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    Should the Health Care of Illegal Immigrants Be the Responsibility of Taxpayers?

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    COMMENTARY | Ohio is not a state you would think faced a lot of illegal immigration issues. Even though the Buckeye State sits far from the Mexican border, taxpayers are still forced to foot the bill for the care of anchor babies. The most notable, controversial and expensive case came to a resolution today in Cleveland. Two illegal immigrants were granted emergency green cards so they could care for their severely disabled teenager. The girl would soon be 18 and needed a legal guardian due to a debilitating illness.

    Rowena Gonzales and Jimmy Siglos came to Ohio as AmeriFlora staffers on temporary work visas in 1992. The couple fell in love and have lived in the state illegally ever since. The couple opted to stay in Ohio until after the baby was born and then return to their native country.

    Ohio taxpayers footed the bill for prenatal care and the delivery. Gonzales should not have had access to public aid since she was not a United States citizen. The ease in which illegal aliens could apply for entitlement program benefits without fear of deportation was demonstrated in the Project Veritas undercover sting at Ohio Medicaid offices earlier this year.

    The baby was unfortunately born with severe birth defects and has endured a lifetime of difficulty breathing and gaining nourishment from a feeding tube. As tragic as the story is, that does not deflect from the growing problem of illegal aliens working in America without paying taxes and enjoying the benefits of the public school system and taxpayer funded programs designed to temporarily aid the poor. For nearly 18 years Ohio taxpayers have paid $10,000 per month for the girl's healthcare needs. The couple has a younger daughter who attends public school in Columbus and most likely is the recipient of the free or reduced lunch program. How did the the family enroll the younger child in school without proof they were in Ohio legally?

    An immigration judge in Cleveland granted green cards to the adults based upon a clause for emergency humanitarian grounds. If the parents were not allowed to stay in America the children would become wards of the state unless they moved back to the Philippines with the parents. The case sets a dangerous precedent for illegal immigrants with disabled children to claim humanitarian status due to the lack of quality or affordable medical care in their native country.

     

    19 comments

    • KillTheMessenger  •  Hemet, United States  •  7 mths ago
      As an American citizen, I am required to follow the law or I will be fined and/or imprisoned. Why am I being discriminated against in "my own" country???
      • Big Deal !! 7 mths ago
        Because you as an fine upstanding American Citizen will put the needs of others ahead of your own. It's not discrimination, it's charity. Granted, on a HUGE scale.
      • Pete 7 mths ago
        Amendment XIV Section 1 must be rescinded.

        Join Numbers USA. They are for ENFORCING our immigration laws, lowering the work visas, anchor babies mandatory use of e-verify, etc. They have free faxes that you can send to the White House, your Congress & Representatives They grade each candidate on immigration issues. It’s easy & free, please join!!!
        Check out Numbers USA.
        Feel free to repost.
    • AJ  •  San Diego, United States  •  6 mths ago
      This is a "SHAME" the true citizens of this country need to unite againts this unjust invasion and abuse of the American system by the trash that is spilling out of Mexico , we the tax paying people of the United States are sick and tired of taking care of all these illegals and their problems. SEND THEM ALL BACK TO MEXICO
    • OpinionatedAmerican  •  7 mths ago
      I guess the word Illegal means nothing anymore.
      • Pete 7 mths ago
        Amendment XIV Section 1 must be changed to bring it in line with other countries..

        Join Numbers USA. They are for ENFORCING our immigration laws, lowering the work visas, anchor babies mandatory use of e-verify, etc. They have free faxes that you can send to the White House, your Congress & Representatives They grade each candidate on immigration issues. It’s easy & free, please join!!!
        Check out Numbers USA.
        Feel free to repost.
    • not me  •  Santa Clara, United States  •  7 mths ago
      NO, NO, NO. I can not afford health care for myself! Send illegal immigrants back to their own countries for health care.
      • Pete 7 mths ago
        Amendment XIV Section 1 must be rescinded.

        Join Numbers USA. They are for ENFORCING our immigration laws, lowering the work visas, anchor babies mandatory use of e-verify, etc. They have free faxes that you can send to the White House, your Congress & Representatives They grade each candidate on immigration issues. It’s easy & free, please join!!!
        Check out Numbers USA.
        Feel free to repost.
    • rendezvous  •  7 mths ago
      $10,000 a month ... and that is just ONE family in ONE city in ONE state. Multiply that by the millions of illegals here who have taken advantage of the American taxpayer ... with our government's permission! Disgusting and enraging!
      • rendezvous 7 mths ago
        Pete: I receive emails from Numbers USA and have been active with them for years. Thanks for the advice. Hopefully, others will participate, too!
    • LaRee  •  7 mths ago
      Sooo sick of reading these stories,we don't get anything free & we pay into the system all our lives.We need to take this country back folks.Get off your butts & join Numbers USA.You can send free faxes to the government telling them to get off their butts & enforce our immigration laws.Deport all illegal aliens,we should not have to compete for jobs with ILLEGALS!!!Our troops are coming home from Iraq,where are they going to work?????
      • Big Deal !! 7 mths ago
        A FAX LaRee? Is it 1992 again?
      • Pete 7 mths ago
        Amendment XIV Section 1 must be changed.

