From Deseret News archives:
Bush's illegal-alien plan insults our intelligence
Let's recap. Government mandates on hospitals have them absorbing costs of "emergency" care for illegals who use ER rooms as their primary-care physicians. Los Angeles County spent $350 million for illegals' care at hospitals and free clinics last year. I have entertained myself on many a graveyard stint in the ER by telling my compadres that my employer is INS. I can clear the room in 35 seconds.
Public schools officials cannot ask, tell or daydream of parents' status. Despite voter referenda, schools continue instruction in Spanish. Arizona House Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, a fiscal conscience on illegal immigration, who endures charges of racism despite his Mexican national father, estimates that Arizona spends about $2 billion on their health and education.
President Vicente Fox visited Arizona and demanded that we make immigration easier. As Jay Leno says, "How? By installing moving walkways?" Former Gov. Gray Davis issued an edict giving drivers' licenses to everyone. Now President Bush has proposed a crackerjack amnesty plan for illegal immigrants and a "guest worker" plan. Granting amnesty to those who have tiptoed across the border may not be the get-tough signal our free-service-Nirvana needs. Save us the suspense, decades of debate and budgetary surprises. Let's just annex Mexico.
The debate on illegal immigration remains wholly unsatisfying because those who are most vocal know very little of the reality of living in a border state. The Wall Street Journal's pro-immigration posture springs from its vision of immigrant programmers and engineers from India and China who give us Intel inside. The strange bedfellows with the Journal in this debate are compassionate conservatives who now offer Mexicans "jobs Americans don't want."
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