Hospitals are often forced to set aside piles of money to cover the cost of treating illegal aliens who need urgent care, which our government requires them to do. We're not just talking about car accidents here, either. In California, an uninsured, unemployed pregnant woman who is in the U.S. illegally is entitled to prenatal care and delivery costs.
After the baby is born the government will also cover car seats and diapers. As if this wasn't enough, if the woman doesn't not know our language the hospital must, by law, provide her with a translator. That's right, our federal government, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, requires agencies like hospitals to provide translators for people who don't even pay taxes.One of the biggest issues in California's governor race is a recent law allowing driver's licenses to be given to illegal aliens. California has now passed the law which is expected to cost them millions of tax dollars. Millions of dollars they definately can't afford. For a state which couldn't even keep its power on recently to try and pass a bill like this is absolute lunacy. Here are some facts about the law:
- Repeals existing law that requires every applicant for an original driver's license or identification card to submit satisfactory proof that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.
- Repeals the law that prohibits the DMV from issuing driver's licenses to individuals who fail to provide proof of citizenship.
- Allows the use of a federal taxpayer identification number or other number approved by the DMV in lieu of a social security number for driver's license applicants.
- Requires the DMV to accept a combination of: Matricula consular cards issued by the government of Mexico, foreign driver's licenses, foreign passports, foreign military identification cards, and foreign birth certificates for applicants for driver's licenses.
Let's not forget that a driver's license grants more than just driving rights. It gives the illegal alien a passport to board a plane, get a job, rent an apartment or car, open a bank account, enter a federal building, apply for social services, travel back and forth across our borders with Mexico and Canada, buy a gun and even register to vote. That means that any terrorist can jump the border from Mexico, get a license and have access to almost all of the benefits a full U.S. citizen has.
When someone loses their license due to traffic violations, they are told that a driver's license is a privelege, not a right. Why then are the California legislators considering licenses a right for non-tax-paying people? Also, why is giving these people a license a priority over, say, fixing their already staggering budget defeciet.
We need to stop accepting the presence of these people. They need to be returned to their country and stopped from returning except under our normal immigration laws. The United States has some of the most open immigration laws in the world. There is not another country in world that is more easy to immigrate to than the United States. There are perfectly legal channels that these people can go through in order to establish citizenship here.
The fact that they are here illegally, taking our jobs and wasting our tax dollars, is just not acceptable.
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