Posted on 05/22/2007 9:46:20 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Docs journal reports hospitals being closed, previously vanquished diseases being spread
Cristobal Silverio emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker.
He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 – all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" – an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.
But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child, Cristian.
The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit, they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies."
While President Bush says the U.S. needs more "cheap labor" from south of the border to do jobs Americans aren't willing to do, the case of the Silverios shows there are indeed uncalculated costs involved in the importation of such labor – public support and uninsured medical costs.
In fact, the increasing number of illegal aliens coming into the United States is forcing the closure of hospitals, spreading previously vanquished diseases and threatening to destroy America's prized health-care system, says a report in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
"The influx of illegal aliens has serious hidden medical consequences," writes Madeleine Pelner Cosman, author of the report. "We judge reality primarily by what we see. But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly than what is seen."
According to her study, 84 California hospitals are closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens and their non-reimbursed tax on the system.
"Anchor babies," the author writes, "born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income."
In addition, the report says, "many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease."
While politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this country, the report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent.
Not being insured does not mean they don't get medical care.
Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985, hospitals are obligated to treat the uninsured without reimbursement.
"Government imposes viciously stiff fines and penalties on any physician and any hospital refusing to treat any patient that a zealous prosecutor deems an emergency patient, even though the hospital or physician screened and declared the patient's illness or injury non-emergency," says the report. "But government pays neither hospital nor physician for treatments. In addition to the fiscal attack on medical facilities and personnel, EMTALA is a handy truncheon with which to pummel politically unpopular physicians by falsely accusing them of violating EMTALA."
According to the report, between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services became unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals verge on closure, the author writes.
"American hospitals welcome 'anchor babies,'" says the report. "Illegal alien women come to the hospital in labor and drop their little anchors, each of whom pulls its illegal alien mother, father, and siblings into permanent residency simply by being born within our borders. Anchor babies are citizens, and instantly qualify for public welfare aid: Between 300,000 and 350,000 anchor babies annually become citizens because of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."
Among the organizations directing illegal aliens into America's medical systems, according to the report, are the Ford Foundation-funded Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice, and Pro Bono, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the National Council of La Raza, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Migration Policy Institute, the National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Because drug addiction and alcoholism are classified as diseases and disabilities, the fiscal toll on the health-care system rises.
When Linda Torres was arrested in Bakersfield, Calif., with about $8,500 in small bills in a sack, the police originally thought it was stolen money, explained the report. It was her Social Security lump sum for her disability -- heroin addiction.
"Today, legal immigrants must demonstrate that they are free of communicable diseases and drug addiction to qualify for lawful permanent residency green cards," writes Cosman, a medical lawyer, who formerly taught medical students at the City University of New York. "Illegal aliens simply cross our borders medically unexamined, hiding in their bodies any number of communicable diseases."
Many illegals entering this country have tuberculosis, according to the report.
"That disease had largely disappeared from America, thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful modern drugs such as isoniazid and rifampin," says the report. "TB's swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60 percent of those infected because of new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico. This Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major anti-tubercular drugs. Ordinary TB usually is cured in six months with four drugs that cost about $2,000. MDR-TB takes 24 months with many expensive drugs that cost around $250,000 with toxic side effects. Each illegal with MDR-TB coughs and infects 10 to 30 people, who will not show symptoms immediately. Latent disease explodes later.
TB was virtually absent in Virginia until in 2002, when it spiked a 17 percent increase, but Prince William County, just south of Washington, D.C., had a much larger rise of 188 percent. Public health officials blamed immigrants. In 2001 the Indiana School of Medicine studied an outbreak of MDR-TB, and traced it to Mexican illegal aliens. The Queens, New York, health department attributed 81 percent of new TB cases in 2001 to immigrants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ascribed 42 percent of all new TB cases to 'foreign born' people who have up to eight times higher incidences apparently, 66 percent of all TB cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam."
Other health threats from illegals include, according to the report:
- Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis or "kissing bug disease," is transmitted by the reduviid bug, which prefers to bite the lips and face. The protozoan parasite that it carries, Trypanosoma cruzi, infects 18 million people annually in Latin America and causes 50,000 deaths. The disease also infiltrates America's blood supply. Chagas affects blood transfusions and transplanted organs. No cure exists. Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected.
- Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy now is endemic to northeastern states because illegal aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico.
