Posted on 07/28/2006 9:21:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
With two teenage daughters at home and triplets still in diapers, Angela Magdaleno's family overflowed from a one-bedroom apartment in South Los Angeles that they strained to afford.
Diapers had to be changed 15 times a day, feedings held every three hours. One triplet, 3-year-old Alfredo Jr., needed special attention because he was born with liquid on his brain and partially paralyzed.
Even simple events — like going to the store — required complex orchestration.
And that was before the quadruplets arrived.
On July 6, Magdaleno gave birth to two boys and two girls, drawing national media attention as a bewildered mother of 10 (with nine living at home). Now, she and her husband, Alfredo Anzaldo, 44, must figure out how to provide for everyone on Anzaldo's maximum pay of $400 a week as a carpet installer.
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Both Magdaleno and Anzaldo are illegal immigrants, settled for years in an immigrant enclave. Magdaleno has the same number of children as her parents, who were peasant farmers in Mexico. ...
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Neither Magdaleno nor her husband speaks English, though she has been in the United States 22 years and he 28. Even her teenage daughters speak mostly Spanish; their English vocabulary is limited.
Yet all of Magdaleno's 10 children are U.S. citizens. The triplets receive subsidized school lunches. All the youngsters have had their healthcare bills covered by Medi-Cal, the state and federal healthcare program for the poor.
Alfredo Jr. had been hospitalized all his life until recently. He's had three state-funded brain operations and will require several more, the family said. The couple receive $700 in monthly Social Security payments to help with his medical needs.
"I thank this country that they gave me Medi-Cal," Magdaleno said. "There's nothing like that in Mexico."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Well, as long as they take care to vote Democrat, everything will turn out all right... ;)
I'm Speechless!!! 22 years and still can't speak english??
Some people are going to say the problem is that babies born here are ctizens.
I think the problem is that we didn't enforce the immigration laws for the 22 years she has been here.
you don't need new laws when there are perfectly good laws not being enforced.
...maybe we should buy them a new house too while we are at it. A shame we can't do more for out Mexican brothers and sisters...../sarc off/........
bttt
Good night....I'm going to go drown myself now.
"What we weren't able to do in many years in California," Alejandra said, "we've done quickly here.
"We're in a state where there's nothing but Americans. The police control the streets. It's clean, no gangs. California now resembles Mexico — everyone thinks like in Mexico. California's broken."
And for the guy who asked how I know Alejandra is - was - illegal...read the article:
In 1984, hoping to make more money to send home, the girls were the first Magdalenos to cross illegally into the United States.... Over the years, their eight siblings followed them. Her sister Alejandra was the first to leave. In Los Angeles, she and her husband were barely able to make ends meet. As in Mexico, "there was little work and it's poorly paid," she said.
In Kentucky, Alejandra picked tobacco. The work was hard and she didn't know the language. But soon, life improved. Over the years, she invited her siblings to join her.
ping
My brother-in-law, whose parents immigrated here legally from Mexico 50 years ago, can't wait to retire so he and my sister can flee California. Their middle-class neighborhood has been flooded with illegals who crowd a dozen or more adults and children into a single-family dwelling, keep chickens and goats in their back yards until the animals are seized by Animal Control, search my sister's garbage cans for anything they can use (I've seen this myself), and generally turn their nice little town into a slum.
The Democrats have a bonanza here--millions of people who will be easy to manipulate through their poverty and ignorance, and whose lifestyles (dropping out of school, having more children than they can afford, refusing to learn English, etc.) will make it impossible for most of them to raise themselves out of poverty.
22 and 28 years in America and can't speak English. That's ridiculous! My Russian-speaking wife practices her English every night. Of course, she has no choice. There is no "Press '2' for Russian" in the United States. I often joke with her that she's wasting her time studying English. If she wants to survive in the USA she needs to learn Spanish!
"22 years and still can't speak english??"
Just goes to show you can't fix stupid.
BTTT
What did you think you were doing by posting this stuff?
Is this some Democrat idea of humor? Or is this just another "blame Bush" piece?
When we gather to eulogize you, where will this little lump of significance fit?
It's a wonder to realize that you stay up nights to reugurgitate stuff like this in your daily duties as official poster boy. ( you are closely watched...no one is losing track of you.)
Yup. (Sometimes if we didn't laugh, we'd cry.)
What is your issue anyway?
( you are closely watched...no one is losing track of you.)
and what the heck does that little crack mean?
Careful...I'm watching you closely...
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