Illegal Aliens Threanten U.S. medical system: reports hospitals being closed diseases spread

World Net Daily ^ | 3-13-05

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Sunday, March 13, 2005

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INVASION USA
Illegal aliens threaten
U.S. medical system
Docs journal reports hospitals being closed, previously vanquished diseases being spread

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Posted: March 13, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Cristobal Silverio emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker.

He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 – all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" – an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.

But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child, Cristian.

The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit, they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies."

While President Bush says the U.S. needs more "cheap labor" from south of the border to do jobs Americans aren't willing to do, the case of the Silverios shows there are indeed uncalculated costs involved in the importation of such labor – public support and uninsured medical costs.

In fact, the increasing number of illegal aliens coming into the United States is forcing the closure of hospitals, spreading previously vanquished diseases and threatening to destroy America's prized health-care system, says a report in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

"The influx of illegal aliens has serious hidden medical consequences," writes Madeleine Pelner Cosman, author of the report. "We judge reality primarily by what we see. But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly than what is seen."

According to her study, 84 California hospitals are closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens and their non-reimbursed tax on the system.

"Anchor babies," the author writes, "born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income."

In addition, the report says, "many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease."

While politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this country, the report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent.

Not being insured does not mean they don't get medical care.

Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985, hospitals are obligated to treat the uninsured without reimbursement.

"Government imposes viciously stiff fines and penalties on any physician and any hospital refusing to treat any patient that a zealous prosecutor deems an emergency patient, even though the hospital or physician screened and declared the patient's illness or injury non-emergency," says the report. "But government pays neither hospital nor physician for treatments. In addition to the fiscal attack on medical facilities and personnel, EMTALA is a handy truncheon with which to pummel politically unpopular physicians by falsely accusing them of violating EMTALA."

According to the report, between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services became unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals verge on closure, the author writes.

"American hospitals welcome 'anchor babies,'" says the report. "Illegal alien women come to the hospital in labor and drop their little anchors, each of whom pulls its illegal alien mother, father, and siblings into permanent residency simply by being born within our borders. Anchor babies are citizens, and instantly qualify for public welfare aid: Between 300,000 and 350,000 anchor babies annually become citizens because of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."

Among the organizations directing illegal aliens into America's medical systems, according to the report, are the Ford Foundation-funded Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice, and Pro Bono, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the National Council of La Raza, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Migration Policy Institute, the National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Because drug addiction and alcoholism are classified as diseases and disabilities, the fiscal toll on the health-care system rises.

When Linda Torres was arrested in Bakersfield, Calif., with about $8,500 in small bills in a sack, the police originally thought it was stolen money, explained the report. It was her Social Security lump sum for her disability -- heroin addiction.

"Today, legal immigrants must demonstrate that they are free of communicable diseases and drug addiction to qualify for lawful permanent residency green cards," writes Cosman, a medical lawyer, who formerly taught medical students at the City University of New York. "Illegal aliens simply cross our borders medically unexamined, hiding in their bodies any number of communicable diseases."

Many illegals entering this country have tuberculosis, according to the report.

"That disease had largely disappeared from America, thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful modern drugs such as isoniazid and rifampin," says the report. "TB's swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60 percent of those infected because of new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico. This Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major anti-tubercular drugs. Ordinary TB usually is cured in six months with four drugs that cost about $2,000. MDR-TB takes 24 months with many expensive drugs that cost around $250,000 with toxic side effects. Each illegal with MDR-TB coughs and infects 10 to 30 people, who will not show symptoms immediately. Latent disease explodes later.

TB was virtually absent in Virginia until in 2002, when it spiked a 17 percent increase, but Prince William County, just south of Washington, D.C., had a much larger rise of 188 percent. Public health officials blamed immigrants. In 2001 the Indiana School of Medicine studied an outbreak of MDR-TB, and traced it to Mexican illegal aliens. The Queens, New York, health department attributed 81 percent of new TB cases in 2001 to immigrants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ascribed 42 percent of all new TB cases to 'foreign born' people who have up to eight times higher incidences apparently, 66 percent of all TB cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam."

Other health threats from illegals include, according to the report:

• Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis or "kissing bug disease," is transmitted by the reduviid bug, which prefers to bite the lips and face. The protozoan parasite that it carries, Trypanosoma cruzi, infects 18 million people annually in Latin America and causes 50,000 deaths. The disease also infiltrates America's blood supply. Chagas affects blood transfusions and transplanted organs. No cure exists. Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected.
• Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy now is endemic to northeastern states because illegal aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico.
• Dengue fever is exceptionally rare in America, though common in Ecuador, Peru, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Mexico. Recently, according to the report, there was a virulent outbreak of dengue fever in Webb County, Texas, which borders Mexico. Though dengue is usually not a fatal disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever routinely kills.
• Polio was eradicated from America, but now reappears in illegal immigrants as do intestinal parasites, says the report.
• Malaria was obliterated, but now is re-emerging in Texas.

The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons report includes a strong prescription for protecting the health of Americans:

• Closing America's borders with fences, high-tech security devices and troops.
• Rescinding the U.S. citizenship of "anchor babies."
• Punishing the aiding and abetting of illegal aliens as a crime.
• An end to amnesty programs.

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[sheana]

the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."

The key words are "...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof..."
The Constitution did NOT create anchor babies, the courts did.
That line could also be interpreted just the opposite of the way the liberal courts interpreted it. In other words, if they are here illegally they have no rights.

[TomGuy]

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[.38sw]

Yes, they are. I suspect that hospitals like the one I took my mom to in Walnut Creek are doing better, since WC is not a big city, it's suburban. Although we do have illegals (oh, excuse me, entrants, as the term I'm seeing lately) here, they're not so overwhelming as in the larger cities.

