Did anyone see that child ask M. Obama about immigration?

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Anonymous wrote:Or better yet, she should have asked her to say thank you to the Feds, State, and County taxpayers for giving her this free education.

You sound so ignorant. Most people who are here legally actually have a tax payer ID number and do pay taxes. Just because you didn't get here legally or just because you got to an illegal status (expired visa or greencard, for example), it doesn't mean you are just sucking the rest of the country dry.

Bull! I work with pregnant Anerican citizens who are not eligible for proper pre- and post-natal care because they aren't on welfare and "make too much money" to qualify for food stamps, housing, and other social services. It burns me up when I see illegals have their children here and they receive the care and services citizens of this country are denied. Most of you don't even know what the hell you are talking about. American citizens go to bed hungry--the elderly, children, but you think it is all right to take care of illegals? I bet we'd hear you screaming if you were denied social services you or your children need.

Until you have actual knowledge of how much illegal immigrants cost US taxpayers and see American women and children do without then shut up, or, better still, put your money where your mouth is and contribute 25% of your annual income to take care of the illegal immigrants you think do no harm or cause no inconvenience.

Agree, many of them got flu shots before Americans did last year. The free clinics targeted them.

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Anonymous wrote:Or better yet, she should have asked her to say thank you to the Feds, State, and County taxpayers for giving her this free education.

You sound so ignorant. Most people who are here legally actually have a tax payer ID number and do pay taxes. Just because you didn't get here legally or just because you got to an illegal status (expired visa or greencard, for example), it doesn't mean you are just sucking the rest of the country dry.

Bull! I work with pregnant Anerican citizens who are not eligible for proper pre- and post-natal care because they aren't on welfare and "make too much money" to qualify for food stamps, housing, and other social services. It burns me up when I see illegals have their children here and they receive the care and services citizens of this country are denied. Most of you don't even know what the hell you are talking about. American citizens go to bed hungry--the elderly, children, but you think it is all right to take care of illegals? I bet we'd hear you screaming if you were denied social services you or your children need.

Until you have actual knowledge of how much illegal immigrants cost US taxpayers and see American women and children do without then shut up, or, better still, put your money where your mouth is and contribute 25% of your annual income to take care of the illegal immigrants you think do no harm or cause no inconvenience.

THANK YOU! This makes me irate!! I make plenty of money but do not have maternity insurance coverage. So I have to eat the bills and pay out of pocket, which will most likely be an incurred debt that will take several years to pay off. I make way too much money to qualify for medicare, but was inevitably screwed by the 10-month waiting period to add maternity benefits onto my insurance. Wonderful surprise pregnancies are not the most affordable thing in the world...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or better yet, she should have asked her to say thank you to the Feds, State, and County taxpayers for giving her this free education.

You sound so ignorant. Most people who are here legally actually have a tax payer ID number and do pay taxes. Just because you didn't get here legally or just because you got to an illegal status (expired visa or greencard, for example), it doesn't mean you are just sucking the rest of the country dry.

Bull! I work with pregnant Anerican citizens who are not eligible for proper pre- and post-natal care because they aren't on welfare and "make too much money" to qualify for food stamps, housing, and other social services. It burns me up when I see illegals have their children here and they receive the care and services citizens of this country are denied. Most of you don't even know what the hell you are talking about. American citizens go to bed hungry--the elderly, children, but you think it is all right to take care of illegals? I bet we'd hear you screaming if you were denied social services you or your children need.

Until you have actual knowledge of how much illegal immigrants cost US taxpayers and see American women and children do without then shut up, or, better still, put your money where your mouth is and contribute 25% of your annual income to take care of the illegal immigrants you think do no harm or cause no inconvenience.

THANK YOU! This makes me irate!! I make plenty of money but do not have maternity insurance coverage. So I have to eat the bills and pay out of pocket, which will most likely be an incurred debt that will take several years to pay off. I make way too much money to qualify for medicare, but was inevitably screwed by the 10-month waiting period to add maternity benefits onto my insurance. Wonderful surprise pregnancies are not the most affordable thing in the world...

I can't give you any advice but look into Medicaid, it will cost you about $500/month but it can keep you out of long-term debt but there is an income ceiling. Also, Maryland has far more programs than VA., but keep on turning over those rocks--I once found $2000.00 for someone by not taking "no" for an answer. Good luck to you.

I thought the waiting period for maternity benefits was illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or better yet, she should have asked her to say thank you to the Feds, State, and County taxpayers for giving her this free education.

