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About three years ago, Eduardo Mora, a deacon at Saint Mary Parish Church in Waltham, Mass., attended an enrollment event of the Latino Health Insurance Program. Mora, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was worried about the fate of his mother-in-law, whose leg had just been amputated in the hospital due to untreated diabetes.
Mora’s mother-in-law didn’t have health insurance. But it wasn’t because she didn’t qualify.
As a result of the event, the deacon got in touch with Dr. Milagros Abreu, founder and director of the Latino Health Insurance Program in Massachusetts.
“Many immigrants just don’t know how to navigate the system; they’re misinformed about the requirements needed for enrollment, and in many cases don’t even know they are eligible under a program,” said Abreu.
Not only did Mora enroll his mother-in-law in a health insurance program, but he was also able to enroll her in long-term care. But the Ecuadorian immigrant went further. Mora became a “case manager” for the Latino Health Insurance Program. In his church’s parish, the deacon helps parishioners who are legal immigrants from Guatemalan, Ugandan and Haitian fill out electronic health forms and translate the fine print.
Case managers like Mora also teach immigrant families simple but crucial information, such as notifying insurance companies if they change addresses or phone numbers. Information seminars take place in church basements, bodegas and beauty salons.
“Immigrants come here to work, to be productive,” said Abreu, who herself immigrated from the Dominican Republic more than a decade ago. “They just need the tools to be healthy and to become engines in their community.”
Helping people navigate the system
Abreu is an epidemiologist and faculty member at the Boston University School of Public Health. Years ago, while researching Latino children’s access to medical care, Abreu found that a large number of the immigrant children she saw did not have health insurance. Yet most of them were born in Massachusetts and were thus eligible for the state’s children’s insurance program.
In 2006, Abreu and her colleagues decided to conduct a randomized trial. She gave one group of legal immigrant families access to a case manager who guided them through the process of applying for state-subsidized or non-subsidized insurance and compared them to another group of families who didn't have any help.
The result? More than 90 percent of families with case managers successfully enrolled in health insurance, as opposed to fewer than 50 percent of the families without case managers.
With these results in hand, Abreu started the Latino Health Program in East Boston in May 2006 to help legal immigrants with lawful permanent resident status – so called green card holders – navigate and enroll in Massachusetts health insurance program.
Over the course of six months, they had enrolled more than 200 children and adults. Four years later, the program has helped about 3,000 families enroll in a health insurance plan. Abreu said that some families they helped enroll had not seen a doctor in 14 years.
“Not only are we making immigrant families healthier and more productive, but we are creating workforce development,” Abreu explained. “We train pastors and schoolteachers as case managers, and they not only help their community members with insurance enrollment but with information on healthy eating, chronic disease prevention and cancer screening.”
Abreu’s program does not receive state funding to pay the case managers; the program is funded through non-profits, foundations and local churches.
Even in Massachusetts, a state that requires that residents maintain health insurance, about 2 percent of the population does not have coverage. But of that 2 percent, more than 10 percent are Latino. According to Abreu and her colleagues, the reasons are varied.
Some immigrants fear that even though they are here legally as green card holders, if they “burden” the insurance system they lessen their family’s chances of obtaining citizenship. In many cases, immigrants are employed by small businesses that do not offer health insurance or who offer plans with high premiums. Yet many workers do not know that they qualify for other subsidized insurance plans.
Unhealthy immigrants, strained resources
The lack of health insurance, Abreu points out, has negative consequences that go beyond the uninsured individual. Immigrants without health insurance are more likely to wait until they are very sick and then use the emergency room, which increases the costs of the state insurance system.
A study done by Abreu and her team of researchers gave the example of a child who comes into an emergency room with uncomplicated appendicitis and spends about two days at the hospital, at a cost of about $2,000. But a child who comes in with a more serious perforated appendix and has to have a more complicated surgery will spend about a week in the hospital and it will cost about $100,000.
