By
and large, the hospital I worked for was conscientious
in complying with those laws and I believe that most
hospitals are.
However, when it came to dealing with single mother
immigrant childbirths (by and large illegal Mexicans and
some Central Americans), the hospital administration
assumed a "culturally
sensitive" position regarding statutory rape.
I
don't know how many birth certificate worksheets and
interviews I participated in with 14 and 15-year old
mothers of
anchor babies fathered by 20 to 30- year-old men.
Believe it or not, a high percentage of fathers showed
up at the maternity wards and participated in the
interviews.
But the hospital as a matter of unwritten policy
declined to report these cases as required by law.
And needless to say the hospital had to
write off most of the billing associated with these
cases.
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Saturday’s Letters: A
Massachusetts Native Says Cape Cod Is Cracking Down On
Illegals
From:
Matthew Richer [e-mail
him]
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s
Abolishing New England: Cheap Labor vs. College Kids
and
More Cape Cod Clamoring For Cheap Labor
In a shamelessly pro-immigration piece, the Boston
Globe's designated open borders advocate Yvonne
Abraham (send her
mail) writes critically of Sandwich, MA's attempt to
crack down on the hiring of illegals. [
Few
Immigrants in Town But Concern Aplenty,” Yvonne
Abraham, Boston Globe, July 10, 2006]
Sandwich, unlike other Cape towns, has a large year
round population so their residents have a stronger
stake in the community. The Globe pretends that
the immigration
crack down has little local support but in reality
it is hugely popular.
When I used to summer on Cape Cod during the 80s and
early 90s, it was always high school and college
students who worked the summer jobs—doing virtually
anything for money, even housecleaning.
Now, teenagers on Cape Cod cannot find work because
immigrants have taken so many of the jobs.
Crime, which used to be unheard of on Cape Cod, has
increased, and I've heard many stories of
car thefts in Hyannis where the Kennedy's live
securely in their "compound."
The Sandwich residents don’t want their town to become
Hyannis. Can you blame them?
Milford is another
Massachusetts town up in arms about illegal aliens.
It says something that even in liberal
Massachusetts, local government is starting to crack
down on immigration.
Richer is a Boston
native who currently writes from New York where he is
the U.S. editor of the British magazine,
Right Now!
His most recent immigration piece is an interview with
Harvard economist George Borjas
here.
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Saturday’s Letters: A Virginia
Reader Congratulates Peter Gadiel On His Bold Letter To
President George W. Bush
From:
Ed
Nelson [e-mail
him]
Re: Peter Gadiel’s Open Letter To George W. Bush:
I’ve Had Enough
I
read Gadiel’s most powerful condemnation of
President Bush.
Brilliant! Courageous! Insightful!
The next time he writes
something like that, I hope Gadiel will give me the
chance to add my name to his.
Nelson is the Chairman of
U.S. Border Control,
a non-profit organization based in McLean, VA. and
dedicated to ending illegal immigration through border
security.
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Saturday’s Letters: But Another
Virginia Reader Says Gadiel Needs To Respect The
President’s Office
From:
[Name
Withheld]
Gadiel's vulgar letter is disrespectful of the president
of the United States, hence of the United States itself.
Peter is on our side. We like him and value his
comradeship. We do not wish to rebuke him, but it seems
unwise for VDARE.COM to lend him a platform for such an
immoderate, ill-mannered diatribe.
One cannot save the country by trashing the country.
Patriotic Americans have never addressed the
president by his given name.
Gadiel and all of us should to follow the distinguished
American tradition of addressing the president as "Mr.
President"—even, perhaps especially, when one
addresses the president in censure.
We
stand up when the president enters the room, not
because we agree with him but because we
love our country. He is, after all, the president.
In
respect for the memory of
George Washington and for the dignity of the high
office he left to lesser men to fill, kindly either
remove Gadiel’s letter or edit it to fit the widely used
standards when addressing the President of the United
States.