[texastoo]

The docs have this one exactly right.

The docs need to add one more. It should be against the law for an illegal alien to sue doctors and nurses. All of this shold come under the good samaritan act.

[prairiebreeze]

ping

[Mulder]

Send the Mexican gov't a bill for all this.

If they don't pay (in gold-- no fiat paper), we invade and take an equivalent amount of their land.

[Ramonan]

DUHH!!
We here in Southern California knew this 8-10 years ago.

A Truth I learned: Statistics do not mean anything until you are one.

[jocon307]

"Once educated, they are immediately contacted and forced to leave."

And do our fearless leaders also make it a point to throw out University Grads from the Muslim countries?

The Ecuadorians we are seeing in Jersey City are absolutely hillbillies. Many seem to have never seen an elevator before. No, I am not kidding. It certainly seems like some one is bringing them in en masse, because it is hard to imagine they've gotten here on their own. And they've got plenty of children in tow. Very cute and all that, but why are they here?

[spectre]

Read this and weep.

"Gov. Mike Huckabee states that Arkansas citizens are not subsidizing illegals, a falsehood. The editorial states "it's un-Christian not to pay prenatal care and birthing for illegals." These are anchor babies, whose illegal parents can't be deported and, when reaching 18, can implement "chain migration," bringing into our country all their kin.

The governor, demanding scholarships and in-state tuition for illegals, increases the magnet — a felony under the Federal Immigration Nationality Act. Those engaged in nefarious activities have no legal/logical standing; hence they employ racial slurs, i.e., racist, xenophobe, anti-Semite, bigoted, disallowing debate.

The writer parrots Huckabee, stating SB 206 is "race-baiting," "demagoguery", "inflammatory," "drinking Jesus juice." Is this the conduct expected of a "conservative Christian" — Huckabee?

The governor's meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox in October 2003 gives all indications the governor is expanding the Arkansas illegal magnet."

I could just throw up.

sw

[sheana]

They did this in Calif. many yrs ago. Read what Tom McClintock has to say about it in his column "Subsidizing Illegal Immigration". He even wrote a bill to reverse it and he got no votes....not Republicans or Democrats.

http://www.tommcclintock.com/columns.htm

[monkeywrench]

"Once educated, they are immediately contacted and forced to leave." "

Sounds like a deal someone at the State dept. made with the chicom govt. I imagine they want those educated students back very much.

[CindyDawg]

Well, if we keep them home then we don't have a problem. IMO welfare should be eliminated. No benefits. Make um all made. American and Mexican. These women aren't going to have staving , sick families. These days of on welfare with the daddy unoffically at home, free food and fast track ER care would be over. They would do what they used to. Families would help. They would go to foodbanks and county clinics. Mexican mommas would stay home if nothing to keep them here.

[Major_Risktaker]

Cristobal Silverio emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker.

Solution: Grow your own food again.

As a kid half the families in my community had family gardens some with a greenhouses on the back lot.

One solution is to grow are own food again then Safeway would have to buy less from Corporate Farms thus not needing Cristobal Silverio the "Picker" man.

Welcome To Easy Greenhouse.com

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Grow your own food or have Cristobal Silverio
do for us while we watch TV?

Hmmmmm................What will you watch today?

Dear Dante3

In the long run the invasion by illegal aliens, along with crazy spending, will bankrupt this country.

Then what will happen to us as a nation?

[RockyMtnMan]

It's amazing how far away from reality we get when profit is the only motivation for our actions. Illegals represent a huge cost savings for corporations at the tax payers expense.

There is not a chance in hell the cost savings I or anyone else achieves by buying products produced by illegal immigrant labor equals the tax we must pay collectively. One heart surgery for any illegal equals more than I or most American's pay in a year in taxes. One appendectomy is around $10,000, that is more than a vast majority of Americans pay in taxes.

If we are going to subsidize corporations with cheap labor it needs to be done in an above board way that is visible for all to see. This under the table dealing between government and business should strike every American as a serious problem and a threat to "of the people, by the people, for the people".

There is nothing wrong with legally controlled immigration based on limits set by our legislators because that is the will of the people. Anyone who is willing to exempt current illegals from the law should also be willing to exempt every other criminal from their crimes.

To let the government turn a blind eye to illegal immigration is to legitimize the governments view of morality and it's ability to dictate it to the people.

[From many - one.]

How about a right of citizenship when they are 18, but not until then?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

In the "new" America of the future, the liberal polititions who enabled the nation's collapse will be forced to work the fields alongside the lawyers and indigents.

[hosepipe]

Worse illegals are proto-democrats.. or democrats in the molting stage..
That is the maggots have not voted ALREADY... some of them..

[tertiary01]

It's gone way past the point of being able to fix the problem now.

Come On!! If our forefathers had this lack of vision we would be paying taxes to the Queen. The motivation is still continuing to build up.

[lemura]

I find the shock and surprise of many of these responses almost pathetic (no personal insult intended). Perhaps I'm just being jaded - after all, this is all very old news in Calif. The bottom line is that it's a waste of time to fight - there's too much money and political power at stake to change the status quo - from both sides of the political spectrum.

The best thing one can do is position themselves to take advantage of the situation. Make sure you own a house in a good area - the concentration of families moving into 'safe zones' has been instrumental in pushing up real estate prices in certain parts of SoCal (like coastal OC).

You're going to need the increased equity value to finance the increasingly private education/police/health requirements that used to be covered by taxes and gov't services. We're not just heading to a divided society - we're already there. Just make sure you're on the right side.

[moehoward]

Bumperoo.