New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez took office in part based on her hard stance against illegal aliens. After being given 1930 Census records by reporters, however, she has now acknowledged that her grandparents illegally came to the USA from Mexico. In the meantime, another family member of President Obama has been arrested as an illegal alien.
The Republican Martinez led the fight to repeal what she has called “the dangerous practice” of granting driver’s licenses to undocumented migrants to “protect the people of New Mexico.”
Martinez’s acknowledged the new evidence on a radio show and admitted for the first time that “I know they arrived without documents, especially my father’s father.”
After riding out a controversy over the illegal status of his aunt (who was allowed to stay in the United States despite violating past orders), President Barack Obama has been informed that an uncle has been arrested as an illegal alien. To make matters worse, Obama Onyango, who also has a driver’s license, has a history of drunk driving. Obama’s uncle was released “quietly” from custody despite his illegal status and record.
While President Obama is hardly responsible for such relatives (particularly on the side of his father who effectively abandoned him as a child), these stories are likely to magnify the immigration debate. The White House seems to be embracing such a debate in an appeal to the Hispanic community, but I think this can only hurt Obama further in the polls.
Source: USA Today
One Paramedic’s perspective:
For 30 years, my rescue mates & I have had the dubious advantage of front-row seats, experiencing firsthand the continuing flood of humanity across our southern border. The results are some truly ugly medical consequences.
We all, I suppose, tend to determine reality by what we see. Less seen is more insidious, more expensive, more frightening than you might imagine. Field laborers working hard in crummy conditions for low wages – those who feed their families, and pursue the dream? Undoubtedly. No question. Unseen? The end-game of their free medical care – the off-the-chart volume of which has closed 89 California hospitals. (1) You may want to go back and look at that number again. A major cause of these closures is the Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act.
If you’re unaware of EMTALA, it behooves your education to read up.
What most see is Health Care Reform advocates saying that 43,000,000 lives are at risk – those who have no health insurance.[2] What is unseen is that medical insurance does not mete out equal medical care. The uninsured receive urgent care in ERs, under EMTALA. Also unseen is the percentage of uninsured who are illegal residents, stepping to the front of the line in your local ER, when their condition is more serious than yours. No one knows how many there are. But if there are 10,000,000, they constitute one out of four of ER patients.
EMTALA requires each ER to treat any “emergency” associated with cough, headache, hangnail, cardiac arrest, herniated lumbar disc, drug addiction, alcohol overdose, gunshot injury, automobile trauma, HIV-positive infection, mental problem, or personality disorder. The definition of emergency is vague enough to include almost any condition. Any patient requesting care must be screened and treated until stabilized, or discharged or stabilized for transfer, whether or not insured, whether or not “documented,” and whether or not able to pay.
A woman in labor must remain to deliver her child. A premature baby can run up $90,000 in care in a surprisingly brief period. Babies born to non-resident parents provide a lucrative residency pathway. The babies instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits. This causes volcanic eruptions in Medicaid costs and skyrocketing stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income.[4],[5]
The typical Paramedic in a typical U.S. city delivers 3-5 “emergency” babies in a career. In greater San Diego, my partner & I delivered 29 in five years. 23 were of non-resident, Hispanic mothers.
What is seen is the oft-polite non-resident at the Emergency Room with a cough. In the absence of a legal entry health screen, he has never been examined for contagious diseases. By murmur and shrug, we grant non-residents health passes that we have never tolerated among the citizenry – fatal diseases that American medicine vanquished decades ago. Our inner cities are now a haven for drug resistant strains of tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, Dengue Fever, and Chagas Disease.[6],[7]
EMS teams now endure regimens of vaccines previously unheard of. Some of us are unknowingly toting diseases back to our families.
High-tech ACLS ambulances have degenerated into free, rolling medical offices.