“As we start to implement healthcare reform at the national level, there have to be more programs like ours to help immigrant families navigate the insurance and healthcare process,” Abreu said. “Sometimes, the simplest facts are not a given in this community,” she added.
As Abreu seeks to obtain more funding and expand her program, she believes her model of community-based health care information works. She says it helps to achieve the reason most immigrants come to the United States. “Immigrants come to the United States because they want their families to progress. When they are healthy, the community progresses too.”
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can she help natural born US citizens get health care too? That would be awesome!
How about someone helping them get their ass back to where ever they came from!
Amen dudley.
I agree with David - that would be great if they would help US citizens get health care too! I am a hard working divorced mom of 3, and we do not have medical insurance. Can't afford it. I work long, hard hours and I wonder how much of my taxes helps pay for the medical care for 'green card' folks. I am frustrated, but I keep working those long hours, volunteer support for our veterans, the NRA, and the Red Cross, but more importantly - I stay out of the free social services line!
I am truly sorry to inform you that anyone born in the USA is a natural citizen and deserves all appropriate benefits available to any other natural born citizen regardless of where their parents happen to be born. If we look back in our own histories (white, black, brown) 90% of AMERICANS have people who originally came from another country, also these undocumented workers you are degrading also pay taxes each week in this country yet are unable to collect any type of income tax dollars at year end. Wonder what the state and federal government do with all that surplus funds each year, might it fund the millions of Americans who drive fancy cars and collect welfare checks and food-stamps, at least they have a good strong work ethic in the Latino/Hispanic culture and do not expect a handout from anyone unless they earn it.
To heck with helping the illegals get insurance. What about the US citizens that pay taxes for those dang illegals free insurance, when the US citizens do not have any themselves? I am sick and tired of illegals taking advantage of legal US citizens. The USA has become the laughing stock of foreign countries, but they are not blaming hussein obama, they are blaming the stupid citizens for voting his sorry a-- into office. WE ARE THE STUPID FOOLS people. Stand up for America and stand AGAINST what obama is doing to America. He is taking all of our freedom away from us. He will probably let those dang muslims build their mosque on Ground Zero and preach their "SHARIAH LAW".
Just FYI A person must have a legal social security number to qualify for public benefits in America, let us say for the record how many illegal immigrants do you think have such a document as a LEGAL SS# ?
Thats exactly what the Latinos have in mind. In a few short years they will flat out outnumber legal, natural born US citizens and then watch and see what they do. Hate, no it is not hate it is extreme frustration. Having fought and bled for my country, worked long and hard for 30+ years to see my country invaded and our AMERICAn way of life and standard of living changed by a race of people that flaunt our laws and will not stand up for their own country. Just the fact that there is a Latino Health Insurance Plan, call it a whites only or US Citizens ONLY and you will find a lawsuit on your doorstep calling the company discrimantory, yet latinos can do it with impunity.
They get it without having it lady you know that you can't refuse anybody medical care. And believe me they know exactly how to work the system. What state are you in because in Ga they get everything they ask for the red carpet is rolled out to them. But when my people came over here they had to work and pay and struggle so that we would have a better life not people who need to stand up to there own government instead of taking handouts. But things are about to come to a head. Its time to pay up or get OUT. And that is not being prejudice it is time to stand up for ourselves because of our children and grandchildren
i'm an immigrant who pays takes since i was 17 years-old and i have never apply for any goverment aid program, because i have pride, i was taugh to work hard always, i'm 30 years old and i'm still single because i want to finsh college first and give a better life to my future childrens, us hispanics come here to work hard and we don't want to take anything for free.....God bless America
Patricia Larraga MHCL.RN,
You make zero sense. How are the illegals paying income taxes? You mean with the illegal Social Security numbers? You do realize how they get these numbers don't you? Through identity theft! Do you know how many people a year get in trouble with the IRS because someone else was using their SSN and unknowingly the IRS was seeing a higher income than the true SSN holder was making. When the actually citizen hits hard times and tries collecting social benifits they can be turned down because someone else is using their SSN number and is already using it to collect benifits. Yeah these people are great! You will not be very happy once it is your number they start using.... Trust me. It won't be just one using it either, the number gets used by many of them at once.
