Do what?
Imagine the mountain of $7 to $9 trillion in debt.
Guess I'll go back to watching TV and feeling comfortable numb.
(I'm really going into the office.)
Posted on 03/13/2005 8:40:59 AM PST by hope
Sunday, March 13, 2005
INVASION USA
Illegal aliens threaten
U.S. medical system
Docs journal reports hospitals being closed, previously vanquished diseases being spread
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:
The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons report includes a strong prescription for protecting the health of Americans:
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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."
OUTRAGEOUS!! Ridiculous, Maddening, Sickening!
>>Anyone who is willing to exempt current illegals from the law should also be willing to exempt every other criminal from their crimes.<<
yep. for example there are currently many in prison on charges of tax evasion. some, because they claim it is against their religion to give any of their earnings to a anti-God socialist gvt that practices redistribution of wealth. i would say they have as much a "right" to be exempted for their crimes. but then prisons make money.... regardless of the propaganda saying otherwise.. there are some who milk that system too. and we pay... and pay... for it all.
IMHO, we need a third party.
Old news too some of us.
ps... thought i better make clear - i'm not promoting tax evasion.. : )
just showing an example of giving a certain law breaking group the "OK" to carry on .... no consequences, or even "rewarding" the illegal behavior. who else would we do this for? (well... poluticians and other publik servants who break their oath maybe)... but who else?
Do what?
Imagine the mountain of $7 to $9 trillion in debt.
Guess I'll go back to watching TV and feeling comfortable numb.
(I'm really going into the office.)
i have always had my own garden.... grew up in a farm family that canned and froze all our food for the winter. we didn't have tv either. so i raised my kids that way too... now they thank me and they are good conservative productive young citizens. another thing that is great is a family milk cow. even though the kids have moved out - i still have my milk cow. i cannot stand spending that much for cream and butter. : )
it's easy. and cheap. my cow raises 12 calves in 9 months plus i milk her.
but then, i'm a real hill billy chick... not many left like that most likely. i also don't like buying food others have handled.... haha! it's true... my mother was a cean freak about food and i never got over it.
They are laughing at us behind our backs...
OUTRAGEOUS!! Ridiculous, Maddening, Sickening!
sw
Well, at least we have our cheap lettuce."
Lol...now that you've put it that way...
Small price to pay for a Wendy's .99 cent salad, don't you think?
Btw, there was a poster yesterday who presumed heads of lettuce would cost upwards of $10.00 bucks per head -- WITHOUT illegals picking it.
Worth mentioning OVER AND OVER.
Does everyone want to know why our insurance premiums are $13,000 a year? Why our new car insurance is another $2,000 per year? Why our tax money is going to Uninvited Illegal Foreigners?
Somebody ask our feckless President and legislators.
They are guilty of aiding and abetting MASSIVE FRAUD upon its citizenry.
That's a scary article; it's made me more than ever convinced that we have to do something about our borders.
I don't want to see sick people who are already here, even illegally, go without health care if they are truly in need, but this is not fair to Americans who are paying into the system either.
We are not surprised at the content of this article. The US is being overwhelmed...well, positive reinforcement means more and more illegals head north. They'd be stupid to stay home, especially when their govt. encourages them to leave and oh, yes, reminds them to send money home asap. Nine billion per year, last time Mexico counted up the remittance checks.
This article makes me so sick I cannot even respond.... oops
heck, someone posted 20$ a head in about four posts later... you could call that hyper-bowl.
ha ha
How very true!
If Sandy "The Pants" Burger doesn't get prosecuted for stealing those documents, then we'll know the two party system is a sham.
But then I have strong suspicions anyway.
As Bush has been President since 2001, there comes a point when it's no longer "someone else's mess."
Yep, the old two card monte.
You minority you.
People dont believe me when I tell them whites in LA are now down to the low 30% mark of the population. Might have dropped to the twenties by now.
I should have been more diplomatic. I suppose the point is that we on the right, who are are constantly criticisizing the left for their inability to 'get over it' whether it be the 2004 election, Iraq, etc., should take our own advice and 'get over it' on this issue.
It's over and done with - anyone investing even an iota of emotion is wasting their time no differently than bitter libs who can't get over their losses. I'm neither disgusted, appalled, or shocked. I simply don't care and have made appropriate plans to benefit from the continuing growth of illegal immigration.
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