This is why illegal immigration has become such a flash point…
…and why someone like Trump, who emphasizes it, has gained so much traction with that.
People are angry at stories like this one, in which the illegal immigrant is presented as being a poor, beleaguered person (in this case a mother of young children) whose rights are being taken away:
On September 3, Blanca Borrego of Houston went for a scheduled appointment to see her gynecologist at the Memorial Hermann Northeast Women’s Healthcare clinic. She had two of her children with her.
Instead of seeing her doctor, she was arrested. This is why:
Borrego [is] an undocumented immigrant who overstayed her visa 12 years ago.
A search of Borrego’s possessions turned up a fake Social Security card, resulting in a felony charge for tampering with government documents. Borrego’s bond has been set at $35,000, which her family is unable to afford, and she now faces potential deportation.
But the writer and several organizations want us to feel sorry for her:
In a statement regarding healthcare for unauthorized immigrants issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in March of this year, the organization made explicit their support for a “basic health care package for all women living within the United States without regard to their country of origin or documentation.”
An estimated 11.3 million individuals living in the United States are undocumented, with women comprising 47 percent of this population…
Ana Rodriguez DeFrates of the Texas Latina Advocacy Network said in a statement that the arrest “raises serious questions about patient privacy and human rights of immigrant women in Texas.”…
“The sad fact is that many immigrant women in Texas, and across the country, already forgo needed healthcare, live with lumps in their breasts and daily pain, because clinics are inaccessible or put them at risk for deportation,” she said.
“This is an ongoing human rights crisis, and Blanca Borrego’s arrest shines a light on the struggles of immigrant women, who are routinely denied driver’s licenses, affordable healthcare, and other basic human and civil rights.”
Notice how drivers’ licenses and affordable healthcare (not just plain old healthcare) have become “basic rights” for everyone, even non-citizen lawbreakers.
The article’s commenters are not in agreement with these sentiments, to say the least. Every single comment I read expressed outrage. Of course, I certainly haven’t read them all; there are over 5,000 as I write this. But every single one I read seemed to come from a person who was breathing fire.
This one was informative:
Identity theft is a serious crime and should be punished. The clinic did not report her because of her immigration status. They reported her for showing a fake ID. Another article described what was not right about the fake licence. The state seal was in the wrong place,a hologram was missing and the letters were the wrong color. It wasn’t even a good fake. Give credit to the alert clinic worker who took the time to look closely. With that and the fake SS card she should serve a couple years in prison before being deported.
This was fairly typical:
What about the rights of the person whose SS numbers she’s illegally using? The economic and physical hardship they are enduring with their credit being destroyed and flagged as fraudulent? What about the rights of the thousands involved in accidents with illegals using fake IDs and no insurance? The need of a law abiding citizen who may have to be forced to forgo medical care because they now have to pay for it themselves, and the economic ramifications it has on all our insurance costs? What are the rights of the woman who may have been turned away from this medical office because this women took her place on the patient roll call?
What about the national security ramifications of people walking around with fake government papers, using our resources and having the ability to access secured facilities with ease?
You are a disgrace to journalism with a one sided article somehow ignoring all the people who suffer and will potentially suffer because of those who are breaking the law and committing fraud. This far outweighs the medical needs of those who can find care in their legal homes of origin should they need it.
The article, with its “undocumented” this and “undocumented” that, highlights the rift between the MSM and the people. The MSM and the left has been pushing the narrative that such a woman is a victim (complete with crying children) rather than a perpetrator. But the vast majority of readers aren’t buying it for an instant.
And this is a report of something that’s happening thousands of miles away, in Sweden, to immigrants with a different status. But it’s a related story nevertheless:
The bleary-eyed travelers arriving in Malmo’s glass-and-steel train station agreed on one thing: Sweden was a better place to go than Denmark, which has cut welfare benefits for refugees.
But many said Finland was even better.
“Why Finland? I tell you, because they give us the documents faster,” said Ghanem, a 23-year-old Iraqi, who like many making the journey declined to give his full name. They are worried about being identified by authorities and prevented from going to their preferred destinations. “Sweden, Germany, they will take one year, two years.”
