Sick and dying in the Land of NOT:

Of course Americans are more “entitled” to public services than Foreigners
because it is American money that pays and it comes out of American
taxpayers’ pockets.  So to hell with Foreigners even though they may be just as
human, even if pain and illness hurt them just as much and their need is as
great or greater than American needs. Even though we could afford to pay for
all of it if we stopped killing people in Afghanistan.  Let Foreigners go back
where they came from even though that place is too poor to provide them with
any care at all. 

I do not want American money to be spent on Foreigners. American money is
for Americans.  However, if I happen to be working and paying taxes in a
foreign country sometime and I get sick or have an accident, or want to send
my kids to a foreign school for a while, I hope that country has provided those
services for me because I just might not have enough money to pay for them
myself—if I am broke or out of work or have no friends and relatives I can call
upon to help me out. 

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The data was sent to the media and some government offices.  The state gov is quoted as saying,  “...immense hypocrisy to take someone to task for being illegal and doing so by breaking the law”.

My name isn’t on that list.  Why not?

Because my grandfather crossed the border out of Germany and landed on the
shores of Pennsylvania some years ago when getting out was important but
getting in was no problem.  He was “illegal” in the sense that he voluntarily
gave up his birth rights, hoping to find a better livelihood in a country that
needed workers.

He was able to stay, though he suffered some “impressment of labor”
difficulties, moved west, took up free land and put down roots.  During World
War I he was socially discriminated against in the hysteria of anti-German rage,
but, passing through that, he became a “respectable” citizen with a definite
accent, and, as a farmer, an unspoken second-class status.  My mother spoke
only German until she started school. Fortunately,  the Constitution was written
to accommodate their inclusion.

The argument is that then there was room; now there isn’t.  Then there were
jobs; now there aren’t.  But this is only partly true. If we were genuinely
interested now in “inclusion” (as rich as this country is) we could stop wasting
billions on wars in the Middle East and spend it on development of this country
in such a way that borders and rules of entry would be fairly regulated,
nondiscriminatory and orderly. There would be plenty of jobs.

Life-and-death decisions should not be legitimized when based merely on
whose grandfather got here first, and panicky rejection does not lead to
democratic government.