On November 2, 2006 the Bush regime announced that children born to low-income undocumented immigrants will no longer be automatically entitled to health insurance through the federal program known as Medicaid. Apparently the Bush regime has expanded its attacks on immigrants to their U.S. citizen children. The result will be increased infant mortality and reduced health care for babies.
This policy change by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will hurt our nation’s youngest citizens. Infants born to pregnant women on Medicaid are automatically eligible for Medicaid for one year if the infant stays with the mother. But under the new announced policy, undocumented parents of newborns will now have to apply for Medicaid and prove that their newborns are citizens under the new citizenship documentation policy. This is part of a broader attack on immigrants which began on July 1st this year. At that time CMS started to require proof of citizenship for all Medicaid applicants. This has resulted in delays in medical treatment for tens of thousands.
wow how typically bush’ist… i mean thats wot happens when you want to lower taxes as far as possible. It doesnt supprise me, americna people wanted less taxes and thats wot they are getting
ok…how many people in here are from Texas…i just want to know, becaus i go to school here, and the effects of all the illegals whose kids mooch off our free education are part of (not all of) the problem with the Texas education system. I in no way advocate the death of babies, regardless of nationality, but maybe this could work out for the better and convince mexican citizens to come here legally, or stay in Mexico. The mexican people who live in the United States are extremely hard working, so if they would put that work ethic to good use in Mexico, maybe their country wouldn’t be in such poor shape.
you make a fine point, I just get sick of people being so anti-bush that they take everything he does as an oportunuty to rag on him, he is not by any means the best presedent we’ve ever had, but he’s not the worst and he also has quite a bit on his plate compared to many of our past presedents. I’m not saying you have to like him, or his policies, but he is in office, and it is his second term…that doesn’t simply happen if the people don’t want it too. And, just for the record, if a person doesn’t vote, they sure as hell better not complain.
Wait just cause they are going to school with you and not paying a dollar for it that annoys you? Why? What makes you better than a mexican? WHy should you be allowed to have a good education and them not?
Is it just cause you are american and they are not? Cause you pay taxes and he doesnt? Because hes poor and your better off?
Surely you should be happy that some mexicans are trying to do better and trying to get an education and getting themselves out of misery.
Illegal immigration isnt good, but to disencourage, the US goverment should work harder to improve the situation in mexico, rather than tighten immigration laws.
and one more thing, with the number of mothers out there killing their inwanted children with abortion, how can the fact that bush supported a policy make him a baby killer? Poor form on bush’s part for supporting this policy: yes, probably. Poor form on billy’s part for giving it such a hateful title when abaortion is legal and mothers kill their childeren everyday: most definitely (and don’t give me crap about how abortion kills the fetus before its a baby, they have to wait 8 weeks before preforming an abortion so as to avoid missing a few cells that could continue to reproduce into a baby…the baby needs to be almost fully developed to ensure they suck out all of it)
thats the thing, most of them are NOT trying to do better, if they worked hard to get an education and to excell in life, ok fine, i can get over the fact that our schools are overcrouded and underfunded, but the vast majority of illegal imegrants are not trying to excell, they are in the lowest posible curriculem barely passing (if passing at all). If they were serious about getting a better life, don’t you think they would at least appy themselves?
EDIT: i would also like to add, why does it have to be our job to hold up all the other countries? It doesn’t, we do it because we are a country that operates under a general policy of good will. What other countries will bomb the crap out of a totalitarian regime, and then build that nation back as a democracy where the people have a say? I don’t like to make generalizations, and nothing is absolute, but i’m going to stick my neck out and say, probably very few…
I don’t like to argue partisan politics when the issue is class politics, so the Bush administration and abortion aside, I am highly skeptical of any sweeping generalizations to be made about Mexican immigrants and labor without the context of any serious research to support those claims.
I think the US does reasonably well on the social mobility charts, but it still sucks to start out poor. You can’t put everything down to who apply themselves the most.
I think you may have missed my point. I meant the kids, in the public school system don’t care. Yes it sucks to be poor, but that shouldn’t matter very much in a child’s education. For students who can’t afford things like test fees, i know for a fact there are programs run by the school to pay those fees for the student. Also, i used to be a part of the program that paid for most of my school lunches (then, when my mom got a job, we removed ourselves from the program) so i know that that doesn’t have to be a problem. Except for the possible lack of internet access (which can in many cases be avoided with a library) i fail to see how being poor is an excuse for apathy in education. I’ve aided in the office of my school, i’ve heard the principles talking to the disrespectful, apathetic, punk kids, they just don’t care about the importance of education. Many of these kids are illegal immegrants. and if they would apply themselve in school, they undoubtedly would increase their chances of overcoming poverty.
Amen. If you want to live here, you need to abide by our laws. No man is higher than the law. Illegal ailiens need to realize this and pursue legal ways to live here. The solution is not to just say, “Well, since your here already, we’ll just be nice and make you all citizens.” That just encourages the problem.