MEXICO’S
BIGGEST EXPORT NEXT TO DRUGS ARE CRIMINALS, POVERTY and PREGNANT WOMEN. THEY
DON’T HOP OUR BORDERS AND JOBS TO BECOME AMERICANS, THEY COME AS LOOTERS,
INVITED TO DO SO BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
“Many hospitals
and clinics are going broke because of the constant stream of uninsured, many
of whom are the estimated 12 million to 15 million illegal immigrants”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR
What will America stand
for in 2050?
The
US should think long and hard about the high number of Latino immigrants.
By
Lawrence Harrison
Palo Alto, Calif.
President Obama
has encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country – on
a number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make
some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The
US must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all
from Latin America.
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
The political
realities of the rapidly growing Latino population are such that Mr. Obama may
be the last president who can avert the permanent, vast underclass implied by
the current Census Bureau projection for 2050.
Do I sound like a
right-wing "nativist"? I'm not. I'm a lifelong Democrat; an early and
avid supporter of Obama. I'm gratified
by his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. I'm also the
grandson of Eastern European Jewish immigrants; and a member, along with
several other Democrats, of the advisory boards of the Federation for American
Immigration Reform and Pro English. Similar concerns preoccupied the
distinguished Democrat Barbara Jordan when she chaired the congressionally
mandated US Commission on Immigration Reform in the 1990s.
Congresswoman Jordan was worried about the adverse impact of high
levels of legal and illegal immigration on poor citizens, disproportionately
Latinos and African-Americans. The principal beneficiaries of our current
immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard
wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American
workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant
flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.
The healthcare
cost of the illegal workforce is especially burdensome, and is subsidized by
taxpayers. To claim Medicaid, you must be legal, but as the Health and Human
Services inspector general found, 47 states allow self-declaration of status
for Medicaid. Many hospitals and clinics
are going broke because of the constant stream of uninsured, many of whom are
the estimated 12 million to 15 million illegal immigrants. This translates
into reduced services, particularly for lower-income citizens.
The US population
totaled 281 million in 2000. About 35 million, or 12.5 percent, were Latino.
The Census Bureau projects that our population will reach 439 million in 2050,
a 56 percent increase over the 2000 census. The Hispanic population in 2050 is
projected at 133 million – 30 percent of the total and almost quadruple the
2000 level. Population growth is the principal threat to the environment via
natural resource use, sprawl, and pollution. And population growth is fueled
chiefly by immigration.
Consider what
this, combined with worrisome evidence that Latinos are not melting into our
cultural mainstream, means for the US. Latinos have contributed some positive
cultural attributes, such as multigenerational family bonds, to US society. But
the same traditional values that lie behind Latin America's difficulties in
achieving democratic stability, social justice, and prosperity are being
substantially perpetuated among Hispanic-Americans.
Prominent Latin
Americans have concluded that traditional values are at the root of the
region's development problems. Among those expressing that opinion: Peruvian
writer Mario Vargas Llosa; Nobelist author Octavio Paz, a Mexican; Teodoro
Moscoso, a Puerto Rican politician and US ambassador to Venezuela; and Ecuador's
former president, Osvaldo Hurtado.
Latin America's
cultural problem is apparent in the persistent Latino high school dropout rate
– 40 percent in California, according to a recent study – and the high
incidence of teenage pregnancy, single mothers, and crime. The perpetuation of Latino culture is facilitated by the Spanish
language's growing challenge to English as our national language. It makes
it easier for Latinos to avoid the melting pot and for education to remain a
low priority, as it is in Latin America – a problem highlighted in recent books
by former New York City deputy mayor Herman Badillo, a Puerto Rican, and
Mexican-Americans Lionel Sosa and Ernesto Caravantes.
Language is the
conduit of culture. Consider: There is no word in Spanish for "compromise"
(compromiso means "commitment") nor for "accountability," a
problem that is compounded by a verb structure that converts "I dropped
(broke, forgot) something" into "it got dropped" ("broken,"
"forgotten").
As the USAID
mission director during the first two years of the Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua, I had difficulty communicating "dissent" to a government
minister at a crucial moment in our efforts to convince the US Congress to
approve a special appropriation for Nicaragua.
I was later told
by a bilingual, bicultural Nicaraguan educator that when I used
"dissent" what my Nicaraguan counterparts understood was
"heresy." "We are, after all, children of the Inquisition,"
he added.
In a letter to me
in 1991, Mexican-American columnist Richard Estrada described the essence of
the problem of immigration as one of numbers. We should really worry, he wrote,
"when the numbers begin to favor not only the maintenance and
replenishment of the immigrants' source culture, but also its overall growth,
and in particular growth so large that the numbers not only impede assimilation
but go beyond to pose a challenge to the traditional culture of the American
nation."
Obama should
confront the challenges by enforcing immigration laws on employment to help end
illegal immigration. We should calibrate legal immigration annually to (1) the
needs of the economy, as Ms. Jordan urged, and (2) past performance of
immigrant groups with respect to acculturation.
We must declare our national language to be English and discourage
the proliferation of Spanish- language media. We should limit citizenship by
birth to the offspring of citizens. And we should provide immigrants with
easy-to-access educational services that facilitate acculturation, including
English language, citizenship, and American values.
Lawrence Harrison
directs the Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School, Tufts University,
in Medford, Mass. He is the author of "The Central Liberal Truth: How
Politics Can Change A Culture And Save It From Itself."