This socialist liberal mindset is contributing in the further erosion of our country. The taxes they may pay in no way makes up for the money they are siphoning in free education, medical care, food stamps and housing, etc..... This feel good crap is insane. We as a country can NOT afford it! Has it not sunken into your head our country is heading for bankruptcy because of this liberal progressive garbage of a socialist feel good society. Everything is based on feelings instead of reality. Funnier still you think the so called "rich" should pay for it all. God forbid your taxes should go up even though you are the one who wants to care for those here illegally.
You liberals want these people to be here, sign up to be legal sponsors for them. That means you are legally, financially and medically responsible for them. They are not to become financial burdens on the state or country. You do this with all of the illegals, you won't hear a complaint out of me.
But you want all of them legal and illegal to partake of these benefits. The child maybe a legal citizen but just because the child is does not change the parents legal status, nor should it.
And they came legally via Ellis Island, through legal marriage, legally granted asylum, or as with the slaves, were brought here against their will not considered people at the time nor had the rights of citizens. See there is a difference between legal and illegal.
They are illegally using someone elses social security numbers! They are illegally in the country! You can not commit a crime then complain you are not benefiting from the crime.
Have you not been paying attention to why people want those here illegally to leave? They are collecting welfare, food stamps, medical care, schooling for their children. Don't try telling me they are such a benefit to our country. It has been proven they are costing more than they are giving. Most of the money they make is being sent to their home countries. Also, 99% of those hiring illegals hire them as independent contractors. That way they aren't responsible for deducting taxes it is up to the independent contractor (in this case the illegal alien) to pay the tax which of course they do not. Hence there is no surplus. Where do you get this crap? If they were putting more in to the system than they were taking out I don't imagine there would be as much outrage.
They use stolen Social Security Numbers and in some states all they have to do is produce a bill in their name and a pay stub to prove residency and sign up for benefits.
You have got to get out of that Utopian dream world and into reality. It's easy to say we should be caring for anyone who enters our country legally or illegally, having social give aways for everyone unless you have to actually pay for it. When you have to pay the bill, suddenly reality sets in and you wonder why we are doing this. Mind you I am far from rich, I likely make less than you. I have just woken up and realized my way of thinking the rich are evil or owed me anything just because they had money and I did not.
My ancestors came from Europe thru Ellis Island LEGALLY! These other people came ILLEGALLY! Why does our government fail to understand the difference?
Illegal is illegal, they should be sent home on the first bus.
I believe that legitimate American citizens are supporting a whole population if illegal immigrants and their children born in this country. Why would children born in this country of illegal immigrant parents be automatically granted legal American citizen status? This really has to stop! And I agree with comment #3, that there are legitimate American citizens , who pay taxes, cannot afford health insurance for themselves or their families; yet, are seeing their money going to help illegal immigrants and their families! Makes no sense at all!!!
I think you are exactly right about some Americans that pay taxes but can't get anythig from our great government.And it makes me furious that Our GREAT PRESIDENT does'nt know what ILLEGAL means. Shame on him!!
Mora needs to be deported, the whole dman race needs to be deported. If immigrant feel neglected fu----, letem go back to Mexico.
Since your feeling of hate are so strongly public it sure is a good thing that they will out number you over the next few years, does hate that strong hurt????????
How many illegals have a SSN, try a gross amount of them. Are they theirs? Some are, gotten with false papers. All one has to do is check with the LA Times and they will show you a whole block in LA where one can get any US document, looks and feels real but is fake as a 3 dollar bill. They buy houses, cars etc with fake documents. Just ask Riverside county how many vehicles have been impounded and houses found to be behind in property taxes purchased by individuals with documents that did not belong to them.