Los Angeles County Trauma Network was once one of America’s finest EMS organizations. Consisting of 22 hospitals, high-tech equipment, superior emergency MDs, surgeons, specialists, nurses & technicians, it offered 24/7 emergency care. Today, most trauma hospitals have left the Network, along with physicians & surgeons.[8]
Illegal aliens perpetrate a considerable volume of violent crime, and when someone bleeds, we get called. [9],[10] “Dump & Run” victims dropped at the ER entrance are generally connected to drugs & gangs. Patients in need of advanced care for stabbings & gunshot wounds glut Paramedic calls for service. The volume of these calls puts an undeniably dent in what used to be a pretty decent response time for residents in need.[11],[12]
Sanctuary cities such as Los Angeles with high crime and immigrant gangs, are losing their hospitals to the ravages of un-reimbursed care.[13]
In the end, our nation’s schizophrenic posture toward those who violate basic international law, combined with our childlike fervor to please even those who snidely abuse our generosity, leverages our compassion against ourselves.
So the status quo – from this Medic’s perspective – is unsustainable.
(a little reading material)
1. Chong, J-R. Hawthorne Hospital to Shut Doors. R.F. Kennedy Medical Center Cites Financial Problems for Closure Sixth ER in La County This Year. Los Angeles Times.
2, John Goodman, Gerald Musgrave, Devon Herrick’s Lives at Risk: Single Payer National Health Insurance Around the World. Lanham and New York: National Center for Policy Analysis.
4, Wright, CM. SSI: The Black Hole of the Welfare State. Cato Policy Analysis 224.
5, Peter J. Ferrara’s Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction. Washington: Cato Institute
6, Lee B. Reichman’s Time Bomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. New York: McGraw Hill Professional http://www.TBtimebomb.com
7, Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague. New York: Penguin,
8, Roark AC. Surgeon Tires of Effort to Plug Gap in Trauma Care-Hospitals: A doctor on call in emergency rooms. Los Angeles Times.
9, Weber T., Ornstein C, Landsberg M. King/Drew Trauma Unit Faces Closure. Drew Proposal Assailed. Los Angeles Times
10, Michelle Malkin’s Invasion. Washington: Regnery.
11, Jon E. Dougherty’s Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border. Nashville: WND Books.
12, Roark AC. Surgeon Tires of Effort to Plug Gap in Trauma Care-Hospitals: A doctor on call in emergency rooms. Los Angeles Times
13, Heather Mac Donald’s The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave. New York: Manhattan Institute
This to inform you of a person living and working in the United States illegally.
The names that this person assumes are as follows:
Gabriela Sanchez (her niece), Karla P. Durazo (her aunt), Patty Durazo (her sister),
Julieta Sanchez (her aunt), Patty Sanchez (her sister/her niece) Rocio Sanchez (her
sister), Mayra Viramontes (her cousin), Karen Durazo (her cousin),Kenya Durazo (her
cousin), Karina Sanchez (her cousin).
All of the names assumed by her can be substantiated through her facebook account
which is under the name Gabby Sanchez.
Her Employer is: Dr. Larry Stark
3201 W. Peoria Ave # A-100
Phoenix, AZ 85029
Her assumed Social Security # is her Aunt’s Soc. Sec. # 611-32-7757 (Karla P.
Durazo) who actually lives in California.
She drives a pathfinder with AZ lic. # AHT4587
Her address is: 2220 W. Mission Ln. #1095 (which is in Larry Starks name /
Phoenix, AZ 85017 co-signed for)
SRP Acct # 919-863-000 (which is in Larry Starks name)
Her Phone # 602-628-3116 (which is in Larry Starks name)
This young woman makes it easier for other illegals to obtain medications including
narcotics and evade citizenship tests through the Doctors office that she works in.
Also supplying them with false identification and documentation.
I am very concerned about the illegal activities (Document Fraud, Identity Theft,
Conducting crimes in America) that she is involved in. Please address the above
issues as soon as possible.
Concerned Citizen
Mike S.
“To me the greatest threat posed to the anti-immigration people is that we are reaching a point here where Latinos are beginning to become a dominant force in the US. This is threatening to many in the previous “majority”
BINGO!!!
@FU-NW
You need a scenario in which the governor has direct benefit?
