Re: Oh Boo Hoo - Illegal aliens spurn needed benefits

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On Jul 19, 9:32 am, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
<xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's a national scandal that the taxpayers are forced to give them
> anything!!!  Illegals have no rights
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25727901/
>
> Illegal immigrants spurn needed benefits
> Fear of immigration agents means available resources go unclaimed
> updated 5:56 p.m. MT, Fri., July. 18, 2008
>
> Like many immigrants, Carmen Cruz of New York is having trouble making
> ends meet.
>
> “Everything is very expensive,” Cruz said, speaking in her native
> Spanish. “How does one buy or eat anything? Everything is so expensive.”
>
> Cruz did not know that she was eligible for food stamps — $80 a month for
> herself or $200 or more for her family.
>
> At a time when the economic downturn is hitting immigrant communities
> especially hard, food stamps are the first line of defense against hunger
> for low-income families. But advocates and government officials have long
> known that legal immigrants are missing out on government benefit
> programs because of language barriers or ignorance.
>
> And if you are an illegal immigrant, there is a third, crippling barrier
> — fear of arrest and deportation, especially in an anti-immigrant
> political climate that has fueled record numbers of arrests and
> deportations.
>
> Most illegal immigrants have no idea that a limited number of benefit
> programs don’t exclude them, said Betsabé Pabón, director of the Food
> Stamps Program at the nonprofit Sunnyside Community Services in the New
> York borough of Queens.
>
> By law, illegal immigrants are ineligible for food stamps — unless there
> is at least one U.S. citizen in their household, which describes all
> U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.
>
> In many cases, illegal immigrants can also receive emergency medical
> treatment, short-term government disaster relief and immunization against
> communicable diseases. Their children can attend public schools.
>
> States may provide other benefits, such as driver’s licenses and worker’s
> compensation, In Kansas, for example, illegal immigrants can get tuition
> breaks at state universities and colleges.
>
> The attitude was summarized by Eugene Delgaudio, who represents Sterling
> Park, Va., on the Loudoun Board of County Supervisors in suburban
> Washington. He said his community’s quality of life was at stake.
>
> “This is a cesspool,” Delgaudio said. “People are coming from outside of
> this culture, and they are dumping their crap on the streets of our town,
> and our town is outraged that they don’t get with the program.”
>
> (snip)

Run them all out of America.

mitch

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