*
While
the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret
amnesty
plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of
medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding
compensation from the federal government.
CA Hospitals
Spend $1.25 Billion On Illegal Immigrants
July 05, 2011
While the Obama Administration
halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the
U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal
immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal
government .The
group that represents most of the nation’s hospitals and medical providers
recently urged President Obama to work with Congress to reimburse them for the
monstrous cost of treating illegal immigrants. Federal law requires facilities
to “treat and stabilize individuals” regardless of their immigration status,
but federal support for the services remains “virtually
nonexistent,”according
to a letter submitted by the American Hospital Association to the
president.This week officials in California, the state with the largest
concentration of illegal immigrants, joined the call for federal compensation
after revealing that hospitals there spend about $1.25 billion annually to care for illegal
aliens. The figure skyrocketed from $1.05 billion in 2007, according to
California Hospital Association figures quoted in a local news report.The
problem will only get worst, according to officials, who say the $1.25 billion
for 2010 could actually be higher. They complain that federal law forces them
to treat patients in emergency rooms regardless of immigration status yet they
get stuck with the financial burden. This has forced many hospitals to curtail
services or close beds and could ultimately compromise healthcare. Nationwide,
U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars annually to provide free
medical care for illegal immigrants with states that border Mexico taking the
biggest hit. Adding to the problem is the fact that Mexico, the country that provides
the largest amount of illegal immigrants in the U.S., has long promoted
America’s generous public health centers. It even operates a Spanish-language
program(Ventanillas
de Salud, Health Windows) in about a dozen U.S. cities that refers its
nationals—living in the country illegally—to publicly funded health centers
where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration
authorities.
*
THE REALITY OF
LA RAZA’S LOOTING OF CA:
Consider
Ignacio Mesa Viera, subject of a recent front-page story in the Sacramento Bee.
He came to the United States illegally in 1979 to work and help his family, as
he explained, but was convicted on a drug offense in 1995. He was deported but
returned to the United States, whereupon he was busted for another drug offense
in 2008. Before his recent deportation, the U.S. government was paying for
Viera’s kidney dialysis, a treatment that can cost more than $60,000 a year. “I
imagine that the reason they don’t want to let me stay in this country,” Viera
told the Bee, “is they don’t want to be paying for this.”
*
YES! OBAMA DID LIE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HIS OBAMACARE DID NOT
INCLUDE ILLEGALS! OBAMA AND PELOSI HAD IT RIGGED SO THAT WHILE IT READS THAT IT
PRECLUDES ILLEGALS, IT IS ILLEGAL TO ASK THE ILLEGAL WHAT THEIR STATUS IS! DEMS
ARE THE PARTY of ILLEGALS!
HERE’S
HOW IT WORKS: THE FEDERAL GOV REFUSES TO DEFEND OUR BORDERS AGAINST THE MEX
INVASION, BUT THEN CUTS STATES’ REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION.
PRIVATE
HOSPITALS IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA ALONE MUST PAY OUT $1.3 BILLION PER YEAR IN
MEDICAL TO ILLEGALS. MANY COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE. LOS ANGELES PAYS OUT $600
MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, SOME OF WHICH IS “FREE” MEDICAL!
NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED TO BE LOOTED BY MEXICO! AND
IT ONLY GETS WORSE YEAR AFTER YEAR!
WASHINGTON
STATE IS A SANCTUARY STATE THAT ENCOURAGES ILLEGALS TO OCCUPY SO THE STATE CAN PAY MISERABLE WAGES. HOW MUCH DOES
ALL THAT “CHEAP” MEXICAN LABOR REALLY COST LEGALS? IN MEXIFORNIA, ONE-THIRD OF ILLEGALS
END UP ON WELFARE (SEE THE CASE STUDY
BELOW FOR THE STAGGERING COST OF JUST ONE FAMILY).
They include small rural outposts like Othello Community
Hospital in
Washington State, which receives a steady flow of farmworkers who live in the
country illegally.
NEW YORK TIMES
July 26, 2012
Hospitals
Are Worried About Cut in Fund for the Uninsured
President
Obama’s health
care law is putting new strains on some of the nation’s most hard-pressed
hospitals, by cutting aid they use to pay for emergency care for illegal
immigrants, which they have long been required to provide.
The
federal government has been spending $20 billion annually to reimburse these
hospitals — most in poor urban and
rural areas — for treating more than their share of the uninsured, including
illegal immigrants. The health care law will eventually cut that money in half,
based on the premise that fewer people will lack insurance after the law takes
effect.
But the
estimated 11
million people now living illegally in the United States are not covered by the
health care law. Its sponsors, seeking to sidestep the contentious debate overimmigration, excluded them from the law’s benefits.
As a
result, so-called safety-net hospitals said the cuts would deal a severe blow
to their finances.
The hospitals are coming under this pressure
because many of their uninsured patients are illegal immigrants, and because
their large pools of uninsured or poorly insured patients are not expected to
be reduced significantly under the Affordable Care Act, even as federal aid
shrinks.
The
hospitals range from prominent public ones, like Bellevue Hospital Center in
Manhattan, to neighborhood mainstays like Lutheran
Medical Center in Brooklyn and Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego. They include small rural outposts like Othello
Community Hospital in Washington State, which receives a steady
flow of farmworkers who live in the country illegally.
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