        Join Numbers USA. They are for ENFORCING our immigration laws, lowering the work visas, anchor babies mandatory use of e-verify, etc. They have free faxes that you can send to the White House, your Congress & Representatives They grade each candidate on immigration issues. It’s easy & free, please join!!!
        Check out Numbers USA.
        Feel free to repost.
    • Jack  •  Woodstock, United States  •  7 mths ago
      NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • oldman1  •  Liberty, United States  •  7 mths ago
      What about caucasians civil rights they are violated all of the time and we just sit back and take @#$% screw illegal immigrants. The word illegal means they are breaking th fricken law prosecute them not sue a state that is fed up with them ruing their state. SEND THEM HOME WE dont want them here We being americans not mexicans look at the polls people in this country are sick of them. They know english they just wont speak it @#$% our citizens cant find jobs because of all of the drug smuggling grannies that up here stealing our jobs. Gee whiz mister pres ever wonder why so many Americans are out of work becaus of all of the mexicans that are working here and not paying any fricken taxes or not paying for their medical bills there little rugrats being born here and oh you are citizen that is a crock of #$%$ They shove their flag in our face can you imagine what would have happened if japanese immigrant would have shoved the rising sun in a returned home marines face during WW2 I believe he would have had it cranked up his butt. If you want to live here that is great BECOME A CITIZEN THEN OR GO HOME, no one said you cant be proud of your heritage I am but I dont fly an Irish flag on my house I fly an AMRICAN FLAG BECAUSE I AM AN AMERICAN!!!!!!!
    • TequilaJoe  •  Chicago, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Of course not. Not when we are in a very bad recession as well as too many Americans not being covered too. Why should we cover illegals when US natives are not covered? Anyone who suggests this should try to get medical treatment in Mexico as an illegal immigrant there.
    • nunya Biz  •  7 mths ago
      If the parents were not allowed to stay in America the children would become wards of the state unless they moved back to the Philippines with the parents.

      and what is the problem of deporting them ALL to the phillipines? to bad for the kids,but the parents shouldn't be allowed to continue leeching off of us for their care.go home and leech.
    • Sf Tparty  •  7 mths ago
      Perhaps all ALL American citizens should suddenly go to their county hospitals and claim they are undocumented workers and have no documents but demand free health care!
      If Illegal immigrants can do it why cant American citizens do it?
    • Doc  •  Laramie, United States  •  7 mths ago
      NO! They are criminals and must be sent back to Mexico immediately. I am sorry for their child, but what quality of life is it? Why should we be supporting criminals for 18 years?
    • dasbof  •  7 mths ago
      I am 45 and worked since 14 paying taxes the whole way. I have never used any "services" such as ambulance, fire, hospital, police, unemployment, welfare, food stamps, etc.. It sickens me when I see people abusing the system this way.
    • Pete  •  7 mths ago
      Amendment XIV Section 1 must be rescinded.

      Join Numbers USA. They are for ENFORCING our immigration laws, lowering the work visas, anchor babies mandatory use of e-verify, etc. They have free faxes that you can send to the White House, your Congress & Representatives They grade each candidate on immigration issues. It’s easy & free, please join!!!
      Check out Numbers USA.
      Feel free to repost.
    • oldman1  •  Liberty, United States  •  7 mths ago
      I come for visit, get treated regal,
      So I stay, who care, illegal?
      I cross border, poor and broke,
      Take bus, see employment folk.

      Nice man treat me good in there,
      Say I need to see welfare.
      Welfare say, "You come no more,
      We send cash right to your door."

      Welfare checks, they make you wealthy,
      Medicaid, it keep you healthy!
      By and by, got plenty money,
      Thanks to you, American dummy.

      Write to friends in motherland,
      Tell them come, as fast as can.
      They come in rags and Chebby trucks,
      I buy big house with Welfare bucks.

      They come here, we live together,
      More welfare checks, it gets better!
      Fourteen families moving in,
      Neighbor's patience wearing thin.

      Finally, white guy moves away,
      I buy his house, and then I say,
      "Find more aliens for house to rent."
      And in the yard I put a tent.

      Send for family (they just trash),
      But they, too, draw Welfare cash!
      Everything is mucho good,
      Soon we own the neighborhood.

      We have hobby--it's called breeding,
      Welfare pay for baby feeding.
      Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?
      We get free! We got No bills!

      Americans crazy! they pay all year,
      To keep the welfare, running here.
      We think America darn good place.
      Too darn good for white man race.
    • Access Overrated  •  7 mths ago
      As an American citizen, I AM STRUGGLING. I am in NEGATIVE in the bank by $173. I do not work not because I do not want to, but because I have two autistic children who need constant care.

      I am NOT receiving any assistance from the govt, I am not on Medicaid or Medicare, I am not receiving social security, not receiving food stamps, or anything else that's subsidized by the govt.

      Even though my account is in negative, I will NOT apply for those things because I can still make it. I truly don't know how, but I KNOW I can do it without assistance. I have been "making it" for almost two years now.

      WHY IN GOD"S NAME would I want to pay for someone else, when I can barely make it by????

      BUT it's nice to know that our politicians are looking our for the AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!
    • Sf Tparty  •  7 mths ago
      Single Payer health care for ALL American citizens and LEGAL immigrants!!
    • Dicky  •  7 mths ago
      Words of Hate, Racism, anti-diversity, Intolerance, Genocide, and Ethnic cleansing from Revolutionary Democrats

      Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party. His full comment was: "We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."

      Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over.

      Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay."

      Excelsior, a newspaper in Mexico, "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."
    • Sf Tparty  •  7 mths ago
      the public health of ALL American citizens and LEGAL immigrants is a legitimate responsibility of government!
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