Well I find it strange that what wasn't mentioned was the abuse of the states workers compensation programs by the hispanic community both legal and illegal, why are there so many doctors in these latino communitys if they are not aware of healthcare services?? and one of the big reasons many smaller companys have difficult time in business is the cost of paying for latino's that work awhile then file claims get three quarters of their regular pay, are referred from chiropractors for expensive tests, then to "pain management surgeries" then more physicial therapy
what do you think this does to all peoples insurance costs?? Look at television univision, telemundo all the latino media filled with advertisments. As for this woman, case Hamas in the middle east also uses services as a way to recruit and organize...
Deport all illegals, those that hire or harbour them should go to jail, and shme on the author, the subject, and NBC for making crimals into celebrities
Charity starts at home.
I am so sick and tired of my tax dollars going to help out these immigrants when there are people right in my own back yard with no insurance.
They came to America just like our grandfathers and great grand fathers, we didn't ask for government assistance and handouts and subsidized programs...we worked 50, 60, 70 hours a week to feed, cloth and take care of our families.
Why do they think just because they come here that the people that live here already need to take care of them. It's crap. Get a job or go home. If you have no insurance, do what everyone else does, go out and find a better job that offers insurance. I am so sick of this.
Your comments prove that you know very little true information about the Latino communities in America.
I can't believe a rn with an extensive education can be dumb as a box of rocks. Obviously you should know that no hospital, etc., can refuse to treat someone. I live in Arizona where identity theft along with kidnapping is the major crimes reported. Why? because of the large ILLEGAL immigrants in the state. You think you know a lot about latino communities, bet you go to your cushy job in a nice medical center and go to your middle to upper income neighborhood after work. I would not appoint you as an expert in the latino community. Elitist period. If you check many of the ssn's presented a large number will be stolen. But they're not checked are they? NO
For those of you complaining about illegal immigrants, please read the article. This organization helps LEGAL immigrants get health insurance. Nothing in this article says anything about illegals.
Bloodsuckers!!! Go back where you came from!!! Do you really think we believe that "THESE" people are legal? B.S.!!!!
I believe they would have to acquire the ability to read first, thanks for the clarification.
I wonder if YOU are an immigrant?....First of all, this is the United States of America, not LATIN America...Not Mexico...I'm sure in that community there are poor whites and others who need help too and its discrimitory to make an organization helping only one group, just its name says it all.....and I wonder how many of those "immigrants" had forged papers?...Latinos have but one agenda, to infiltrate and conquer from within!
If you feel so strongly about health care for your people GO back to those countries and FIX the PROBLEM there first....instead of bleeding legal Americans of their needed health care to take care of your own.
And without a doubt YOU know that Americans have had enough and THINGS will change and here's how it will play out!
1. The Feds will finally enforce immigration laws.
2. If the Feds will not enforce the laws the individual states will.
3. and finally, If neither of the above do their jobs, the American people will take matters into their own hands!
This is what will happen because this country can't support the rest of the world.
VOTE come November and 2012
Nowhere does it say legal.
It just talks about immigrants.
Patricia is a feel good liberal who just loves these immigrants.
Personally, I don't believe that most immigrants are a net plus to our economy, not when we have to pay for bilingual education, educate children in the country illegally, translate official documents (including ballots) into Spanish, require hospitals to have translators on call, etc.... When we had the wave of European immigration, they did it all themselves. No special government programs. No handouts. That's the way it should be.
However, Bill, the article most certainly does qualify the immigrants as being legal:
What a bunch of cry babies! that don't even argue with any valid points other than bringing a bunch of the same nonsense over and over. Read the damn article and argue over the issue without bringing all this racist crap into the picture.
tcko33 - I don't know if you were saying it was Patricia or me that was an immigrant, but honestly you have no way of knowing that. My last name is Shield, before I was married it was McGee, when I was born it was Cain. I am about as white bread as you can get, but I live in south Texas about 15 minutes from the border. I have spent my entire life here and let me tell you if gives you a very different perspective on the issue of immigration, legal or illegal.