Let’s say the governor found out that she was the product of rape. In that scenaio, her existence in this world would be due to that rape. In effect, she is a direct beneficiary of that rape.
Do you think she would be in favor of rape? Would anyone be saying “Wow! I can’t believe she would be in favor of a law that deters rape?”
“I am aware that here in the US it was very common for the Jews to deny their own cultural heritage”.
AY,
You are quite correct and this is still true today. When any person is a minority in a new situation there develops among some a sort of Stockholm Syndrome, where they try to fit in with the majority. When it comes to skin color though the minority is precluded from “passing”, but
even so, like Clarence Thomas, still be in captivity to the perceived majority.
Since much of the Jewish immigration came from Europe, with centuries of pogroms and rapes, many look anything but Mid-Eastern. Unlike Blacks, Native Americans, Asians and others with ethnic features, many Jews could and did “pass” as WASPS.
To me the greatest threat posed to the anti-immigration people is that we are reaching a point here where Latinos are beginning to become a dominant force in the US. This is threatening to many in the previous “majority”. It upsets the prejudice that somehow Anglo-Saxon culture is the most civilized of humankind and therefore destined to rule. The flip side is the narrow view that other cultures have little to offer intellectually.
The sad truth of course is that Hispanic and all Asian cultures have a long history of intellectual development and much to offer to us all, if we only took the time to learn about them.
I just don’t see a “wow” factor in an imaginary conclusion drawn in a scenario of a rather gaseous what-if.
So if her Grandparents were still alive(R they) she’d have essentially have signed and promoted laws that would have them deported just to get into office. Talk about politicians selling their own family down the river. WOW just WOW!
You have to expect this sort of thing when your state is plunked down between Arizona and Texas. It’s kind of like being mistakenly put into the influenza ward in 1918- it’s not your fault, but you will be lucky to escape with your life anyway.
As to the Presidential relatives, I agree with Blouise. All the recent Presidents’ kin have been, shall we say, a bit eccentric here and there. The Presidents, themselves, leave something to be desired. The last five haven’t exactly been Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Roosevelt. More like Curley, Moe, Larry, Shemp, and “Brass” Bancroft.
Well, when she is up for re-election, the voters of New Mexico will make the final call on this debate. Stay tuned.
NoWay
1, September 9, 2011 at 10:29 am
“If I was sponsoring a Bill against rape, and found out that my grandfather had raped someone; do you think that would make me reconsider my position? Do you think that would somehow make me now think that rape is OK?”
What offensive drivel. I cant believe you even made that despicable and utterly bogus comparison.
The governor has benefitted immensely from her grandfather’s illegal immigration into the USA. So yes, it is very hypocritical of her to be so anti-immigration.
Daiki,
Say what?
Arizona, New Mexico… What’s the difference? (Look at the URL!)
Mike A.,
You said: Mike Appleton
“I still maintain that the fear of illegal immigration is primarily based upon cultural, as opposed to economic, considerations.”
I think that you have it correct….I am aware that here in the US it was very common for the Jews to deny their own cultural heritage…It was a shaming if someone found out….I do not know this personally….only ancestrally as what has been shared…
Mexica,
I find it strange that the Pueblos refuse to recognize the Mexican Heritage….Do you….You better contact them and inform them how wrong they are and to correct the entries on the web…..
Mexica, you said this on: 1, September 9, 2011 at 8:29 pm
“When I read stuff like this I always laugh out loud. Pueblo culture is tied completely into pre-Columbian Mexican culture. I suppose Anonymously Yours believes that the fictive US/Mexican border has existed since time immemorial. However, the Puebloan people are FROM Mexico….in fact they part and parcel of Mexico’s indigenous heritage…in point of fact they are Mexican outliers and share/participate in Mexican culture. I have always found it hilarious that for some odd reason people in the US refuse to understand this very simple fact.”
I have to LOL as well….I usually cite my sources…This time I did not as time did not permit….
