept getting calls from government agencies, always staffed by Mexican females, asking us when would we be filling out the assistance forms. They were taken aback when I said "thanks, but we have insurance and enough money to pay our deductibles").
I once went to the billing office of this hospital to get some information. They keep a full time spanish speaker at the office. While I was there, a Mexican couple was having an animated conversation with her -- they laughed when they gave their address as being in the "Estados Unidos". They were clearly in the country illegally. The forms for assistance that were available there and in the hospital itself went to great pains to point out that "immigration status" is not required for the majority of programs. They know that because there is an entire apparatus set up to make sure they know it.
"If enough citizens begin taking action, you don't think that would get the feds off their lazy/politically correct asses??"
By just reporting illegals? Possibly, but doubtful. By demanding enforcement, more likely, and I expect this will happen.
I would recommend the same action I recommend against Muslims: don't hire them, don't buy from them, don't rent to them, don't sell them real estate.
Obviously, if not enough people are willing to do these things, esp. regarding illegals, they will continue to find a home here.
Doctors aren't social workers either, so why do they have to do the dirty work of reporting suspected child abuse? What an idiotic argument.
What is wrong with law enforcement personnel enforcing the law? Is this too radical a solution? It would seem to end the pro and con arguments on this thread.
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Because they're owned by corporate titans and wealthy Americans who want cheap labor, Rohrabacher said.
Those "owned" politicians better pay attention to what happens in the coming Republican primaries. Chris Cannon, the most open borders proponent in Congress may lose his job over this issue. And he's not the only one, there are others as well. Spencer Abraham lost his in 2000. People are fed up and all the corporate money in the world isn't going to save them at the ballot box.
Just curious, what exactly would you have the government do?
Deport illegal aliens and do everything practical to prevent illegal aliens from entering the country.
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That's the last thing on the government's mind. As far as illegal aliens go it's olly olly oxen free.
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