The New Slaves – The Arizona Law

I’m a news-junky tuned into cable news all day long. So I’m very aware of the brouhaha resulting from Arizona passing a law that attempts to put state control over the problem of illegal aliens. A state law is by definition a second-rate solution to a national problem, but what is Arizona to do? The federal government demonstrates daily that it is totally impotent to deal with the problem and totally unwilling to try to deal with the problem.

The citizens of Arizona are suffering. Citizens live in fear. Citizens die at the hands of illegal aliens. People are kidnapped as part of drug wars. Perhaps most importantly, hospitals are closing, bankrupted by illegal alien patients who walk away from their bills without paying.

I live next door to illegal aliens. I’ve witnessed the local hospital being defrauded. One of the boys living next door went to the emergency room for an itch on his scrotum and gave my address as his own. I received his bill. I’m sure he thought he was very clever until I took the bill next door. In minutes the boy got in a car and drove away. The other people in the house told the hospital that he’d left the country, but he was only sleeping on a friend’s couch. He was back in three weeks. He never missed a day of work; he never paid a penny of his bill.

As a result of his failure to pay the minimal amount he owed, when I needed uninsured surgery to save my eyesight, I had to pay half the bill in advance. The hospital was no longer willing to risk the uninsured not paying. If I hadn’t paid the remainder, the hospital would have taken my house in a New York minute. Knowing the boy was an illegal alien, the hospital just added the cost of his emergency room care to the bills of people like me.  It doesn’t seem fair.


If I drove with no license and drove into the living room of someone’s house, I bet I’d be arrested. When an illegal alien who refused to admit to speaking English did just that to my friend’s relative’s house, the police told the homeowner to use her insurance. They didn’t plan to arrest the illegal—who was standing there giggling about it all—until the homeowner insisted she be arrested. It doesn’t seem fair.

When I was unemployed and uninsured and needed expensive surgeries to save my eyesight (or at least some of it), the township official responsible for helping citizens assured me that I didn’t qualify for any help. She insisted that there would be no possibility of my getting Social Security disability even if I went so blind I couldn’t see the difference between light and dark. And yet the illegals who live next door to me receive child support from the state of Illinois because they registered their children as the bastards of a man in Mexico--the biological father of the children is actually living in the house with them and has an unusually glamorous job. It just doesn’t seem fair.


I don't know about Arizona, but in Illinois there are business people who will only hire illegals. I have witnessed American citizens being fired to be replaced by illegals. More and more it appears that it is the citizens who are second class and illegals the advantaged persons. That doesn't seem fair.

The citizens of Arizona are suffering. No one in the Federal government is helping. The citizens of Arizona have no choice but to help themselves. That seems fair enough.


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