Bill2431 - See Barry-NJ's post.
Barry-NJ - I respectfully disagree, at least as far as the school part goes. Our educational system is the best way to get the children of immigrants (legal or not) to assimilate. Their parents may never be fluent in English and may keep a heavy accent. That is true of immigrants period, not just Hispanics. These kids, however, will grow up here and be taught with the rest of us, will be like the rest of us. They will grow up, graduate, and hopefully go to and graduate from college. They will become doctors and lawyers, teachers and mechanics, managers and business owners. We are making an investment now in children that are going to be our future.
"With these results in hand, Abreu started the Latino Health Program in East Boston in May 2006 to help legal immigrants with lawful permanent resident status – so called green card holders – navigate and enroll in Massachusetts health insurance program."
Learn to read, speaking of "box of rocks", but that would be another discussion; the school system and its failures to produce results, for which a number of you are striking examples.
I am not in favor of providing public benefits to illegal immigrants, but that is not what this article was about!
This is why most of the states are in the mess there in is because the United States has become the melting pot for poor countries. How may other countries take in these people, I'll bet not too many take in the amount the United States does. We have children and families that are born and raised here and there forefather were born and raised here that are going hungry and are sleeping in cars. With this economy the way it is these families and children should come first to help them get back on there feet. With the foreclosures at around 1.2 million this year and unemployment still double digit. It is amazing how these people especially the asian, indians, african &etc can come over here and get a small business loan wihout any problem, but yet if you are an american born and raised here then forget it, it would not happen. Another problem is all these citizens that are adopting children from other countries. What about our orphanages here where children need adopting into good families.
Ladybugger. You are so ignorant that it is almost impossible to begin. Those poor countries were, are exploited by America and corporate America thus perpetrating the slave status they are forced to live. We overthrow rightfully elected governments that are more to our liking, even if they are vicous dictators. America, like it or not, stole the lands from Mexicans and now to add salt to injury they have the guts to call them "illegals." Some crooks, criminals decided to try to steal Texas from Mexico, and those thieves, amoral people are viewd as "heroes" instead of the white trash they were. The economy is not tin the shape we are due to "illegals." We are in this way because corporate America with a big help from our governments allow them to steal Joe Public blind. Hispanics don't steal anybody's job. That is just a racist ploy to try to put the blame where it doesn't belong. FYI, not even blacks will do the jobs that Hispanics do. Everywhere I go and is a menial job we are talking about, take a hard look around and how many whites you see and if is real menial and doesn't pay that good, you won't even see blacks. Go to the fields and see how many whites or blacks are there working? None. And what do you think the government does to keep the poor, poorer? They bring them from Mexico and other poor countries to work as "guest workers", which just another word for legal slavery. As senator Harry Reid of Nevada said to the slogan peddlers like you, "You are entitle to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. Being a little bit educated is not going to kill you.
If a job is too poorly paid to attract Americans, it is because the employers know that they don't have to pay an attractive wage because they can fall back on illegals. This is depresses wage rates for legals and illegals alike. If that labor pool wasn't available, employers would be forced to pay a true market rate. That would be better for everyone.
Any job can be filled at the right price. Or automated or eliminated. Many labor-saving devices in the home today are the result of the fact that domestic help is too expensive for most people.
Sure at the right price that would include lawsuits for hurt backs, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and what not. Only lawsuits you get, if at that, is when a poor immigrant is killed in a job, and that is usually paid off under the table cheaply if at all. People get a life. The folks running the large corporations are the ones that are robbing you blind, not the poor person seeking a roof over his/her head and a safe place to live. There wouldn't be any drugs coming across the border if people wouldn't be buying them over here. Stop buying drugs, and the drug flow would end immediately. Make drugs legal, and drugs would stop flowing across the border.
