They are changing America by changing the people
I am really getting off track from refugees, but these Bush supported immigration sneak attacks seem to be coming from every direction these days. Word is that the Bush Administration will not oppose lifting the ban on HIV positive immigrants we reported on yesterday here.
Now, comes news, thanks to John Derbyshire writing at NRO The Corner, that Chinese women are paying big bucks to give birth on Saipan because their babies will automatically become US citizens. Read all about it here.
Update July 18th: Senate did vote to lift the ban on immigrants with HIV, see report here at Blue Ridge Forum.
Update July 14th: Read the latest information on this issue at America’s Survival, Inc. here. Today is the best day to call Senators with your opinon.
Urgent notice: The word is that Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will move to strike a provision in S. 2731 when it reaches the floor as early as tomorrow, Monday, July 14th. As I reported yesterday, this provision would allow immigrants with HIV/AIDS to enter the US and receive government (read taxpayer) supported medical treatment.
Critics believe it will serve as a huge magnet to further illegal immigration, and fuel more demands for legal immigration. Also, foreigners getting into the US and seeking asylum could also presumably then ask for medical care. I suppose it’s also possible for any HIV positive foreigner entering the US on a tourist visa to ask for treatment for AIDS. Refugees can already enter the US with HIV/AIDS.
Senator Sessions was the leader in last summer’s defeat of the McCain/Kennedy Amnesty bill. It will take 60 votes in the Senate to remove the HIV (come to America one and all for free medical care) provision.
Update July 18th: Passed by the Senate by a wide margin, see report here at Blue Ridge Forum (including link to how they voted).
Urgent, July 14th: Read the latest on this issue at America’s Survival, Inc. here. Today is the best day to express your opinion to your Senators.
Your tax dollars:
Interesting that this information should come on the heels of our Africa post yesterday. Hat tip: Richard at Blue Ridge Forum. In answer to a commenter yesterday, we do send enormous aid to countries around the world to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, but $50 billion over 5 years is way beyond anything I even imagined.
S.2731 goes to the Senate floor on Monday and is expected to be signed into law by September because it is supported by the Bush Administration (well, maybe its a tad bit more than the Bush proposal of $30 billion, but what’s $20 billion here or there).
Here is the kicker (if $50 billion of our tax dollars wasn’t already) from the Congressional Budget Office:
….enacting S. 2731 would increase direct spending [no kidding]. The bill would allow immigrants with HIV/AIDS to enter the United States. CBO estimates that providing certain benefits to those immigrants and their children would increase direct spending by less than $500,000 in 2010 and by $83 million over the 2010-2018 period.
Refugees are already coming here with HIV (and TB for that matter) despite the ban on foreigners with the disease from traveling or immigrating to the US. This bill would allow all immigrants to enter the US with HIV and be treated at taxpayer expense. I don’t think it takes a genius to see how this opens the door wide to more immigrants (including illegal immigrants) who will rush the gates and become dependent on our already overburdened health care system.
Read the entire CBO report here.
We told you previously about how a Catholic Charities employee in Virginia helped an immigrant girl get an abortion. Technically the underage girl was in the legal charge of the Office of Refugee Resettlement because the whereabouts of her parents is unknown.
Local Catholic Charities offices that help with refugee resettlement and who take care of minors like this Guatemalan girl are under the umbrella of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, one of the 10 major volags contracted by the federal government to do this type of work.
The story is being widely covered but here is an update this morning from a Catholic publication:
RICHMOND, Virginia, July 9, 2008 The Attorney for the Commonwealth of Virginia says he will investigate, but has no intentions of prosecuting, Commonwealth Catholic Charities of Richmond (CCR) for their involvement in procuring an illegal abortion for a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl in their care.
Only the CCR staffer who forged the consent form for the girl’s abortion will be the subject of Commonwealth Attorney Michael N. Herring’s investigation. The staffer would face a Class 3 misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine for signing a consent form without authority to do so under Virginia law.
“That’s the only possible criminal angle,” Herring told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “I’m not investigating Catholic Charities. I’m looking into the execution of the consent form.”
Here is our original story from last month.
Here is a link to a map at The Economist that a friend of Judy’s sent today. It’s a map showing what percentage of citizens’ income is used for food/fuel/drink in most countries of the world, although its purpose is not to show immigration patterns, it is nonetheless instructive. Of course it’s intuitive that immigrants are flowing to North America, Europe and Australia because of the strong economies in those democratic and capitalist countries. I hope you find it as interesting as I did—to see economies depicted on a color-coded world map.