Posted on 12/29/2007 10:07:04 AM PST by thestob
He is at the heart of a great culture war in Texas – and the nation, credited with bringing us prosperity and blamed for abusing our resources. How should we deal with this stranger among us?
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Deprot his / her SORRY A$$
Send him back and make him follow the law if he wants to come here.
The 19 (sob) from 9/11 were (whimper) all of those things — and so much more.
My niece is an OB/GYN who took her pre-med at HAAAAVVAAAAADDD! Needless to say, she emerged from that experience a FLAMING, BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL.
Upon completing her medical training at yet another liberal university, she interned at a hospital near the border in San Diego.
It was there that a mystical transformation took place: She began to connect the heavy deductions from the GROSS EARNINGS for which she busted her butt for as many as 72 virtually sleepless hours in a row with the taxis and jalopies regularly sliding to the curb in front of the ER.
Many of them contained pregnant illegals who won the race to deliver their babies HERE. She caught many of those babies who, under the current — and ERRONEOUS — interpretation of the 14th Amendment were IMMEDIATELY NEW AMERICANS. The mother – who, obviously, could not care for the child if she were back in her native land — could not be deported now even if the INS and the political bosses WANTED her deported . And as the mother of a new US citizen, the woman could remain here for about as long as she cared to – and that was usually for life.
Most of those patients were welfare recipients and the deliveries were charity cases: The bill for the hospital’s – and HER services – were routinely spread over the bills of those who DO pay. And what the other users of those facilities don’t cover went back to the taxpayers.
And since my niece was now a taxpayer, they were costing HER.
And while she may not exactly be a libertarian, today she’s now a LOOONNNNG way from Haaaavaaaaaad.
And just so the bleeders who might see this don’t think me some sort of ethnocentric bigot, I submit this problem is MORE than just about illegals.
Before my oldest daughter was born at University Hospital in Cleveland in 1967, I sat in the main lobby as welfare mother-to-be after welfare mother-to-be shuffled through the door to the maternity ER for THEIR free deliveries.
Before WE could take OUR daughter home, I had to cough up over 3 grand. And that was a great deal of dough in 1967, especially for a guy just out of the USAF.
As I wrote the check, I remembered the magazine article I’d recently read by a hospital administrator from Massachusetts who admitted that all US hospitals practiced a form of medical Marxism, spreading the costs of care for indigents over the bills of those who DO pay for care. Given the move to socialism here, it probably will never be otherwise: Not counting Byzantine complexity and confusion, government produces – and has — NOTHING unless it first takes it from some PERSON. SOMEBODY ALWAYS PAYS.
Look, I have a big enough problem paying for the 3rd and 4th generation slackers and welfare bums who were BORN here.
It’s time we stopped paying for those who were not.
What a steaming load! I noticed no one at DaMN is putting THEIR name on this vomit.
Damn, lookit all those Anglos /sarc
Your collection has: (1) a bunch of interesting "pure" Americans, (2)some people with "foreign" names who are stated to be "Americans" and (3)others of other nationality, who may be legal or illegal. How is this supposed to impact policy or attitudes?
We had lots of notorious Italian, Irish, Jewish, German, (and "original english stock") criminals throughout our history. The real question is how to get useful good ones and keep out the most bad ones -- just as it has been throughout our history.
But just running pix of some "furriner-looking" criminals (mixed in with some who are not) doesn't seem to advance the argument much.
The Dallas Morning News ...
disgusting NYT wannabe clone.
I may be wrong, but I think you’ve posted this before and I love reading it every time :)
2007 DMN Texan of the Year: Finalists
12:00 PM CST on Saturday, December 29, 2007
Garrett Boone
The co-founder of the Container Store had nothing to gain by taking on TXU’s plans for 13 new coal plants. But he knew that pollution comes at a price and helped form Texas Business for Clean Air.
Cathy Bonner
Moved by cancer’s deadly touch, she was determined to do something about it. She led an effort to create the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute and then lobbied for funding, which came when voters agreed to provide $3 billion.
