Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Ignorant
The Los Angeles Times has an article about a Mexican family who has lived in an immigrant enclave for years. It is heart-rending & you have to feel sorry for them. Then again, no you don't - it is their own damn fault.
The husband & wife are illegals from Mexico. The husband works as a carpet installer for $400 a week. They live in a 1-bedroom apartment for $600 a month. The kicker is that they have 10 children. 9 live with them - 2 teenagers, 3 year old triplets & just recently a set of quadruplets.
They were struggling mightily before the quadruplets. Now they must seek a larger & costlier apartment, as well as a larger vehicle to seat all the children.
Because all 10 children are American citizens, being born in the USA, the family is entitled to subsidized, i.e. free, school lunches, healthcare bills for the children covered by Medi-Cal & $700 a month in Social Security payments to help with the medical needs of one of the triplets. He has had 3 state-funded brain operations & will need more. That's basically their story.
But let's give it a critical eye. 10 children?? They are living in poverty or near poverty & they think it's smart to bring 10 children into this? The mother said she stopped using a birth-control patch because it nauseated her. She used fertility drugs to conceive the triplets.
She brings 10 children into the world to share in her poverty & misery. She brings taxpayers into her world to pay for the childrens' healthcare, lunch & other state or federal programs they are eligible for. And if her husband leaves her, as husbands sometimes do, she & the taxpayer are lifetime partners.
The parents show little regard to improve their lot or the childrens' lot. The mother has been in this country illegally for 22 years, the father for 28 years illegally. Yet neither can speak English! Their two teenage daughters speak mostly Spanish, with a limited English vocabulary. This is absolutely pathetic. Not only have they failed to assimilate into an English-speaking society, but have burdened their children with that failure as well.
The mother's existence contrasts sharply with that of her younger siblings, who followed her to Los Angeles but then left. They have settled in Lexington, Ky., had no more than two children each and built better lives than they had known before. Four bought houses. Their children speak English fluently.
The plight of the above family can be multiplied by the tens of thousands. Huddled in immigrant enclaves, these illegal immigrants come here poor & uneducated. They perpetuate a permanent poor class of workers. They don't have the wherewithal to get themselves out of it & they compound the misery by bringing into the world children they can't afford, & not just one or two children - but a gaggle of them. These children in turn create their own family of poor & so the cycle continues. They live in crowded 1-bedroom apartments of 12 people. Hell with the housing codes. They don't even have the ambition to learn English. They choose not to assimilate into the general population.
Unlike past & lesser waves of immigration, these illegals are failing to or refusing to assimilate into American society. Spanish-speaking compounds dot the map across the USA. A walk into these areas is like a walk into a foreign country. And the government "compounds" the problem by allowing voting in 52 languages, driver tests in 26, press 1 or 2 or 3 for whatever language, bi-lingual education. It goes on & on.
The backs of the taxpayers bear more of these families each year. We see overcrowded schools, overcrowded emergency rooms, hospitals going bankrupt for the no-charge services they provide to illegals & their families. A greater demand on social services is made each year by illegals - services that could be better spent on US citizens.
It is not just happening in Los Angeles. It is happening in every state in the Union. And the problem will continue to grow exponentially as the unbridled flood of illegals enters the USA each year. American society is in a sea-change right now, for the worse. We will all wake up one day & wonder how it all happened seemingly so suddenly.
Well, thank the Congress for failing to do anything about controlling the border. They are the villains in this mess. The US taxpayers & citizens are the victims.
The husband & wife are illegals from Mexico. The husband works as a carpet installer for $400 a week. They live in a 1-bedroom apartment for $600 a month. The kicker is that they have 10 children. 9 live with them - 2 teenagers, 3 year old triplets & just recently a set of quadruplets.
They were struggling mightily before the quadruplets. Now they must seek a larger & costlier apartment, as well as a larger vehicle to seat all the children.
Because all 10 children are American citizens, being born in the USA, the family is entitled to subsidized, i.e. free, school lunches, healthcare bills for the children covered by Medi-Cal & $700 a month in Social Security payments to help with the medical needs of one of the triplets. He has had 3 state-funded brain operations & will need more. That's basically their story.
But let's give it a critical eye. 10 children?? They are living in poverty or near poverty & they think it's smart to bring 10 children into this? The mother said she stopped using a birth-control patch because it nauseated her. She used fertility drugs to conceive the triplets.
She brings 10 children into the world to share in her poverty & misery. She brings taxpayers into her world to pay for the childrens' healthcare, lunch & other state or federal programs they are eligible for. And if her husband leaves her, as husbands sometimes do, she & the taxpayer are lifetime partners.
The parents show little regard to improve their lot or the childrens' lot. The mother has been in this country illegally for 22 years, the father for 28 years illegally. Yet neither can speak English! Their two teenage daughters speak mostly Spanish, with a limited English vocabulary. This is absolutely pathetic. Not only have they failed to assimilate into an English-speaking society, but have burdened their children with that failure as well.
The mother's existence contrasts sharply with that of her younger siblings, who followed her to Los Angeles but then left. They have settled in Lexington, Ky., had no more than two children each and built better lives than they had known before. Four bought houses. Their children speak English fluently.
The plight of the above family can be multiplied by the tens of thousands. Huddled in immigrant enclaves, these illegal immigrants come here poor & uneducated. They perpetuate a permanent poor class of workers. They don't have the wherewithal to get themselves out of it & they compound the misery by bringing into the world children they can't afford, & not just one or two children - but a gaggle of them. These children in turn create their own family of poor & so the cycle continues. They live in crowded 1-bedroom apartments of 12 people. Hell with the housing codes. They don't even have the ambition to learn English. They choose not to assimilate into the general population.
Unlike past & lesser waves of immigration, these illegals are failing to or refusing to assimilate into American society. Spanish-speaking compounds dot the map across the USA. A walk into these areas is like a walk into a foreign country. And the government "compounds" the problem by allowing voting in 52 languages, driver tests in 26, press 1 or 2 or 3 for whatever language, bi-lingual education. It goes on & on.
The backs of the taxpayers bear more of these families each year. We see overcrowded schools, overcrowded emergency rooms, hospitals going bankrupt for the no-charge services they provide to illegals & their families. A greater demand on social services is made each year by illegals - services that could be better spent on US citizens.
It is not just happening in Los Angeles. It is happening in every state in the Union. And the problem will continue to grow exponentially as the unbridled flood of illegals enters the USA each year. American society is in a sea-change right now, for the worse. We will all wake up one day & wonder how it all happened seemingly so suddenly.
Well, thank the Congress for failing to do anything about controlling the border. They are the villains in this mess. The US taxpayers & citizens are the victims.
posted by Francis Lynn at 11:37 PM
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