More From The Fulford File
Uninsured Americans
The
Independence Institute`s Dave Kopel reports that the
figure of
“41 million Americans without health insurance” that
you hear from advocates of socialized medicine is false
in one important respect. As Kopel
points out, 9 million of the uninsured aren`t
Americans at all.
“First of all, while
the figure is regularly touted as the number of
`Americans` without health insurance, that`s incorrect.
According to a Census Bureau report on which the 41
million figure is based ("Health
Insurance Coverage: 2001"), the number includes 9
million legal and illegal immigrants. So the number of
`Americans` without health insurance is actually about
32 million, not 41 million.
Vdare.com has
been saying this for years. (We also say that some of
the remaining 32 million are actually the American-born “anchor
babies” of legal immigrants and illegal aliens.)
It`s nice to see someone taking notice. Some earlier
reports:
Peter
Brimelow comments on "New York doubling cigarette tax to
pay for health care for poor"
Illegal Aliens: The Health Cost Dimension
Immigration In South Africa
South Africa is having immigration worries too.
According to a story in the
Cape Business News, the Cape High Court has
set aside regulations intended to encourage the kind
of immigrants who bring money with them, and to expedite
deportations. The removal of
126 Nigerians cost 1.2 million rand in 2000. The
South African Department of Home Affairs is quoted
propounding a novel idea:
“The
Department of Home Affairs in turn says it has an
obligation in the interest of its citizens to control
entry into the country. The department says there is
a real risk that persons entering the country may
disappear if not arrested and detained pending an
investigation.”
Wow! (Emphasis mine)
However, according to South Africa`s “Human Rights Chief”
Jody Kollapen, resistance to illegal immigration is
futile. Recognize this argument?
“Kollapen said as long as many factors pushed Africans
south to what they saw as a land of plenty, the current
policy was a waste of taxpayers` money.”
People
in the U.S. talk about illegals crossing the
Rio Grande, and braving the
Sonoran Desert to get here. South Africa has worse
natural hazards:
“Billy
Masetlha, the Department of Home Affairs
director-general, conceded that little could be done to
keep illegal immigrants out, if not even crocodiles and
hippos along the Limpopo or lions and elephants in the
Kruger National Park could.”
Of course, South Africa may need some immigrants.
Whites are leaving to avoid being killed, and blacks
are leaving to drive taxis in the United States. When I
was in St. Louis, Missouri, a couple of years ago, I was
driven to the airport by a Zulu from South Africa.
A
good driver, and I`m happy for him that he`s made it out
of South Africa and into the U.S.
But I couldn`t help wondering if
unemployed African-Americans in Missouri
might not be so happy about it.
Ethnic Media in California
New California Media is a website that features all
kinds of ethnic commentary [African,
African American ,
Asian,
South Asian,
European,
Indigenous,
Latino, and
Middle Eastern].
Recently, it
noticed that the FBI will now be enforcing the
immigration laws – as
reported by Juan Mann here on VDARE.COM.
“Latino groups said
the measure represented an alarming erosion of civil
liberties and was possibly unconstitutional.”
As far as I know, nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does
it say that federal laws are required to be enforced by
incompetents who will let people get away with
murder.
In the same item, New California Media quotes a
spokesperson for the
National Council Of La Raza saying
“This new immigration
policy is very worrying and it affects all immigrants.
The most important fact is that FBI agents are not
educated on immigration law and there could be abuses of
human, civil rights and instances of discrimination
based on racial profiling.”
They needn`t worry. You might think the FBI could use a
little “profiling”
– its fear of being accused of this heinous act of
common sense caused it to ignore Arab terrorists in
flight schools, training for the 9/11
attack on America. But the Director of the FBI has
sworn it won`t profile, no matter how many Americans
die.