Though the 28-nation European Union has common rules for how to receive asylum-seekers, the benefits provided once they arrive vary widely from one country to the next…
Most are aiming to reach wealthier countries in northern Europe, particularly Germany and Sweden, which stand out for their efforts to offer a generous welcome. However, German authorities say the expectations of people arriving are sometimes unrealistic.
“Germany isn’t just the country of milk and honey, where everything you would want flies into your mouth like a fried pigeon,” German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Shaefer said last week.
EU rules require member states to ensure “a dignified standard of living” for asylum-seekers. That includes housing, food, clothing, a daily allowance, and access to public health care, education and the job market while their claim is processed, which can take up to a year or more.
Getting benefits is now a big, big part of illegal immigration and of becoming a refugee (or claiming to be a refugee). A lot of the people engaged in that process are quite savvy about where they choose to go and what they will get after they’re arrived, and make decisions accordingly. They count on people such as Ana Rodriguez DeFrates to smooth the way, and to try to talk the citizens of the host country into seeing these benefits as rights and themselves as racist “nativists” for thinking there’s something wrong with this entire process.
I’m more concerned about the gang bangers and rape squads the Left likes to import from over the border, to replace their population aborted black thugs and unionized police zombies.
But identity theft, as a white collar thing, might also be interesting, as far as it goes.
The Yahoo headline says it all. This “crackdown” will result in illegals not seeking healthcare. That was the same basic rationale for sanctuary cities. A crackdown would discourage illegals from reporting real crime to the cops.
This story was planted in order to counter the murder of Kate in SF. Sanctuary cities must stay.
Getting benefits is now a big, big part of illegal immigration
So this is can be called economical immigrants, isn’t
I’ve been the office manager of our company for 16 years now. Formerly when we hired people on a seasonal basis (construction) I regularly had to fill out the I-9 for employees. So for years now, I have been aware of the canard that “businesses are responsible for the hiring of illegals to save money”. Utter nonsense. We have always paid above minimum wage for entry-level. But the important thing here is that I’ve always recorded the documents as provided and when I would be contacted by Social Security that “there is a discrepancy”, the only directive was to notify the employee. My hands were tied. Our federal government has been overlooking this FOR YEARS, because the funds going into SS (the employees and our matching “contribution”) have indeed kept that pyramid scheme afloat. Corruption on the government’s part is the biggest reason for the past and present debacle that is our border breach.
Notice how drivers’ licenses and affordable healthcare (not just plain old healthcare) have become “basic rights” for everyone
the point is to convince people that the source of rights is the state… once they believe that, then whats given can be taken away by the state…
thats the point…
Feed the illegals..
but dont feed the ducks, pidgeons, etc..
THATS illegal…
,i>the biggest reason for the past and present debacle that is our border breach.
Put smart fance on the borader, just like this one?
http://gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia-is-building-a-600-mile-wall-along-the-iraq-1685196732
Illegals won’t seek health care? The Affordable Care Act has made my insurance so unaffordable that I don’t seek healthcare. My emotions were curiously untouched by that argument.
Illegal aliens are criminals so why should they be allowed to profit from their crime? We should treat illegal aliens the same way Mexico does.
http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-blessings-of-diversity.html
Shades of the Hitler Youth and that guy who took in teenage females and turned them into serial killers or close enough. Forgot his name actually. Manson?
But some people starting to talk about fighting an actual war these days. I wonder what they’ll do when they find out that half the population they expected to fight for their side, are killing their families because they’ve gone native. Well, Muslim at least.
The pro-choice doctrine is constructed on the development of congruences with notoriously selective moduli.
Whether it is planned parenthood, planned retirement, planned immigration, or planned corruption, the euphemisms are flying from the left, right, and center, but mostly from the left.
This story highlights what the open borders folks carefully hide: coming here (or staying here) illegally sets one down a path of breaking other laws – SS fraud, tax fraud, fake IDs, etc. Makes it hard to portray it as a victimless crime, especially when these laws are broken willingly, defiantly. Even famous illegal immigrant journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas, ran afoul of tax law (http://tinyurl.com/nwot3fj) – not sure whose ID he was using for taxes before he came out of the shadows.
I’m reminded of another inconvenient example of this from two years ago: Vivencia Bellegarde (http://tinyurl.com/obkv6sh).
