The costs of anchoring this...

More immigration math!

As Sandi suggests, readers, especially Californians and taxpayers fed up with increased cost and declining quality of healthcare, should remove breakables from reach before reading this...

American hospitals welcome “anchor babies.” 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.”

In 2003 in Stockton, California, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General Hospital’s maternity ward were anchor babies, and 45 percent of Stockton children under age six are Latino (up from 30 percent in 1993). In 1994, 74,987 anchor babies in California hospital maternity units cost $215 million and constituted 36 percent of all Medi-Cal births. Now they account for substantially more than half.

Consider the story of one illustrative family to show how reality is the sum of the seen and the unseen. The Silverios from Stockton, California, are illegal aliens seen as hard-laboring fruit-pickers with family values. Cristobal Silverio came illegally from Oxtotilan, Mexico, in 1997 and brought his wife Felipa, plus three children aged 19, 12, and 8. Felipa, mother of the bride Lourdes (age 19), gave birth to a new daughter, her anchor baby, named Flor. Flor was premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator, and cost San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, Lourdes plus her illegal alien husband produced their own anchor baby, Esmeralda. Grandma Felipa created a second anchor baby,Cristian.

Anchor babies are valuable. A disabled anchor baby is more valuable than a healthy one. The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding. Flor gets $600 per month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. Cristobal and Felipa last year earned $18,000 picking fruit. Flor and Cristian were paid $12,000 for being anchor babies. This illegal alien family’s annual income tops $30,000.

Cristobal Silverio, when drunk one Saturday night, crashed his van. Though he had no auto insurance or driver’s license, and owed thousands of dollars, he easily bought another van. Stockton Police say that 44 percent of all “hit and runs” are by illegal aliens. If Cris had been seriously injured, the EMTALA-associated entitlement would provide, as it did for the four-year rehabilitation of a quadriplegic neighbor illegal alien. Rehabilitation costs customarily do not fall under the title “emergency care,” but partisans clamor to keep paraplegics in America rather than deport them to more primitive facilities south of the border.

My mechanic employs an illegal I shall call Umberto, who said when I came for my truck, “Dr. Cosman, my children lost their shadows! Help me!”

What does this mean? Umberto has five disabled children: two are autistic, two have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and one has oppositional defiant disorder, with additional obsessive compulsive disorder. All take California government-supplied medications, including Ritalin. The autistic children had “shadows” or personal attendants, one per child, under the federal Individuals with Disability Education Act of 1975 (IDEA). The program provides a shadow, plus an “individual education program” that cost about $30,000 per year per child. Umberto and his wife dine out alone each week, thanks to California-provided respite-care babysitters.

Illegal aliens have translators, advocates, and middlemen supplied by immigrants’ civil rights groups or by Medicaid. MediCal in 2003 had 760,000 illegal aliens, up from 2002 when there were 470,000. Supplemental Security Income is a nonmeans-tested federal grant of money and food stamps. People qualify easily. Scams, frauds, and cheats are rampant. In one clinic, 300 people diagnosed as “mildly mentally retarded” all had the same translator, same psychiatrist, same symptoms, and similar stipend. Fraud is an equal-opportunity employer that flouts America’s generosity to the feeble, the crippled, and the poor. Illegal aliens have powerful legal facilitators who litigate and lobby for “Open Borders” and for welfare benefits for all who cross onto America’s soil. Open Borders proponents imperil America’s sovereignty by obliterating distinctions between legal immigrants and illegal aliens, and between American citizens and all other people of the hungry world.

Among the organizations directing illegal aliens into America’s medical systems 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 George Soros’s Open Society Institute; the Migration Policy Institute; the National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights; and the Southern Poverty Law Center. And there are more.

Cases of “permanent disability” have burgeoned because its definition is vague [a 12-month problem that interferes with work: see Disability Income, 42 U.S.C. 423(d)-(1)(A), and Supplemental Security Income, 42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)(3)(A)]; flexible, thanks to the case; and individualistic, thanks to government regulations. Mental, social, behavioral, and personality disorders are included. More than 500,000 “mentally disabled” children on psychotropic drugs for ADHD and ODD have incentives to bad, bizarre behavior. Children’s disability stipends are called “crazy money,” for crazy behavior.

