http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/AmPhys&S ... ng2005.pdfConsider 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 obsessivecompulsive
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.
[ This Message was edited by: empathy on 2005-12-01 13:44 ]