Caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican food as fit 'for pigs' expects free U.S. health care
The migrant caravan making its way to the U.S. in a bid to cut the line ahead of legal immigrants has revealed quite a few instances of chutzpah and ingratitude, in part because its participants aren't really the mere moms and kids fleeing violence that their organizers say they are.
The instance that stands out is the one of a rather well-fed-looking Honduran woman named Miriam Celaya holding up a plate of tortillas and beans donated by the Mexicans, screwing up her nose disdainfully at the plate that looks as though it actually had fingers dragged through it, and explaining to a Deutsche Welle interviewer that it was food "for pigs."
Now, the food was donated food by the Mexicans, whose government is spending $26,000 a day on housing and feeding the migrants and it represents the normal cuisine of the country. When you go to Mexico, tortillas and beans are what you eat. It's something everyone eats, too. War story: Back when I was a reporter for Forbes magazine, doing the Mexican billionaire's list, I had breakfast with Mexican billionaire Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala, who owns much of the Corona beer fortune. What did she order at the restaurant we met at? Kid you not, tortillas and beans.
If the Honduran migrant here can't handle tortillas and beans without dragging her fingers through the plate and calling it pig food, how is she going to handle American food? There's kind of an assimilation deficit.
More importantly, there's a gratitude deficit. And that was obvious enough to the Mexicans, who obviously see beggars who insist on being choosers. It's not just bad character we are seeing - it's actually proof that the migrants, with their new logo-festooned clothes and expensive strollers, aren't really all that poor at all: like most migrants, they are members of their country's lower middle classes, well fed to the point of being overweight as many are and accustomed to certain things. Tijuanans protested these migrants over the weekend, in part because of the ingratitude showed for the imposition thrown at them. At the protest Sunday, they actually did chants shouting their favor of tortillas and beans based on widespread outrage at the video.
Knowing her remarks were making the caravan migrants unpopular in Tijuana, Celaya, or someone making Celaya do it, apologized. According to Newsweek:
As a result, BBC Mundo reached out to the woman identified as Miriam Celaya, who “apologized to all Mexicans” on Wednesday. She explained to the media outlet that she left Honduras so that her daughter could receive treatment in the U.S for her hearing and speech loss.
But for us in the U.S., the apology revealed even more undesirable things. She apologized because she said she was coming to the U.S. to get health care for her daughter, who had some expensive medical conditions? That's a rationale for ingratitude? Because it's important to make gringo pay instead? She wasn't looking to escape violence, she was coming for the free stuff. And that's the sort of person the U.S. should let in above all other legal immigrants if the leftwing press is to be believed? Given her requirements on the food front, whatever free health care America has to offer her isn't likely to satisfy her, either. And if the Mexicans are paying $26,000 in meals, imagine what the U.S. health care she's not going to pay for is going to cost.
Guess who's gets to pay for that one?
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Why Hillary and Her Wall Street
Donors Don’t Want Trump’s Wall
"Hillary and her party supporters desperately need illegal
immigrants: Hillary is bought and paid for." Michael Bargo, Jr.
*
"But what the
Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the
American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it
to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal.
Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to
every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy -
AMERICANTHINKER.com
This annual income for an impoverished American
family is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are
spent on each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom
Wong of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25
percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That
totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled
illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified
illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
Mexico’s Immigration Law: Let’s Try
It Here at Home
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Mexico has a radical idea for a
rational immigration policy that most Americans would love. However, Mexican
officials haven’t been sharing that idea with us as they press for our Congress
to adopt the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill.
That’s too
bad, because Mexico, which annually deports more illegal aliensthan the
United States does, has much to teach us about how it handles the immigration issue.
Under Mexican law, it is a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.
At a time when
the Supreme Court and many politicians seek to bring American law in line with
foreign legal norms, it’s noteworthy that nobody has argued that the U.S. look
at how Mexico deals with immigration and what
it might teach us about how best to solve
our illegal immigration problem. Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
our illegal immigration problem. Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
§ in the country
legally;
§ have the means
to sustain themselves economically;
§ not destined
to be burdens on society;
§ of economic
and social benefit to society;
§ of good
character and have no criminal records; and
§ contributors
to the general well-being of the nation.
The law also ensures that:
§ immigration
authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
§ foreign
visitors do not violate their visa status;
§ foreign
visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;
§ foreign
visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
§ foreign
visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
§ those who aid
in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.
