Posted on 03/26/2006 4:39:05 PM PST by John Filson
I moved to a suburb of LA in the early '70s. It was still Paradise then. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Now, once again, I think I've died, but this time I'm in "the other place." Paradise to Hell in 30 years.
The value of ethnic diversity for the sake of multiculturalism is pounded so deeply into the minds of our politicians that they've become scared, running dogs.
BUMP to a sad (and shared) reality.
I escaped there in 1992 and never looked back.
I think we shouldn't turn our backs on California, however. We should continue to fight for it. It's not theirs to take from us by overwhelming force.
http://www.saveourstate.org/topics/societalcosts.html
Costs Incurred by Society
Illegal Aliens and EMTALA
NewsWithViews.com, March 23, 2005
Free medical care has degraded and closed some of America’s finest emergency medical facilities and caused hospital bankruptcies: 84 California hospital are closing their doors forever. Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), any patient requesting emergency care must be screened and treated until stabilized for discharge or transfer, whether or not insured or “documented” (i.e., legally present in the United States). For example, a woman in labor must remain to deliver her child. Babies born to illegal aliens are called “Anchor Babies” for once they are born, like anchors dropped to keep boats safely in harbor, they pull their illegal alien parents and siblings into lucrative residency. The babies instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits, resulting in skyrocketing Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income. Cities such as Los Angeles with large illegal alien populations, high crime, and powerful immigrant gangs are losing their hospitals to the ravages of unreimbursed care under EMTALA. In Los Angeles, 95% of outstanding homicide warrants are for illegal aliens, likewise for 66% of fugitive felony warrants.
L.A. Emergency Rooms Full of Illegal Immigrants
Fox News, March 18, 2005
Los Angeles County’s emergency rooms are overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration. Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens, and more than half are here illegally. With about 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County alone, patients in the County’s overcrowded emergency rooms can wait days for a hospital bed for necessary surgeries. In 2004, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured – roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer – while illegal immigrants receive medical treatment for free.
"Start building the fence."
What for? They are all here already. How 'bout building busses and trains to send them back?
When you got 30 million "unlegal,unlawful and/or undocumented" anythings in your front yard, the last thing you should be doing is building border fences.
Hell, you don't have enough toilet paper for starters!
Maybe the next thing is: we have our heads examined for allowing our leaders to let this happen to us. Or we demand that they do something to fix this mess! Don't vote 'em out of office! Hold 'em responsible!
And we should'nt put up with "Patty Cake" either. Damn it! We deserve real solutions and nothing less than that!
Border States Grapple With Alien Criminals
Fox News, March 17, 2005
Many police officials are fed up with the number of illegal aliens populating American prisons, many of them incarcerated for violent crimes such as murder, rape and robbery. Criminal aliens, who by law should be deported, are instead incarcerated in the U.S. Because of federal bureaucracy and an overburdened system, only the most dangerous felons are actually sent home. Statistics tell the story: About 60 percent of deportation orders are ignored. In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants and 60 percent of outstanding felony warrants are for illegal aliens. American taxpayers are paying for the crimes of the 8,000 convicted aliens not yet caught and the incarceration costs of those who have been, estimated to add up to more than $1 billion a year — in just the states that border Mexico.
Mexico, U.S. ignore illegal immigration
Los Angeles Daily News, December 25, 2004
Over 28,000 foreigners in detained in California prisons, costing taxpayers a staggering $500 million to $800 million a year. One-half of these prisoners are illegal aliens from Mexico. Nevertheless, in the state capital in Sacramento, it rare to hear the term "illegal aliens." In an example of what George Orwell called newspeak, California politicians believe that if they don't publicly name this contributing cause of the State’s ongoing fiscal crisis, it will vanish. According to the California Board of Prison Terms, "all other nations accept all of their prisoners for transfer" – except Mexico. Our biased media hates placing even a smidgen of blame on Mexico for illegal immigration. But in fact, most solutions won't be found in Sacramento or Washington. The lasting fixes must come from Mexico's legislature, courts and President Vicente Fox.
You are right. It's not just a California issue. It is now nationwide, in our oun neighborhoods.. The time is now (and overdue) to take back our country.
I am sure glad this is only happening in LA.
"Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens.."
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Isn't it beautiful? What a crap hole it has turned into, thanks to the dysfunctional goverment in Washington that continues to pander to over 10 MILLION illegals with every tax dollar they can steal from us.
Be of good cheer.
They cannot whitewash this. It is too big and there are lots of pictures of nice hispanic faces and green flags. Drudge's headline is in Spanish. It is just wonderful. They have pissed all over themselves. :)
They shouldn't. I have certainly bombarded my two Senators and Congressman with my feelings. The problem is, there is no organized opposition that I know of.
Wouldn't Mexico's economy improve if its govt. stopped being so anti-foreigner? Here's a potentially astonishing related thread which details how FLAGRANTLY anti-gringo Mexico's immigration laws are compared to our own:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1602610/posts
Can you believe it? Why doesn't the media cover this information (yet)? That would set the race-baiters still in their tracks! Couldn't we stop the amnesty juggernaut if we figured out how to expose how racist MEXICO's own immigration laws are, maybe through a massive letters to the editor campaign and calls to talk show hosts and our politicians?
And I guess you disagree with the rest of my post!
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