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The passage of the newest attempt at health care reform from the Obama administration should not be a surprise to those that actually listened to what he said during the election fun run. He said he was going to do it and his is doing his best to live up to his promise.
However one of the salient issues of the plan is how many people are truly not covered by insurance in this country.
We see the number of 45 million bandied about but how many would there really be without counting those here illegally? And even though the plan supposedly does not cover illegal’s it, of course, does. No changes on the emergency room care thing….
So when we talk about problems facing our country lets talk about the problems we have because of the illegals that are here now.
Let’s look at the US Census Bureau’s data from March of 2007:
The immigrant population (legal and illegal) was almost 38 million, the highest level in over 80 years. Nearly one third of the immigrants are here illegally or OVER 12 million. 50 percent of the Mexican immigrants are here illegally.
The proportion of immigrant household using social programs is 33 percent as opposed to 19 percent for native households.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that 9 percent of the population of Mexico was living in the US in 2004.
Heather MacDonald wrote that in 2006 that the unmarried Hispanic birthrate in the country was over 3 times that of white and 1.5 that of black women.
The Manhattan Institute found in 2008 that the Hispanic culture is also not assimilating at the rate other immigrant groups are. Additionally Mexican adolescents are imprisoned at rates much greater than other immigrant groups.
This opinion piece is not to bash the Hispanic population legally here but to point out there are many problems facing us with unbridled illegal immigration. And what are we doing about it? Aiding and abetting this problem.
How are we doing that? How about sanctuary cities who order their law enforcement personnel not to tell the Feds when they arrest an illegal. Look at San Francisco this week. The mayor, notorious for his open city has tried to rein in this illegal tidal wave by ordering law enforcement to actually enforce a federal law and turn juvenile felony arrests to the Feds. Of course the City Council voted to overturn his edict and he vetoed that so they are in a mess of their own making.
Besides sanctuary cities we have very lax enforcement of employer sanctions for hiring illegals. When a large company is raided the outcry from the politicians is so loud one forgets that the raids were to pick up illegal’s that were taking jobs from Americans. And other little ways to make our illegal’s feel welcome like in-state tuition, free medical care at hospitals, driver’s licenses, free public school education and of course the best present of all---citizenship for babies born in the US to illegal parents.
Someone needs to explain this travesty to me. The 14th Amendment supposedly gives this right to illegal’s to have an anchor baby in the US. But does the 14th Amendment do this. Some would argue that the passage in the Amendment that states “born or naturalized in the US, and subject to jurisdiction thereof, are citizens”. But if you are here illegally whose jurisdiction do you fall under? Commit a crime and you can be punished—but who punishes the baby or its parents?
There are several hundred other things I could bring up here but I think you get my drift. If you want to get deeper into this check out Mark Levin’s book “Liberty and Tyranny” and read Chapter nine. Much of the information I have here is from the sources he uses. And then tell me how you feel.
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