Washington state mollycoddles workers who refuse to learn English
Despite a hiring freeze in Washington state agencies, a preposterous position was recently concocted called Provider Navigator.
One shudders at the HR groupthink behind defining the PN’s purpose: to increase access to quality health care for injured workers with limited English proficiency (LEP) and cultural needs that affect their claims and recovery.
While other important positions are going unfilled, and important business is being delayed during the freeze, these PNs are receiving undeserved salaries to essentially schmooze with medical providers who operate under the workers’ compensation system.
Sure, the providers must observe some protocols to do business with the state, but it’s not their mission to mollycoddle LEP workers. They might reach out voluntarily, but they shouldn’t be coerced by the pretentious PNs under the aegis of the granny state. Often, the workers’ comp system needs providers more than providers they need the bureaucratic rigmarole.
Why would immigrants have such limited English proficiency, anyway? And what’s with their special cultural needs? English is one of the most spoken languages in the world. Masses yearning to breathe free managed to learn it as they waved their American flags while passing the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island en route to America’s plenty.
LEP immigrants don’t deserve to be pampered by tax-payer supported PNs if they are reluctant to learn English. Research shows that Spanish speakers aren't learning English as quickly as other immigrant groups.
Part of the problem cited in the linked article is the testimonial that, “They didn’t wanna learn it [English language] as fast because they didn’t need to use it.” How will PNs aiding and abetting them confront this failure?
According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Latinos believe that immigrants need to speak English to participate in our society -- perhaps the minority should participate instead of relying on PN proxies.
Actually, what’s disturbing is that the minority is so large – 41%!
One who values the vivid patchwork of cultures that blended into a beautiful E Pluribus Unum tapestry, wonders: if they are LEP and have specific cultural needs, then did their employers properly vet them? Per the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, workers are required to show I-9 documents proving their employment eligibility. If the LEP worker is discovered to be interloping illegally, then for the sake of law and order in America, for the sake of citizens and legal immigrants, repercussions await. After all, not only did they illegally insinuate themselves into our society, but they’ve perpetrated fraud while some hapless victim suffers the havoc of identity theft.
Of course, Americans are a humane and generous people, so we magnanimously provide LEP workers medical disability services if they are injured on the job. This accords with court cases that affirm workers’ compensation coverage even for the illegals. However, PNs only further LEP worker dependency and isolation, making them a public charge.
Presuming they are not deported, do they want a better life, with more freedom and civic engagement, or will they succumb to the clingy clutches of Gov. Jay Inslee’s officious minions? With a little less hubris and a bit more commitment, one can graduate from LEP to EP – English Proficient.
It’s really not that hard, as many of the more than billion people who’ve done it attest. An additional benefit is that the very endeavor of learning a language fosters an appreciation for the culture – the two are inextricably linked.
That should make PNs obsolete before they have a chance to navigate the immigrants to the public trough.
We can live up to our deserved moniker of “the last great hope of Earth” while preventing self-isolation and pockets of immigrant sanctuaries from dimming our shining light. It’s called muscular liberalism; it completely eviscerates whatever distorted rationale conceived the profligate Provider Navigators positions.
Spanish-speaking immigrants’ slowness in learning English is a man-made crisis, brought on by government enabling. For these immigrants' own good, it’s time to make it more profitable for them to learn English than to remain unproficient.
Instead of mollycoddling LEP workers, it’s time to navigate the PNs to more productive employment…after the hiring freeze thaws.
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AZ Sheriff: We’re Getting ‘Five or Six Groups a Day’ Crossing in Spot Where Fence Isn’t Complete
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Cochise County, AZ Sheriff Mark Dannels (R) criticized President Joe Biden for halting the construction of the border wall and stated that “one area where the fence is not complete, we get five or six groups a day coming across there.”
Dannels said, “When President Biden rescinded the emergency order on the southwest border, it stopped resources and stopped construction on our border. As a result of that, one area where the fence is not complete, we get five or six groups a day coming across there. It’s opened up the border. … This administration owns this decision and what it’s doing is it’s forcing us back to 2019, when we had the largest what I call crime scene in the country, to include the largest humanitarian situation going on.”
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Joe Biden Expands ‘Sanctuary Country’ Orders, Gives Illegal Aliens Another Route to Avoid Arrest
President Joe Biden is expanding his breakdown of interior immigration enforcement, dubbed “sanctuary country” orders, by giving illegal aliens another avenue to avoid arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
On Friday, ICE officials told Congress that the agency would open an “ICE Case Review” process in which illegal aliens can challenge their arrest and detainment.
Already, Biden has implemented sanctuary country orders whereby about nine-in-ten illegal aliens, who would typically be arrested by ICE and deported, now face no threat of arrest and deportation until they are convicted of an aggravated felony or found to be a national security threat.
The review process will mean that illegal aliens can challenge their arrest and detainment if they believe they do not meet the convicted aggravated felon, terrorist, gang member, or national security threat standards.
As a result, the limited number of illegal aliens arrested and detained by ICE will now be able to contest their arrests through this additional route.
“It’s as if the Biden people are more intent on reversing every single immigration enforcement action that the Trump administration took, no matter how appropriate or routine, and no matter the cost to taxpayers nor how illogical to reverse it,” the Center for Immigration Studies’ Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News.
“It’s an insult to legal immigrants,” Vaughan said.
As Breitbart News reported, Biden’s sanctuary country orders are helping arrested illegal aliens avoid arrest and deportation by ICE. Instead, local law enforcement officials are having to release illegal aliens arrested for crimes back into their communities.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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