Good answer Saturno....and awe can also ask the U.S government to stop selling those weapons to those "third world countries"...one more thing if you people want a better job...go to college and get a degree, don't blame others for the things you dont have...'we are the sum of our own actions'
everybody.....call and write your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. they are the ones who need to hear from you all, and often!!! tell your families, tell your friends, call and email your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. do it today and do it often!!!
You are five times wrong. Were have you been? Congress only listens to money and since money talks, the only people our elected representatives listen to is corporate America. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours is their motto and we, the people and by the people are up the creek without a paddle. Try explaining to those Texas representatives, the republicans how we need all the things we need and they always vote with corporate America. I gave up writing to the tea partiers. They will never listen to Joe Public. The only time they care for Joe Public is when the poor and minorities have to go to war and once they comeback, if ever, they are housed in mice, cockroaches infested hospitals trying to save moeny for those who bribe our representatives. I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what is going on, but then again, you don't have to sound so stupid saying stupidities so many times.
everybody.....call and write your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. they are the ones who need to hear from you all, and often!!! tell your families, tell your friends, call and email your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. do it today and do it often!!!
everybody.....call and write your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. they are the ones who need to hear from you all, and often!!! tell your families, tell your friends, call and email your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. do it today and do it often!!!
everybody.....call and write your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. they are the ones who need to hear from you all, and often!!! tell your families, tell your friends, call and email your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. do it today and do it often!!!
everybody.....call and write your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. they are the ones who need to hear from you all, and often!!! tell your families, tell your friends, call and email your congress-persons, both state representatives and federal government representatives. do it today and do it often!!!
5 “And I will come near to YOU people for the judgment, and I will become a speedy witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing falsely, and against those acting fraudulently with the wages of a wage worker, with [the] widow and with [the] fatherless boy, and those turning away the alien resident, while they have not feared me,” Jehovah of armies has said.
Malachi 3:5
Divide and conquer, divide and conquer that is the way the ruling elite of the NWO has always enslaved the people of the world. They control everything, especially the media, through the media they control how we feel about each other (hate, love, WAR). It's not the immigrants themselves that are destroying this country, they are just the tools used. So how do we fight something that we don't really see? I don't know, maybe be aware of the reasons they are showing what they're showing on the TV and the media in general. It would be nice to have the type of politicians we had in the 1950's, the politicians of today seem to be following some hidden agenda that only they know about. We need to put God in our hearts more now and not be suckered into playing they're hate......This goes for all of us!
reply to mark grecko, the pertinent word in the scripture you quoted is resident, alien resident which means legal resident. Not a horde of illegal, diseased, line jumping arrogant, criminal ,vermin that feel they have the 'right" to break all this countrys laws , ignore common decency and then be pandered to by a bunch of useless politicians and jerkoffs intent on their own sleazy agendas. I am a legal green card holder, I went through all the hoops that are required to be jumped through in order to enjoy the benefits of this beautiful countryand the people of this country have never "turned me away". Your charge is unbased and as a scripture quoter should you not be intent on upholding all of Gods word, not just the pieces that suit you'
There is an echo in some of these comments, of certain publications in Weimar Germany in the 1920's and '30's, demonizing segments of the population. The result was Holocaust.
Of course, that could never happen here. ....Right?
These bleeding hearts want to sign up illegals for taxpayer supported services when there are Americans struggling and paying to support these programs when they could so vitally use their resources better to help themselves and their own families.
Too bad.
