Why are the states paying for illegals to have babies? Because the federal gov't wouldn't fund it? Why is it even an issue? Send them home to have their children. They and the children they are carrying are not citizens and do not have the rights to any gov't services except deportation.
Can I revoke my citizenship to get free medical care? It's not like theyll throw me out of the country...
People should not be allowed to immigrate unless they can show that they have medical insurance.
now funding...
Here in San Diego we tax payers have been funding anchor kids for years and years. Mandated by the Federal Gov.
That is mega millions of dollars a year.
Has a government program ever come under its estimate?
They're getting off pretty good. The price for an illegal alien's baby in Georgia in my County costs $6000. Then we give the baby Medicaid the first year of its life and spend another $6000 -- and that's IF there are no complications.
With complications -- the price tag goes much higher. And many of the illegals don't get pre-natal care (since the payment from Medicaid only comes after the baby's born for the delivery and hospital costs), so there are a higher percentage of illegals' babies in NICU.
Time to pull the plug on "free" medical care to illegals and make them pay at least some of the cost. Or they can go home and have their babies there.
We pay illegal immigrants to breed same as the Europeans pay Muslims to breed. And if some are legal, why are we importing uneducated, non English speaking, impoverished people?
Thanks for nothing George Bush!
Anyone else have trouble with those numbers? Do they even administer pregnancy tests before giving benefits or is something more sinister going on? The fetal mortality rate is horrifying. What was the purpose of that program again?
Those responsible for the estimates need to be fired for gross incompetence.
My wife is a prenatal genetic counselor around the L.A. area. At the clinics she's assigned to, she estimates about 1/3 are illegal immigrants, and among this 1/3, at least 95% are completely paid for by Medi-Cal.
To make things worse, her company is requiring her to take 3-hour night classes in Spanish twice weekly at Berlitz so she'll eventually be able to provide counseling for these people without having to arrange for a translator every time she gets one of them as a patient. This is on top of her normal 50-60 hour work week.
This has really infuriated her, since she herself is an immigrant who worked hard to become fluent in English when she came here 10 years ago. She now makes a point of asking such patients why they don't learn English. She says the response is usually along the lines of "whatever, lady" or "umm, I don't know."
Funding the creation of new Democrats with your tax dollars.
Here's an interesting example. My mother-in-law was born in Mexico, emigrated to the US around 1951, and held a green card for 50 years, rather than applying for US citizenship. She did this because she had inherited some property from her family in Morelia, Michoacan, and she would have had to relinquish her title had she not been a Mexican citizen, since only Mexican citizens could hold clear title to real estate. After 9-11 she found the security hassles for a Mexican passport holder to be too irritating and so she sold her property in Mexico and became a US citizen in 2002.
Can you imagine the outcry if US law made it illegal for legal permanent resident aliens to own real estate in the US?
Good luck trying to keep up with Mexican women giving birth. You'd have a better shot with mice or rabbits. And since it's "free", we'll soon have every bed filled, and three years later, all these anchor kids will be crowding the pre-preschools for "disadvantaged" children and then schools have to be built for them in elementary and high school, until they drop out and join the gang of their choice. It's the taxpayer-funded gift that just keeps on giving.
The more they spend the more we save. I love the stupid BS that comes out of these people's mouths.
Well...apparently NOT.
susie
Nothing new at all. We tried to put an end to that in California with Prop 187 in 1994. What we got is a lot of opposition from the Big Tent, Open Borders crowd in the RNC. They were perfectly happy when Gray Davis and Judge Pfaelzer conspired to kill the law and pervent it from being reviewed by a higher court.
The GOP has known about the anchor baby problem for decades. The national leadership doesn't want to change it any more than the Democrats do.
The government didn't correctly estimate the cost of a FREE service paid for by taxpayers???? Oh My G-d!!!!! This must be about the 497th time in a row. Its hard to have sympathy when they do it themselves. We can only hope that the politicos who wrought this crap get their duly deserved butt kicking one November way down there in Arkansas.
It's cheaper than a couple premature babies cost of NICU nursery for six weeks $300 000 each, the cost of special education and medicines for a baby with retardation or cerebral palsy...so one kid could cost a million in a couple years of life. And since the kid is a US citizen, he has the right to treatment.
Ditto for caring for infectious disease. One case of whooping cough or measles brought up by an illegal from Mexico could spread to other "undocumented" kids who didn't get shots, and next thing you know you have an outbreak. One in a thousand end up with measles encephalits and brain damage.