Alberto Gonzales
The only thing more spectacular than his rise to attorney general was his incredible fall. He led the Justice Department down a blatantly political path and made an indelible impact – but not one to be proud of.
Robert Gates
In him, we now have a defense secretary who not only expects scrutiny but welcomes it. His contribution to a more cooperative strategy in Iraq and rational thinking in Washington have made a huge difference here and abroad.
Craig Watkins
Texas’ first black district attorney has brought bold ideas and an innovative approach to the job. He has made a national name for himself by ensuring that innocent men walk free and that Dallas County’s career criminals are locked up.
Jerry Jones
There’s the knockout Cowboys team he manages, the new stadium he’s overseeing, the Super Bowl he helped bring to the region. You may not be able to afford tickets to see his events, but you can’t deny his impact.
Sharon Keller
Presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, she denied a request by attorneys trying to file a last-minute appeal of a death row inmate, saying “We close at 5.” With those four callous words, she made a caricature of Texas justice.
Carol Wise
She and her team of researchers at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children found the first gene linked to scoliosis, capping a decade’s worth of lab work, interviews and painstaking analysis and opening the door to better treatment.
Bill Mullican
Texas’ top water planner is an expert at explaining the intricacies of drought preparation in a way that brings about results in Austin and Washington. A new plan requires vigilance, but thanks to him we have a road map.
Instead the DaMN declares the criminal illegal alien border and immigration law felons to be “Texan of the Year.”
There is not a single marble left in their collective bag.
I noticed that also. Any Texans that want to lead the way & contact ALL advertisers. Best yet never buy this rag.
I worked foreign prosecution homicide cases in Mexico for thirteen years. I found that about half of the people that committed homicides over here had warrants for their arrest in Mexico. Often for homicide. Many would flee to a border town like Tijuana so they could jump across the border if things got too hot. A large percentage of the homicides were drug related and committed against other illegal aliens.
You mean they couldn’t find one iddy biddy real citizen of the US that really does something admirable?
The author of this article is a coward for not attaching his/her name to this disgusting article.
I searched the entire article. Nowhere was there mention of:
gangs
drugs
drunk driving
Identity theft
murders
child molestations
robberies
rapes
Emergency Room/hospital closures
over crowded schools
depeletion of our Social Service System
the billions of dollars wired to Mexico every year
the trashing of our land
the defiant attitude towards citizens
FLEEING any possible confrontation
The list goes own and own and own...............
Good thing Putin isn't a Texan.
Different day same old liberal butt kissing by the news media.
This piece needed a barf alert.
We are being over-run down here and nobody wants to do a thing about it, or if they do, they are reviled and castigated by others. When I came here almost 39 years ago, Dallas was a pretty nice place. Now I don’t go there for ANY reason. Illegals are everywhere. I don’t deny that we may need these people to work here but if that’s the case then let the LEGAL applicants come here, not just let thousands stream across our unprotected borders. If you break the law just to come here, why would you suddenly start obeying the law once you’re here? I see illegals all day long in my job. Can’t deny them services and they always pay with $100 bills. Yet they always claim to be paying taxes. I doubt it. They are being paid with cash under the table. That’s why they have $100 dollar bills lining their pockets.
I’m sick of it.
From the DaMN website...
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or go their from the site itself http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgi
I also found this, it seems to be the Editor that ramrods the decision process...
Ask the Editor: Editorial Writer Rodger Jones
The editorial board’s choice for 2007 Texan of the Year – the Illegal Immigrant – surprised even me, and part of my job is playing midwife to the annual birthing process. It’s a choice worth debate and worthy of defense. Here’s how we got there.
12/19/2007
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/askeditor/stories/123007dnediasktheeditor.5e0fe976.html which contains the email link to George Rodrigue, managing editor of The Dallas Morning News. asktheeditor@dallasnews.com
I will see what I can find as far as the major DaMN advertisers.
Yes!
I would like to solve ... "2007 DAMN Texan of the Year"
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