Who could disagree with such a law? It
makes perfect sense. The Mexican constitution strictly defines the rights of
citizens — and the denial of many fundamental rights to non-citizens, illegal
and illegal. Under the constitution, the Ley General de PoblaciĆ³n, or
General Law on Population, spells out specifically the country’s immigration policy.
General Law on Population, spells out specifically the country’s immigration policy.
It is an interesting law — and one
that should cause us all to ask, Why is our great southern neighbor pushing us
to water down our own immigration laws and policies, when its own immigration
restrictions are the toughest on the continent? If a felony is a
crime punishable by more than one year in prison, then Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.
crime punishable by more than one year in prison, then Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.
If the United States adopted such
statutes, Mexico no doubt would denounce it as a manifestation of American
racism and bigotry.
We looked at
the immigration provisions of
the Mexican constitution. [1] Now let’s look at Mexico’s main
immigration law.
Mexico welcomes only foreigners who
will be useful to Mexican society:
§ Foreigners are
admitted into Mexico “according to their possibilities of contributing to
national progress.” (Article 32)
§ Immigration
officials must “ensure” that “immigrants will be useful elements for the
country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance” and for
their dependents. (Article 34)
§ Foreigners may
be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the
national demographics,” when foreigners are deemed detrimental to “economic or
national interests,” when they do not behave like good citizens in their own
country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when “they are not found to be
physically or mentally healthy.” (Article 37)
§ The Secretary
of Governance may “suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he
determines it to be in the national interest.” (Article 38)
Mexican authorities must keep track of
every single person in the country:
§ Federal, local
and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon
request, i.e., to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)
§ A National
Population Registry keeps track of “every single individual who comprises the
population of the country,” and verifies each individual’s identity. (Articles
85 and 86)
§ A national
Catalog of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), and
assigns each individual with a unique tracking number (Article 91).
Foreigners with fake papers, or who
enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned:
§ Foreigners
with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned. (Article 116)
§ Foreigners who
sign government documents “with a signature that is false or different from
that which he normally uses” are subject to fine and imprisonment. (Article
116)
Foreigners who fail to obey the rules
will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:
§ Foreigners who
fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)
§ Foreigners who
are deported from Mexico and attempt to re-enter the country without
authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)
§ Foreigners who
violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced to up to six years in prison
(Articles 119, 120 and 121). Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their
visa while in Mexico — such as working with out a permit — can also be
imprisoned.
Under Mexican law, illegal immigration
is a felony. The General Law on Population says,
§ “A penalty of
up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos
will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally.” (Article
123)
§ Foreigners
with legal immigration problems may be deported from Mexico instead of being
imprisoned. (Article 125)
§ Foreigners who
“attempt against national sovereignty or security” will be deported. (Article
126)
Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter
the country are themselves considered criminals under the law:
§ A Mexican who
marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in
the country is subject to up to five years in prison. (Article 127)
§ Shipping and
airline companies that bring undocumented foreigners into Mexico will be fined.
(Article 132)
All of the above runs contrary to what
Mexican leaders are demanding of the United States. The stark contrast between
Mexico’s immigration practices versus its American
immigration preachings is telling. It gives a clear picture of the Mexican government’s agenda: to have a one-way immigration relationship with the United States.
immigration preachings is telling. It gives a clear picture of the Mexican government’s agenda: to have a one-way immigration relationship with the United States.
Let’s call Mexico’s bluff on its
unwarranted interference in U.S. immigration policy. Let’s propose, just to
make a point, that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) member
nations standardize their immigration laws by using Mexico’s own law as a
model.
1. “Mexico’s Glass House,” Center for Security Policy
Occasional Paper, April 3, 2006.
Where To Go When Your Local Emergency
Room Goes
Bankrupt?"
THE QUESTION SHOULD BE WHERE DO ILLEGALS GO FOR “FREE”
MEDICAL.
During the past ten years 84 California hospitals have
declared bankruptcy and closed their Emergency Rooms forever. Financially crippled by legislative and
judicial mandates to treat illegal aliens have bankrupted hospitals! In 2010, in Los Angeles County alone, over 2
million illegal aliens recorded visits to county emergency rooms for both
routine and emergency care. Per official
figures, the cost is $1,000 dollars for every taxpayer in Los Angeles
County.
http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2011/03/where-to-go-when-your-local-emergency.html
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