I'am sorry but I can't feel sorry for these people and their health needs. I live close to a health facility here in Omaha NE, south Omaha to be exact and they cater to the needs of all these Mexicans and probably illegals. The cars parked out in front of this place are newer type and not real cheap models, it's not just one or two cars but many. Omaha has all sorts of programs for these people, but my NATIVE PONCA indian people have always had to fight for our rights. We maintain our cultural ways, our diginity and respect for ourselves and our people. We've suffered many many things from the racist, bigoted people who make up this country. We've always been the invisible people of this continent, and we continue to be so. However the indigenties and genocide this government try to use on our Indian people will never work. For what ever reason Our CREATOR gives us the strenth to go and will open his plan to us one day. This illegal thing is only one of many punishments this country will face. Ponca elder.
You need to dry your tears Yuru, that was a long time ago. You have every chance that everybody else in USA so grow up
Extremely good point- if this government owes anyone, it is the native americans who were the victims of genocide, robbed of their lands and culture. We need to stop this BS of allowing the children of illegal immigrants to be american citizens. We are running out of space. One thing for sure, if the indigenous native people were still running the show, we would not be in the mess we are now. They took care of their own, never took more from the earth than they needed and sure as hell weren't telling everyone else how to live.
Yuri - the GA whistleblower is just a redneck hillbilly from the south - there are whites who actually care about the theft of your land and the genocide committed against you and yours! I hope your people NEVER forget what was done to you and maybe, somehow, some way get your lands back - ALL of it. Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong, no matter how much time has passed and no matter how many IGNORANT jackasses tell you to grow up and get over it.
I wonder whose whistle the whistleblower is blowing on - we all know most conservatives are repressed homo's...
They do not deserve any help. If you tryed to get free health care in Mexico you would be thrown out on your ear. If you are caught in mexico as an illegal resident you will do 10 years hard labor and then get deported.
Oh, those poor, poor immigrants... now where's my hanky...
All you illegal immigrants out there. We are not crying for you. So claims of prejudice and racial profiling is not going to get you anywhere. Your messin with our children and grandchildren future. And we are mad all of us Americans BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN. We stand on our own two feet for our children and grandchildren. So stop feeling sorry for yourselves and decide that it is time to go back home and straighten your own govt out. Protest them a little. If you want to stay do it right and stop expecting us to do it for you and your children.
Patricia Larraga MHCL.RN ..... you and your mindset is one of the reasons the usa is broke, above average crime rates in the usa, ie: drugs, rape, murder, robbery ect. why dont you complain about mexico's immigration laws? what benifits do the mexican government give to their illegals??? "NONE! I bet your latino! and I would bet you want all illegals to have "free" healthcare, foodstamps, and a ss card right? you make me sick! Illegals are a slap in the face to the immigrants that followed the law and did their time filing the papers, and paying the fees, being investigated, and earned their green card by being responsible people... you could learn something from them! so stick a thermometer up your butt, and put a bandage on your bleeding heart!
Yep, blame poor immigrants for this country's problems. A mindless war started by the Republicans using false information is the main reason we are where we are. Not to mention that they also started the housing market bubble where everyone with a get rich overnight scheme jumped in and now suffer. Idiots always like to blame the people that can't defend themselves.
You are delusional! Clinton, Kerry, and Gore supported the war! And the male prostitute Barney Frank pushed to get people who couldn't afford them loans. He and Jimmy Carter- the second worst President after Obama>
Well, the 3 job hard working American whose child or themselves gets a catastrophic illness with no insurance or their insurance won't cover the cost of the illness or even give a discount or reduced cost of a life saving treatment ? While the child in the next bed born to an illegal in this country gets the treatment they need for little or nothing. The white/black/browm American gets the shaft losing their homes and all of their possessions trying to pay for their child to survive for the absolutely needed care to live. Boy that's rich. Go home to your own countries and repair your own governemnts. If you want to stay here legally, work 3 jobs, better yourselves, learn our English Language, get a job that provides healthcare and stop taking from the true American whatever color they may be as they aresupporting you through our taxes.. And I think we need a white American Day as a holiday. Most other races have their days but oh my the outcry of racism could you just hear the uproar. Our own people need good cost effective medical care NOW! Pay your own way or go back home. The gravy train has to be stopped. All of this sounds harsh but it's the reality of our country. They print false papers, steal SS numbers from those who have passed on, etc. Don't believe it? It happens all the time.