- Dengue fever is exceptionally rare in America, though common in Ecuador, Peru, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Mexico. Recently, according to the report, there was a virulent outbreak of dengue fever in Webb County, Texas, which borders Mexico. Though dengue is usually not a fatal disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever routinely kills.
- Polio was eradicated from America, but now reappears in illegal immigrants as do intestinal parasites, says the report.
- Malaria was obliterated, but now is re-emerging in Texas.
The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons report includes a strong prescription for protecting the health of Americans:
- Closing America's borders with fences, high-tech security devices and troops.
- Rescinding the U.S. citizenship of "anchor babies."
- Punishing the aiding and abetting of illegal aliens as a crime.
- An end to amnesty programs.
What if the criminal aliens, crooks, terrorists and narco-gangsters don’t want amnesty? Why should they? Wouldn’t they have to pay taxes? How can you force criminals to become citizens? Why would you? If these people really wanted to be real citizens they wouldn’t use phony ID’s.
NO AMNESTY for Employers or Employees!
This part:
“Because drug addiction and alcoholism are classified as diseases and disabilities, the fiscal toll on the health-care system rises.
When Linda Torres was arrested in Bakersfield, Calif., with about $8,500 in small bills in a sack, the police originally thought it was stolen money, explained the report. It was her Social Security lump sum for her disability — heroin addiction.”
Is what get’s me... That’s just WRONG.
But, hey, this is OK with the Democrats (and many Republicans)
Today, there was a report that TB has infected a student at Vallejo High School in California. Of course, the news will not report the identity of the person with TB or if it is the drug-resistant strain.
If we deport them Lettuce will go up to $10.00 a head!
(ijit OBL canard)
KYW-TV in Philadelphia did a story last night that was supposed to be heart-warming but it infuriated me. It was about a Latino woman who found out she had cancer after becoming pregnant. Rather than have an abortion and begin cancer treatment immediately, she chose to have the child and risk her own life. Of course, she is an illegal alien and speaks no English. The baby was born 3 1/2 months premature and needs all kinds of expensive neonatal care, and now the mother is on aggressive anti-cancer treatment in the hospital. All I saw was hundreds of thousands of dollars in hospital costs that my taxes would end up paying. And I knew damn well that the only reason this woman risked her own life to have the baby was because it is now an anchor baby, and she will eventually be able to bring the rest of her family here to sponge off of us as well. Infuriating!!!!
Solidarity. Not a phone will work, not a light will go on, no buses, no school, no retail sales.... NO ANYTHING till we get some results on this!
bttt
Remember Jessica Santillan, the illegal teenager who received two heart/lung transplants and died anyway?
I was dogpiled on for suggesting that her six transplanted, inefficacious organs could possibly have saved six American lives.
I wonder how much heroin 8500 bucks could buy.
LOL. Sorry. I know it’s not funny, but it’s either laugh or go insane.
Oh I think I’m on the edge of insanity now - between the illegals and the gas prices, I’ve about had it. lol
Seriously though, it really ticks me off that our tax dollars pay for this kind of thing. A friend of mine who was in Vietnam got benefits because he contracted Hepatitis C - somewhere in the findings was that “hey, we did what we had to do in a bad situation, visiting the whores was just part of what we had to do...” amazing. But then again, SSI also covers HIV infected homosexuals so I guess it’s about the same thing. I don’t like it, I don’t agree with it, but until people in this nation STAND UP and say NO MORE, everything will continue to go downhill.
I honestly wish there were enough people (white, black, yellow, brown, whatever) who were willing to protest the way all of the Mexican people did - maybe that’s what it is going to take to get Washington’s attention. I know there are many more of us who are fed up than there were people marching for Cinco DeMeyo or whatever it was they were marching for... problem is, we are all so bogged down with making a living, we let everything else go. I think that’s how the feds have got us... work work work, so you don’t have the energy mentally or otherwise to realize or want to deal what they’re doing in Washington.
Well that’s my 2 cents worth anyway.
BTTT for later reading.
vicosal, how’s this for proof of what I was talking about. Just because you’re in denial doesn’t change the facts that illegals are bringing diseases into America!
The 14th Amendment was meant to resolve the citizenship question of former slaves as a special case and not to allow any freeloader lawbreaker a free ticket to the U.S. There is nothing in the constitution that decrees that the taxpayer has to support any other citizen or non-citizen parent of a citizen or ensure that those citizens grow to their majority in this country. Ship em home with their parents and they can decide on citizenship when they reach 18.
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