Drug addiction and alcoholism are classified as diseases and disabilities. Disability CodeDA&Ahad in 1983 only 3,000 stipend recipients, but in 1994 exploded to 101,000. In 2003, between 250,000 and 400,000 got lump-sum grants of disability money via SSI. When Linda Torres was arrested in Bakersfield, California, with about $8,500 in small bills in a sack, the police originally thought it was stolen money. It was her SSI lump sum award for her disability: heroin addiction.

Immigrants on SSI, including legal aliens, refugees, and illegals with fraudulent Social Security cards, numbered a mere 127,900 aliens (3.3 percent of recipients) in 1982. By 1992 the numbers expanded to 601,430 entitled (10.9 percent of recipients). In 2003, this figure was several million (about 25 percent of recipients).

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) proudly announced that it garnered for immigrants expensive cancer treatments, prenatal care, and critical health services by means of its litigation. Sometimes NILC worked in collaboration with lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Though the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation reduced all welfare payments to all recipients nationwide, NILC cleverly managed to restore to its constituency of legal and illegal immigrants: $12 billion in Supplemental Security Income, and more than $800 million in food stamps. For many illegal aliens, America is land of the victim and home of the entitled.

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 10 Number 1 Spring 2005

Comments

[Denita TwoDragons]

Cali iasn't the only location with its collective tongue up the illegal's behinds--I see it all the time here in Texas, too. Especially around the Austin area, which is a HUGE underground railroad for illegals schlepping into the States. It's sickening to think that my family has to work hard to get a FRACTION of what these freeloaders get for nothing! And worse, it's money coming out of OUR POCKETS!

Generosity is great, but this is government-sanctioned highway robbery, and it MUST STOP!!

--TwoDragons

[jak]

And when were we gonna take up (what's left of our) arms?
Time for the minutemen to start some shooting. Starting with the aclu.

[Independent]

It's time for another revolution. The liberals, the ACLU, the unions, the deomocrats -they have got to go.

[Steel Turman]

SING IT !!!

'This land is THEIR land'

... we have passed the point of solution in this ... might as well learn Spanish now...

'Esta tierra es SU tierra'

Loses something in the translation que no?

[Jakester]

I'm so sick of these "hard working, law abiding undocumented workers" coming around and sucking welfare dollars while breaking the law. It's time to shoot the a=wipes here who made it all possible!

[Jakester]

Perfect solution to anchor babies: tie them around their mothers' necks and drop in the ocean!

[Shep]

The greed of business owners is fueling the lack of defense of our nation from invasion. Republicans=Business, and that seems why the president sees nothing, hears nothing, and the Hispanic vote is getting significant, so the prez DOES nothing. There has to be a way to make consequences for all involved. Mexican-Americans must not attach to Mexican-Mexicans, and should instead cling to American-Americans, because they are going to have to pay too.

[mbranca]

Steel Truman:

The people who made this cituation possible is us. By allowing our elected representatives to ignore the situation and not do anything about we have collectively made this a reality. Until we stand with one voice and not be cowed by the chants of rascist or xenophobe nothing is going to be done until it reaches the point of armed revolt against the invaders. The main problem is not our representatives it is us!!

[tallglassofmilk]

The problem is, the majority of representatives that we elected to represent us are not doing so.

[Doggy Diaries]

I guess my comment on one of your later posts about illegal alien children being stranded would have been more appropriate on this post.

Damn, all I can say is WTF?!? I work my arse off to get ahead in this world, but really, all I needed to do was become an illegal alien and have all my needs provided for by the taxpayers. Talk about America the great. I guess it's a greater country for illegal aliens than it is for citizens.

Anyone else know of a sane country in ths world where bullsh*t, kindergarten antics like this don't go on? Maybe those of us who are sane should go in search of the "new world" if it's getting to the point where the only people in this country who seem to have any rights are the illegals. I hear we might be able to inhabit Mars one day ...