You sound so ignorant. Most people who are here legally actually have a tax payer ID number and do pay taxes. Just because you didn't get here legally or just because you got to an illegal status (expired visa or greencard, for example), it doesn't mean you are just sucking the rest of the country dry.

Bull! I work with pregnant Anerican citizens who are not eligible for proper pre- and post-natal care because they aren't on welfare and "make too much money" to qualify for food stamps, housing, and other social services. It burns me up when I see illegals have their children here and they receive the care and services citizens of this country are denied. Most of you don't even know what the hell you are talking about. American citizens go to bed hungry--the elderly, children, but you think it is all right to take care of illegals? I bet we'd hear you screaming if you were denied social services you or your children need.

Until you have actual knowledge of how much illegal immigrants cost US taxpayers and see American women and children do without then shut up, or, better still, put your money where your mouth is and contribute 25% of your annual income to take care of the illegal immigrants you think do no harm or cause no inconvenience.

THANK YOU! This makes me irate!! I make plenty of money but do not have maternity insurance coverage. So I have to eat the bills and pay out of pocket, which will most likely be an incurred debt that will take several years to pay off. I make way too much money to qualify for medicare, but was inevitably screwed by the 10-month waiting period to add maternity benefits onto my insurance. Wonderful surprise pregnancies are not the most affordable thing in the world...

I can't give you any advice but look into Medicaid, it will cost you about $500/month but it can keep you out of long-term debt but there is an income ceiling. Also, Maryland has far more programs than VA., but keep on turning over those rocks--I once found $2000.00 for someone by not taking "no" for an answer. Good luck to you.

I thought the waiting period for maternity benefits was illegal.

Care First BCBS in DC said there was a 10-month waiting period and to change insurance policies would have classified as a pre-existing condition, bear in mind I am also overdue right now. I gave up and accepted that I would have $15k+ in medical bills back in December. Luckily, my parents are adverse to helping me with the bills. I will look into Medicaid but I am pretty sure I make too much money.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a Pre-K teacher in Columbia Heights. Most of the children in my class are Latino, and half of their parents don't have legal papers. The Latino community is scared and misinformation abounds.

If you know they are illegal immigrants why haven't they been reported? I, among many, many others, am damn sick and tired of my tax dollars going to support illegal immigrants. I believe that children born in the US should NOT be given automatic citizenship. There is a movement to repeal this law and I sincerely hope that it is retroactive.

I was educated at a private boarding school and classes were small and we had almost individual attention from teachers. Today's public schools are overcrowded and teachers are overworked, overwhelmed, and grossly underpaid. The public education system in this country is appalling and some high school graduates are functionally illiterate. If ONLY children of American citizens and legal immigrants were eligible to attend public schools, I wonder if many of these problems wouldn't cease.

Every single illegal immigrant came here voluntarily knowing they were breaking US law and they know the consequences.
Of course this child was coached. Immigration should act and deport her illegal parent or parents immediately.

And retroactive? How far back do you plan to go? My great-grandparents didn’t become citizens until after they were here for 10 years (off the boat from Germany), and well after they had my grandparents. So I guess the next four generations, from my 90 yo grandfather to my 4 yo daughter, are all illegal. Munich, here we come! Hope we get there in time for Oktoberfest!

It’s good to see boarding school taught you logical thinking – your parents really got their money’s worth. You may have attended a private boarding school, but you certainly were not educated there.

The point is your grandparents became legal. Many illegals that are currently in the country have no intention of ever becoming legal citizens because they are too afraid of deportation by even initiating the proper paperwork. So, YES, there is a difference between illegal immigrants 90 years ago and illegal immigrants today.

You miss the point. My great-grandparents were never illegal, but they didn’t become naturalized citizens for about 10 years. My grandparents were never naturalized - their citizenship is based entirely on being born in this country, to immigrants who – at the time – were not citizens. So if citizenship can’t be based on birth location, they aren’t citizens, I guess. And since they aren’t, my parent aren’t, either, and neither am I, and neither is my daughter. Oops.

The point is not to argue that citizenship should be based on where a child is born (although I do believe kids born in the US should be citizens) – it’s to point out that retroactively stripping citizenship from individuals who are citizens because they were born here is both unworkable and asinine. If you can get enough right-wing whackos to agree with you, then change the law going forward. But stripping whole classes of people retroactively? Yeesh.