Want to get steamed about illegal immigration?
Read Ann Coulter’s book, “Adios America.” Very well foot noted and documented, it exposes the way this country is doomed to becoming a Banana Republic unless something is done.
In another comment on a previous thread I linked to a video by Milton Friedman where he explains why uncontrolled immigration (both legal and illegal) is very bad in a country with a welfare program that’s accessible to immigrants.
What happens, of course, is that the producers are eventually overwhelmed by the non-producers. See it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwDhx1XkXX0
The part about immigration starts at 9:30 into the video.
Why has this been allowed to happen? Cheap labor for agriculture and the meat packing industry mostly, but also for construction workers, maids, landscape workers, etc. I live in a mainly agricultural area. We have lots of illegals here. Most of them are hard working, decent people. However, this being a blue state, they are receiving a lot of benefits paid for by the taxpayers.
Way back in the 1970s we had the Bracero program. The workers came in the spring, worked the fields until harvest and went back to Mexico. The farmers were happy, the Braceros were happy, and both Mexico and the U.S. benefitted. The Bracero program was killed by the United Farmworkers union led by Caesar Chavez. But there weren’t enough American farmworkers to work the fields. So they came back illegally and began to stay. With illegals coming, staying, and tapping into the welfare state only the farmers and Mexico are happy.
The farmers and the Chamber of Commerce like the present system. The democrats have realized they can develop a new voting constituency among the illegals, so they like the present system. Then there are the big L Libertarians. They like open borders because it provides the maximum of liberty or some such claim. That is why nothing has been done about it. Both sides of the aisle like the system but for different reasons.
As to healthcare for illegals. The last time I was in an ER at night (about 4 years ago) it was loaded with immigrants. Many of them were no doubt illegal. Since EMTALA was passed back in the 80s that is where the poor go for medical care. They get it free and the cost is passed on to patients who can pay. (Those with insurance.) This is another reason healthcare is a mess.
Close the border. Track visitors who come on visas to make sure the leave when they should. Stop providing welfare benefits to illegals. Stop the sanctuary cities by denying federal funding to them and prosecute their mayors if they don’t comply. Change the anchor baby system. When the border is closed, ask the illegals to come forward and register. Deport all the criminals. Provide guest worker status to those whop agree to pay a fine, learn English, and pay taxes. No citizenship, ever. Want that to happen? Elect a conservative President and Republican houses of Congress.
Any one who thinks Americans still have rights is delusional.
This is the same thinking that leads to the migrants DEMANDING to be let into Europe and fighting when someone says no. It’s their RIGHT.
The ABC reporter/advocate today pushed all the buttons: crying children, the “horror” of tear gas, etc. Not a word about how this is basically an invasion.
There is a “city” in Saudi Arabia called Mina. Look it up on Google images if you do not know about it. It is, literally, composed of tents. Fully functional, AIR-CONDITIONED, tents.
There are 100,000 of them (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND, you read that correctly). They are used by pilgrims during Hajj every year. That is their whole purpose. Otherwise they are EMPTY.
So, we have a geographically close, culturally close country which ALREADY HAS the logistics and the material conditions covered to take a few MILLION people. True, they would have to renounce or seriously scale down Hajj for the duration of the crisis, but one would have thought that they would find it prioritary to take care of their brethren first and foremost (and sort out the real refugees from economic migrants).
Nope. Not happening.
The smallest percentage of the refugees and the “refugees” are women and children, but you would not necessarily say so from the photographs that are being pushed by the media. MOST of them are able-bodied, militarily-capable young men. Curious how we extend the word “refugees” to them; my parents swear that the word for this phenomenon used to be “deserter”. That is the population that is supposed to DEFEND their country, while they send their women and their children someplace safe, if necessary. According to OUR cultural norms, at least.
In their universe it seems to be the other way round. Leave women and children to be sexually enslaved, tortured, killed, used as policial pawns, and send the strongest, able-bodied members of the population to seek asylum. Interesting, even when we keep in mind that most “refugees” are economic migrants profiting from the situation.
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“….human and civil rights.”
Are inventions of the Marxists.
The only real rights are God given inalienable rights.
Anyone interested in becoming part of the Republic of Texas?
Just do not Californicate Texas.