Peter Gadiel
responds:
I did not "trash
the country". The sole target of my criticism was
George W. Bush. Patriotic Americans frequently address
the President, in print at least, by other than his
given name…”Ike”, “Abe”, “Teddy”,
“JFK”, etc.
Whether or not my
criticism of Bush is “vulgar” I’ll leave for
others to decide. However, nearly ninety people have
written me; all but four are strongly supportive.
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Saturday’s Letters: A
Connecticut Reader Cites Ralph Nader, Says Senate Should
Prove It Really Read S.2611
From:
Vito
Danelli [e-mail
him]
I’m thinking that
some sort of challenge should be issued to the members
of the U.S. Senate who voted for
S.2611.
Could any of
them, I wonder, answer any questions from that 800-plus
page legislation?
I’m reminded that,
during the 2004 Presidential Campaign, Ralph Nader was
interviewed by
Pat Buchanan for the
American Conservative magazine.
The following is an
excerpt of what Nader said to Buchanan about the
World Trade Organization (WTO), another massive
piece of legislation that no one read.
“Did you hear about
my challenge to Colorado Senator Hank Brown?
“We put a challenge
out before WTO was voted in 1995 because we went all
over Capitol Hill and had never found any Member of
Congress or a staffer who had ever read the proposal.
“So I said, ‘I'll
give $10,000 to the favorite charity of any Congressman
who will sign an affidavit that he or she has read the
WTO agreement and will answer ten questions in public.’
“The deadline passed.
Nobody. So I extended it a week. A quarter to 5:00 on
Friday, the phone rings in our office. It is Hank Brown,
and he said, ‘I don't want the $10,000 to charity, but I
will take you up on it. How much time do I have?’
“I said, ‘Take a
month.’
“So Brown reserves
the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the
interrogation.
“It gets better. The
press is all there, and Brown is in the witness chair.
We have 12 questions, and he answers every one. They
weren't all simple either. It was really impressive.
“And I said, ‘Thank
you very much. That was really commendable,’ and we
start to get up.
“Then Brown
announced, ‘Wait. I have something to say. You know, I
am a free trader, and I voted for
NAFTA, but after reading the WTO agreement, I was so
appalled by the anti-democratic provisions that I am
going to vote against it and urge everyone else to.’
“The next day, there
was almost no press. It shows you the bias against
anybody who challenges those multinational systems of
autocratic governance that we call ‘
trade
agreements.’
“And
Brown didn't convince one extra senator.
“Once when I
testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, I
had to say some nice things at the beginning: ‘Mr.
Chairman, distinguished Members of the House Ways and
Means Committee, it is indeed a pleasure to testify
before a committee of Congress that has read this
proposed trade agreement.’
“The Chairman looked
at me and asked: ‘What makes you think we did?’
“Let's put it this
way: ‘it is impossible to exaggerate the dereliction of
diligence in the Congress.’”
[“Ralph Nader:
Conservatively Speaking”, The American
Conservative, June 21, 2004]
Danelli is a computer consultant who was a delegate for
Pat Buchanan at the 2000 Reform Party convention. Read
his previous letter about S. 2611
here.
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Saturday’s Letters: A Texas
Reader Doesn't Want the Mexican Flag Flying Over Her
State
From:
Suzan
Donoghue [e-mail
her]
I
live and work in the San Antonio area. Recently, I drove
by the local
Wells Fargo Bank.
The
American and Texas flags were flying. In between
them, the
Mexican flag flew.
Then, down the road, I passed the Doubletree Hotel and
there again flew the American and Texas flags with the
Mexican flag flying in the middle of them.
Why are they flying the Mexican flag on American soil?
And what is the significance of Mexico’s flag being
flanked on either side by the American and Texas flags?
Who owns Doubletree Hotels? I am
livid and
disgusted.
[VDARE.COM
note:
Hilton Hotels Corporation
owns Doubletree. Kathy Shepard is Vice President of
Corporate Communications and Community Relations. Her
e-mail is
here.]
Donoghue works in San Antonio law enforcement.
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