Here it is for you: “http://www.e-referencedesk.com/resources/state-early-history/new-mexico.html”
Check it out….really….It starts off like this:
New Mexico Early History
First Early Inhabitants of New Mexico
Early history examines the archaeological record that tells the story of the first inhabitants of New Mexico. Learn about the history and culture of the first inhabitants, and what lessons it might teach us about the early history of New Mexico.
Then it goes into what I posted….
Then it goes into this….
The Clovis-Paleo Indians later discovered the eastern plains of New Mexico, the same expansive romping grounds of the dinosaurs around 10,000 B.C. The river valleys west of their hunting grounds later flooded with refugees from the declining Four Corners Anasazi cultures.
Sometime between A.D. 1130 and 1180, the Anasazi drifted from their high-walled towns to evolve into today’s Pueblo Indians, so named by early Spanish explorers because they lived in land-based communities much like the villages, or pueblos, of home. Culturally similar American Indians, the Mogollón, lived in today’s Gila National Forest.
So if you have a problem with what was posted….You might want to check your source before you start berating…..Just saying….
If you are correct….Then, a whole lot of history is being mis-taught…which I do not deny that it is possible…Now that I have shown you where I got mine….You wanna do a source check and share where you got yours?
I did check your statement that they were from Mexican descent….Guess what…
The Pueblo people are located primarily in New Mexico, however, at one time the Pueblo’s homeland reached into the states of Colorado and Arizona. Pueblo people rooted in this region of the southwest are descendants of an indigenous Native American culture that has established itself over many centuries.
I will agree that at one time this area was a possession of Spain, then the County of Mexico…..I seem to have missed that they claim Mexican Heritage….Will you please cite your source….
Here is the Official site for the Pueblo Indians….
http://www.indianpueblo.org/19pueblos/index.html
I did learn something tonight…there are 19 Pueblos Indian Cultures…..
The 19 Pueblos of New Mexico: Acoma | Cochiti | Isleta | Jemez | Laguna | Nambe | Ohkay Owingeh | Picuris | Pojoaque | Sandia | San Felipe | San Ildefonso | Santa Ana | Santa Clara | Santo Domingo | Taos | Tesuque | Zia | Zun
Go for it Mexica….Tell me more…
Anonymously Yours notes:
Here is the Official History of the earliest inhabitants of New Mexico:
New Mexico First Early Inhabitants
c. 25000 B.C. – Sandia people leave earliest evidence of human existence in what is now New Mexico.
c. 10000-9000 B.C. – Clovis hunters roam area in search of mammoth, bison and other game.
c. 9000-8000 B.C. – Folsom people flourish throughout Southwest at the end of the last Ice Age.
c. 10000-500 B.C. – Cochise people are first inhabitants to cultivate corn, squash and beans, the earliest evidence of agriculture in the Southwest.
A.D. 300-1400 – Mogollon culture introduces highly artistic pottery and early architecture in the form of pit houses.
A.D. 1-700 – Anasazi basket makers elevate weaving to a high art, creating baskets, clothing, sandals and utensils.
A.D. 700-1300 – Anasazi culture culminates in the highly developed Chaco Civilization.
A.D. 1200-1500s – Pueblo Indians establish villages along the Rio Grande and its tributaries.
When I read stuff like this I always laugh out loud. Pueblo culture is tied completely into pre-Columbian Mexican culture. I suppose Anonymously Yours believes that the fictive US/Mexican border has existed since time immemorial. However, the Puebloan people are FROM Mexico….in fact they part and parcel of Mexico’s indigenous heritage…in point of fact they are Mexican outliers and share/participate in Mexican culture. I have always found it hilarious that for some odd reason people in the US refuse to understand this very simple fact.
I still maintain that the fear of illegal immigration is primarily based upon cultural, as opposed to economic, considerations.
If money can buy the race it looks like Rick Perry has it…..and this is just how much he has actually received even before announcing….
Deep pockets back presidential hopeful Perry
The three-term Texas governor reported $2.1 million in contributions through a group called Texans for Rick Perry as of June 30, according to a Texas regulatory filing.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-usa-campaign-perry-idUSTRE76J4N020110720
Swarthmore mom
Do you know Orly? You both sound like you are Perry fans.