As long the immigrants are legal with their own ssn and a green card, they should be able to get health care. The problem is that millions of illegals have stolen the ssn numbers of American citizens.
However, I take issue with the millions of illegal immigrants in my country. The citizens, repeat citizens, of this country have the right to say who can become a citizen. Just because you are from Mexico or countries south does not mean you have a god-given right to come to the US. If you are here illegally, you deserve nothing.
To Patricia Larraga MHCL.RN, most Americans are hardworking. The Latino illegals have bankrupted the State of California, as well as overloaded the health and educational systems of our country. While illegal Latinos come here and have countless children, often coming across our border when ready to deliver, and thus having an American child. But you know, there is a push in this country to make sure that those who are here illegally, have children here, those children will not be citizens. Latinos have dumbed down the educational systems in this country. While speaking two languages is a good thing, parents who are here and never learn to speak English speaks of contempt for this country. I am all for getting rid of Spanish language signs and instruction in schools. Hispanics who are here illegally deserve nothing.
Perhaps it is time for all Americans to boycott any businesses that are run by Latinos or those with suspected illegals. Or maybe we should be citizen arrests of suspected illegals.
I am an educated American with a Ph.D. and I have seen what the illegals have done to our school systems. I see a lawsuit coming from many, many Americans over resources, the validity of using our resources for illegals when we have citizens in need. And, Americans are angry enough to get the job done this time.
I do not understand why illegal Latinos do not try and bring change in their own countries. But that is the problem with the Latinos. Check history and you will find just a few countries in Latin America that are stable for any length of time. And, don't blame the Americans. Blame yourselves. Latinos might be hardworking, but always at the expense of someone else. Let the greedy Americans suffer also. Why pay a worker a decent wage when you can pay an illegal under the table and less?
I know, perhaps Americans should mine our southern borders. And, round up the illegals. It can be done, Eisenhower did it in the 1950's.
We need to get HR1868 (birthright to citizenship) out of the committe stage and passed. This would stop the auto citizenship for children born of illegal parents.
Massachusetts senate has passed a bill prohibiting illegals funding for subsidized housing, in state tuition breaks. we are just waiting for the house to do their part.
Jezzel, I am sorry, but did you just say you want a BOYCOTT against Latino Storeowners? So if the company is owned by Latinos(which would mean a license granted by the state, and proof of Identification, and I must supply all requirements for owning a business), we are to be discriminated against?
A) You are a Nazi. B) You are also a liar, as there is no way with that grammar and syntax that you have obtained a legal Ph.D. in the U.S. I know people who didn't graduate High School who have a better understanding of the written English language than you do. What was your doctorate in, Basket Weaving? C) You are also ignorant and closed minded. Latinos didn't bankrupt California. The Housing Bubble Did. I don't know many Illegal Latinos who were running Mortgage Firms from the tomato farm they were probably working there in California. So please accept some responsibility. You do remember what that is right? D) Where is your family from? Because unless they came over on the Mayflower and went into immediate cryogenics, there is no way you don't have an ethnicity inside you who came to this country and didn't know the language when they got here. Who had to learn the language. That normally takes a whole generation for a people to become fluent to the language.
Jezzell, what Cracker Jack box did you get your Ph.D from? Well if you want to start having English only you probably have to get rid of most of the State names and change to English only, for instance:
The name Arizona is the Spanish interpretation of "arizuma," an Aztec Indian word that means "silver-bearing." It's also based on the Pima Indian word arizonac, meaning "little spring place." Many state names trace their origin to native American Indian languages. See 50 States - Name Origins.
Dumb down our education system? Don't blame immigrants and Spanish speakers for you getting your degree--aberrations happen in any system.