Networking: Securing illegals' records

Migrant farm workers flow into Salinas, Calif., during the lettuce-harvesting season, just as once portrayed, long ago, by novelist John Steinbeck. The difference is that now, the workers come to California's Central Valley from central Mexico, not the Oklahoma dust bowl, as in "The Grapes of Wrath." And although they are in the United States illegally, have no money or health insurance and don't speak English, they do have access to consistent medical and dental care, as a result of a new wireless networking initiative, experts tell United Press International's Networking. By Gene Koprowski

Well, isn't that special.

It's real, real special.

From the article:

The project is an outreach effort of Clinica de Salud, a clinic for low-wage earners and mobile workers, near Sacramento...

A number of local technology companies, including Sonic Wall and the Alvarez Technology Group, have collaborated with the local health clinic to set up the remote healthcare facility.

Though the patients are illegal aliens, the records are stored digitally and are protected under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act laws, meaning that the privacy of the patients is maintained.

Illegals have access to medical and dental care

And everything else in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. They basically own the towns of Watsonville, Salinas and Castroville.

But they're just a symptom of the problem. The reality is that the farmers and foodpackers here can't compete with foreign competition, so they have to have low wage people, producing niche market, boutique foods.

If the land use laws were changed, the Pajaro and Salinas valleys would probably turn into silicon suburbs and beachfront resorts overnight. The only thing standing in the way of that is the Enviro/Leftist no-growth leftovers in the Santa Cruz county Board of Supervisors, and the growers and packers themselves.

Eventually the reality of a bunch of sub-minimum wage industries hanging on for dear life on one of the most beautiful coastlines on earth will collapse on itself: it isn't "sustainable", to use their own terminology. The population and financial pressure will overcome it.

In the meantime, for a few more years, Mexico's castoffs will continue to live on the beach, and get freebies from the simpering class that controls politics here.

But not forever. Example business near all of this stupidity: Sanderling's at Seascape Resort . Great place to eat, stay if you can afford it....

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