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Old 01-08-2022, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Dessert
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The wall isn't "hurting" people; some may be getting hurt if they try to cross it instead of going around.
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:19 AM
 
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What utter nonsense! The border wall that Trump built isn't rusting away! Too bad that Biden wouldn't allow it to be completed. I can't think of a better way to spend our tax dollars than to secure our country's borders. Without it we have nothing. Criminals, terrorists and migrants looking to rape our country financially are slipping through our southern border. We spend billions of our tax dollars protecting other countries but it's too expensive to protect our own?
Great Post!
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:19 AM
 
Location: The Sunshine State of Mind
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Central American citizens can't claim asylum in the US. The UN policy is to ask for asylum in the first safe nation they enter. For people from CentAm, that nation would be Mexico. Asylum denied.
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:21 AM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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I heard that prison walls are hurting criminals as well.
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:25 AM
 
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Biden has an open border policy ...
No, he does not.

You start your post (and the entire thread) with a false assertion to steer the discussion one way.

Very disingenuous.
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:44 AM
 
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don't worry about it..Trump's small ineffective but overly expensive ( at your tax dollars expense ) border wall is rusting away to nothing as we speak..
PSST! They are NOT climbing over any of his wall!

"( at your tax dollars expense " And what do you think it is costing by allowing so may illegals in?

A little dated and it has only costing MORE!

" One Hospital in one city in the USA
VERY INTENSE...thanks....long read but this situation and its long-term magnitude (and current status) warrant it at times...

This is only One Hospital in one city in the USA

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas,Texas is a fairly famous institution
and for a variety of reasons:

1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963

2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after

3. Jack Ruby-who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later..by
coincidence

*"On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity
ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year*

*(That's almost 44 per day---every day)*

*A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave
birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal
immigrants.. That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas.*

According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering
15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars
in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County
taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5
million.

The average patient in Park land's maternity ward is 25 years old, married
and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant.. By
law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their
immigration status or ability to pay.

OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday,
middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital, they do. Parkland
Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE.

The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient
at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child ---her previous two
were also born at Parkland. Her first two deliveries were free and the
Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in
Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for
the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not
that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even
bother asking at this point.)

"How long has this been going on? What are the long-term affects?

Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly
after her mother entered the US illegally - now she is having her own child
there as well (That's right, she's technically a US citizen)

These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition,
birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car
seats, bottles, diapers and formula.

Most of these things are available to American citizens as well but only
for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape involved is almost
insurmountable.

Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any
sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American citizen
would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their
annual income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the
hospital must take them at their word.

"My husband is a pilot for the United States Navy (yes, he fought in Iraq )
and while the health care is good, we Navy wives don't get any of these
perks! Car seats? Diapers? Not so much. So my question is this: Does our
public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American
citizens? Yes, it does!

As I mentioned, the care I have received is perfectly adequate but it's
bare bones, meat and potato medical care - not top of line.

Their (the illegals') medical care is free - simply because they are
illegal immigrants? Once again, there is no way to verify their income.

Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn
less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not
refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the 'free' care is not
so easy for Americans.)

There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for
un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free
treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is
going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But US citizens who live
outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?

As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are
actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP
story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to
translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband.
The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother
was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was
apparently a great injustice to her.

In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now
providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak
Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas
Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now
have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed
curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous
multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.

( Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation - particularly to
our "employees" in Congress.)

*Remember that this is only ONE hospital is Dallas, Texas. There are many
more hospitals across our country that also have to deal with this.*

*SO TRUMP IS RIGHT WANTING TO FOCUS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGATION*

*REMEMBER THEY ARE NOT 'UNDOCUMENTED ' , THEY ARE ILLEGAL & MILKING AMERICA
DRY....*..

*PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY US CITIZEN AND LEGAL RESIDENT YOU KNOW.*

If you want to verify accuracy:
https://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrant-births-at-your-expense/ [/CENTER][/CENTER]
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:45 AM
 
Location: U.S.
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Default Could illegals be transported to European countries?

Since Biden has an open borders policy, when illegals are caught, why not transport them elsewhere vs alongside the Afghan refugees?

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/...s/6374640.html
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:47 AM
 
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Not sure about Biden (he signed an order on his first day in office to pause all wall construction) but Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled nearly 900 feet (!) of newly constructed border barrier on state-owned land near the Rio Grande in Starr County, six months after he promised to finish what President Donald Trump started.
The state hasn’t publicly disclosed some basic information about Abbott’s wall-building plans.
Texas has set aside $1.05 billion for border barriers but hasn’t revealed any detailed info about that.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12...bbott-secrecy/

After all, the Trump administration managed to build just ~21 miles of new border barrier on the 1,254-mile Texas-Mexico border over four years, and overall just about 50 miles in areas where no barrier previously existed.
"the Trump administration managed to build just ~21 miles of new border barrier on the 1,254-mile Texas-Mexico border over four years,"

Imagine how far he would have gotten if the dems did NOT try to block him constantly.
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Old 01-08-2022, 09:51 AM
 
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What utter nonsense! The border wall that Trump built isn't rusting away! Too bad that Biden wouldn't allow it to be completed. I can't think of a better way to spend our tax dollars than to secure our country's borders. Without it we have nothing. Criminals, terrorists and migrants looking to rape our country financially are slipping through our southern border. We spend billions of our tax dollars protecting other countries but it's too expensive to protect our own?
"isn't rusting away!"

The unused material is rusting away plied up and biden REFUSES to sell it to Texas.

Now THAT is a HUGE waste of tax dollars.
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Old 01-08-2022, 10:08 AM
 
Location: U.S.
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Default Border fatality on Biden’s watch

Ugh. Another fatality, not Covid related. Well, maybe they did have Covid.

https://sanangelolive.com/news/crime...ng-border-wall
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