Welcome to “The Levin Lounge”… Step in and have a FRink.
Will we hear. . .
Posted on 05/17/2007 2:40:25 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Welcome to “The Levin Lounge”… Step in and have a FRink.
Will we hear. . .
Take out your wallet, empty it, and bend over!!!
Hi, Cheap.
Yikes!
Oh lordy...where will it end?
I’m with you Alice.
It’s the Mark Levin show, not the Bill “I did not have sex with that women” Clinton show.
Did any of us expect anything less from a leftist congress?
In Mexico, The Job Corps is called Arizona.
hi!
We’re being gang raped.
North County Times (San Diego)
(Medical is welfare medical care at tax payers expense in Calif)
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Last modified Monday, January 8, 2007 3:11 PM PST
Report: 40 percent of county’s Medi-Cal births to illegal immigrants
By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer
NORTH COUNTY —— A state report quietly released last spring shows illegal immigrants made up the largest single group of those giving birth at taxpayer expense in the state and in San Diego County in 2004.
The May report, “Medi-Cal Funded Deliveries,” states that of the 14,350 taxpayer-funded births in the county that year, 5,814, or 40.5 percent, were to illegal immigrants. That is an 18 percent increase over the 4,916 Medi-Cal-funded deliveries to illegal immigrants in San Diego County in 2001, as shown in an earlier state report.
On Friday morning, Vista resident Silvia stopped to talk with a visitor as she headed into the Vista Community Clinic with her 1-year-old son in her arms and her 4-year-old son in tow. The 24-year-old woman said in Spanish that she is an illegal immigrant and has lived in the United States for 10 years. She spoke on the condition that her last name not be published.
Silvia, a native of Oaxaca, Mexico, said Medi-Cal paid labor and delivery costs for both of her children....
A few minutes later, a woman named Maria was leaving the clinic with her 6-year-old son and 5-month-old daughter. The 27-year-old native of San Luis, Mexico, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she is a single mom ..
She said she has lived in the U.S. for 13 years and is an illegal immigrant. Medi-Cal paid the delivery costs for her children, Maria said, adding that she is grateful for the help.......
Statewide in 2004, providers delivered 248,086 babies at taxpayers’ expense, according to the report. Of those, 105,665, or 42.6 percent, were to illegal immigrants. That’s a 13.5 percent increase over the 93,094 Medi-Cal-funded deliveries to illegal immigrants in the state in 2001, as shown in the earlier report.
At an average cost of $3,224 each for 74,835 vaginal deliveries and $5,153 each for 30,830 Cesarean deliveries in 2004, the total cost to taxpayers ran more than $400 million. Of that total, about $22 million was for births in San Diego County.
The amounts included doctors’ fees and, in many cases, pre- and postnatal care.
Despite the cost, a local doctor says the money is a necessary investment.
Bernard Wosk, a physician at the nonprofit Vista Community Clinic, immigrated to the U.S. from his native Nicaragua 20 years ago. He said he has prenatal patients who are illegal immigrants.
Wosk said he understands that laws are necessary to stop illegal immigration.
San Diego County’s 5,814 births to illegal immigrants in 2004 placed it third in the rankings of the 58 counties in the state. Topping the list was Los Angeles County, with 41,240, followed by Orange County, with 10,979 births to illegal immigrant mothers.
‘Birthright citizenship’
According to the 14th 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 of the state wherein they reside.”
But the U.S. Supreme Court has never categorically ruled that children of illegal immigrants are entitled to so-called birthright citizenship.
Over the years, Congressman Brian Bilbray, who previously represented the 49th Congressional District and now represents the 50th District, has co-sponsored several bills that aimed to end “birthright citizenship” to children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents. None of the bills passed. Most recently, Bilbray co-sponsored HR 698, the Citizenship Reform Act of 2005, which died before Congress could discuss it.
In an interview Wednesday from Washington, Bilbray said he is planning to introduce the bill in the current legislative year.
“This is an absolutely absurd situation that no reasonable nation should allow to continue,” Bilbray said. “The federal government is the biggest deadbeat dad in the country because they have walked away from this baby that is their responsibility.”
Asked what he thinks should be done when an illegal immigrant woman walks into an emergency room and is ready to deliver a baby and has no money, Bilbray said, “At least you don’t write a welfare check for her after she delivers.
“They not only get free birth, they get aid for dependent children,” he said. “When you start giving one benefit based on someone breaking the law, it leads to another benefit, then another benefit.”
Bilbray said that many of the illegal immigrants who are recent arrivals to the United States have a much higher rate of complications when giving birth because of poor nutrition.
re: There must be some SERIOUS BUCKS getting passed around in D.C. over this thing.
We need to find out where it’s coming from.
Also, did you see my link on the Somalis (I think there were 60), that walked off the job cause they couldn’t have prayer time... At Swift (yep, remember the raid).
Frankly, the immigration bill is far more important than the annual budget bill, which has very little discretionary funding in it once you take out the entitlement programs and the costs of servicing the national debt. The very fate of our country is tied into the immigration bill. If it passes, we are finished as a nation, as least as we know it.
Yhello!
I just sent an email to a friend saying the exact same thing...
When my son went to war I supported the president, when it didn’t turn out the pre-war intel was accurate, I supported him. I briefly was disillusioned during the Harriet Meiers mess- but Altio and Roberts brought me back.Throughout all the hate from the left I stuck with him
No more. I’m done.
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