Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, June 04, 2007 3:12:00 PM
What a great neighbor the Mexican government is -
they encourage their poor, uneducated, unskilled, and criminal elements to come to the U.S. illegally and milk our system.
First came the Mexican consular photo identification cards that closely resembled U.S. driver's licenses and allowed immigrants, including those in the country illegally, to establish credit and apply for government services.
Then the Mexican government worked with the Treasury Department to make sure the U.S. banking system remained open to immigrants.
Now Mexican consulates in the U.S. are taking on an even more formidable challenge: the healthcare system.
A program called Ventanillas de Salud, or Health Windows, aims to provide Mexican immigrants with basic health information, cholesterol checks and other preventive tests. It also makes referrals to U.S. hospitals, health centers and government programs where patients can get care without fear of being turned over to immigration authorities.
Isn’t that lovely?
"Being undocumented, we thought we didn't have the right to certain things," said Rosalba Hernandez, 26, who came to the U.S. two years ago and lives in Panorama City. "We were scared to ask for information."
Hernandez, a housecleaner, and her boyfriend, a gardener, said they rarely go to the doctor because of treatment costs and fear of deportation. But after a visit to the Mexican Consulate last week to get her consular ID card, Hernandez now knows she can get affordable insurance and free access to some government health services.
Except the “free” stuff is paid for by idiots like us, who allow the government to take the money by force from us and redistribute it. I love the use of the term “undocumented”. Drug dealers are simply “unlicensed” pharmacists. Rapist are simply “unapproved” sexual partners. Forgers are simply “unauthenticated” representatives.
Launched in 2003 in Los Angeles and San Diego, the Ventanillas program is currently operating in 11 cities, including Chicago and Houston, and the goal is to have a version in all 47 Mexican consulates around the country.
Thank you, Mexico. Why don’t you kick in to pay for some of the bills, you freeloading pile of corruption?
"It facilitates people remaining in the country illegally," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "Clearly it is a policy of the Mexican government … to get all the institutions in the U.S. to provide services to their citizens who are living here illegally."
Mehlman said Los Angeles County, especially, should not be partnering with the consulate to provide health services. "The county is broke, they are cutting back on services, they are closing emergency rooms, yet they are dreaming up new ways to provide benefits to illegal aliens," he said. "It's lunacy."
At least they included some sanity in this article.
Health services to illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County cost the Medi-Cal program nearly $440 million in 2005, according to the California Department of Health Services. Statewide, that number was more than $1.1 billion last year.
Ka-ching! Free money to Mexico’s people!
A Rand Corp. study published last year found that adult immigrants in general, and the undocumented in particular, consume fewer healthcare resources per person than the native-born. In part that's because immigrants are younger and healthier, and because they are less likely to have health insurance, the study found.
You know, the thieves that stole my car drove it a lot less than I did, over the course of a year. The burglar who broke into my home only took one piece of electronic equipment instead of all of them. I guess that makes it okay.
Consul Beltran said the Ventanillas program saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care, rather than waiting until they need much more expensive emergency care.
Sweet. You know, if I simply hand the keys over to those gang-bangers who want to take my car for a joyride, then they don’t have to break the window or hotwire the car to get in and take a ride.
Socorro Alanis, a community worker from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, also explained that pregnant women and infants are entitled to immunization and nutritional benefits through the federal program Women, Infants and Children, regardless of their legal status.
"This program is free," Alanis said to the group, holding up a flier about WIC.
It’s not free. It costs
me a lot of money.
"We have the right to health services," Cortez said. "We are not delinquents. We work."
See that? You have a
right for
someone else to provide you with medical expertise, labor, equipment, facilities, and drugs. You not only have a right to force other people to provide these to you, have a right to do it in a foreign country you are in illegally. We are successfully imparting our foolish socialism attitude on the illegal aliens who are invading our country and turning it into the slums of Tijuana. Open your wallet wide, and remember to learn Spanish!