A illegal alien mom held up in a Chicago area church is tugging on the heart strings of America.
"She is the face of the movement," said Emma Lozano, executive director of the Chicago immigration-rights group Centro Sin Fronteras, who was at the church with Arellano.
"Elvira Arellano, 31, is not exactly the type of undocumented person that causes us concern", Said Poffrono Thursday.
"She was working as a cleaning woman when she was nabbed. No one can blame her for fleeing her brutally corrupt homeland with hopes of earning much higher wages. She was not suspected in any criminal activity other than her disregard for U.S. immigration law and Social Security fraud. You could say she is suspect of victimless crimes.”
Poffrono took a sip of his Celestial Seasons Green Tea and a hearty tug on his pipe...
“We hold that it's unjust to jail people who commit victimless crimes. We are highly skeptical of legislation that recognizes the notion of society being victimized collectively. Such law opens too many avenues for severe Government encroachment into our lives. Furthermore, this single mother's courage is impressive to say the least and that in itself makes her a desirable candidate for U.S. citizenry."
"On the other hand, we find it a tad disconcerting that Arellano showed flagrant disregard for U.S. law while simultaneously exploiting it. She entered this country illegally (ignoring the law) yet timed her labor to take place in America (evoking the law to her favor). Such a scheme requires intelligent planning and total lucidity.
Arellano indeed deserves commendations for her achievements to date. Even so, it is foolhearty to allow this illegal alien momma to remain here for even one more day. Let us not set a precedent that emboldens the anchor baby scheme. The last thing we need is a flood of pregnant undocumented rushing the border.
Just the other day a pregnant woman was hurt badly attempting what Miss Arellano ."
Poffrono got a phone call from his Mexican girlfriend and abruptly ended the blog session.
Illegal Momma
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Silverio emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker.
He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 – all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" – an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.
But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child, Cristian.
The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit, they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies."
While President Bush says the U.S. needs more "cheap labor" from south of the border to do jobs Americans aren't willing to do, the case of the Silverios shows there are indeed uncalculated costs involved in the importation of such labor – public support and uninsured medical costs.
In fact, the increasing number of illegal aliens coming into the United States is forcing the closure of hospitals, spreading previously vanquished diseases and threatening to destroy America's prized health-care system, says a report in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
"The influx of illegal aliens has serious hidden medical consequences," writes Madeleine Pelner Cosman, author of the report. "We judge reality primarily by what we see. But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly than what is seen."
According to her study, 84 California hospitals are closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens and their non-reimbursed tax on the system.
"Anchor babies," the author writes, "born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income."
In addition, the report says, "many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease."
While politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this country, the report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent
What we need is a constitutional amendment requiring that a domesticaly born baby have one parent who is a citizen. If both parents are aliens then the baby should be deemed alien also.
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