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"Care First BCBS in DC said there was a 10-month waiting period and to change insurance policies would have classified as a pre-existing condition, bear in mind I am also overdue right now. I gave up and accepted that I would have $15k+ in medical bills back in December. Luckily, my parents are adverse to helping me with the bills. I will look into Medicaid but I am pretty sure I make too much money. "


I'm not a lawyer but I know that there is some kind of law, and it may be only in DC, that a waiting period for pregnancy, calling it a pre-existing condition, and denying coverage to single women is illegal. The reason I'm so sure is that one of my first jobs there was an single pregnant woman and she had only been employed for a few months and the ins. co. tried to deny coverage (I think it was BCBS) and ins. co. didn't succeed. I know you don't feel like gettig into this right now but if your job is in DC, you might just turn over the right rock.

Insurance companies crap on people, particularly women, all the time. Case in point--WellPoint routinely cancels health insurance of pregnant women and newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Bastards.

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Anonymous wrote:"Care First BCBS in DC said there was a 10-month waiting period and to change insurance policies would have classified as a pre-existing condition, bear in mind I am also overdue right now. I gave up and accepted that I would have $15k+ in medical bills back in December. Luckily, my parents are adverse to helping me with the bills. I will look into Medicaid but I am pretty sure I make too much money. "


I'm not a lawyer but I know that there is some kind of law, and it may be only in DC, that a waiting period for pregnancy, calling it a pre-existing condition, and denying coverage to single women is illegal. The reason I'm so sure is that one of my first jobs there was an single pregnant woman and she had only been employed for a few months and the ins. co. tried to deny coverage (I think it was BCBS) and ins. co. didn't succeed. I know you don't feel like gettig into this right now but if your job is in DC, you might just turn over the right rock.

Insurance companies crap on people, particularly women, all the time. Case in point--WellPoint routinely cancels health insurance of pregnant women and newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Bastards.

I pay for my own coverage, I don't know if this makes a difference. I do not get health insurance through work because I am a freelance consultant. Big Bummer to not have Big Corporate X insurance!

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Let' just have a nice, sane immigration policy like Mexico's:

Militarize our Southern border, ask people for papers, and detain those who don't have them. JUST LIKE OUR LOVELY NEIGHBORS to the SOUTH do with their neighbors!

shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOn8RZZ5wuA&NR=1

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Anonymous wrote:Let' just have a nice, sane immigration policy like Mexico's:

Militarize our Southern border, ask people for papers, and detain those who don't have them. JUST LIKE OUR LOVELY NEIGHBORS to the SOUTH do with their neighbors!

shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOn8RZZ5wuA&NR=1

ITA

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I am a naturalized citizen from hispanic descent. I am a doctor and work on Public Health , and find it very intriguing that in this county clinics we are only seen illegal children and maternity patients. The children born here are left to see the few doctors that will accept Medicaid and from reading and this maternity patients keep on getting pregnant and coming back year after year, no kidding !! Sometimes they have 6 or 7 children and what infuriates me is that they use the older children as slaves to take care of the younger ones. This has to be stopped , we cant encourage people to have so many children , that they cannot take care of by giving them wellfare , this are the children that unfortunately latter on become criminals and steal on the street . This wellfare has to end at some point.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a naturalized citizen from hispanic descent. I am a doctor and work on Public Health , and find it very intriguing that in this county clinics we are only seen illegal children and maternity patients. The children born here are left to see the few doctors that will accept Medicaid and from reading and this maternity patients keep on getting pregnant and coming back year after year, no kidding !! Sometimes they have 6 or 7 children and what infuriates me is that they use the older children as slaves to take care of the younger ones. This has to be stopped , we cant encourage people to have so many children , that they cannot take care of by giving them wellfare , this are the children that unfortunately latter on become criminals and steal on the street . This wellfare has to end at some point.

I agree we only have one child and both me and my husband , we both work very hard, I have no clue how someone can have so many children and pay time and attention to all of them in this day and age. It is very scary thinking maybe this kids are left alone at home after school when their parents are at work.

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So why cant they find the little girls mom and help her start the paperwork instead of leaving her alone when they know it's illegal?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a naturalized citizen from hispanic descent. I am a doctor and work on Public Health , and find it very intriguing that in this county clinics we are only seen illegal children and maternity patients. The children born here are left to see the few doctors that will accept Medicaid and from reading and this maternity patients keep on getting pregnant and coming back year after year, no kidding !! Sometimes they have 6 or 7 children and what infuriates me is that they use the older children as slaves to take care of the younger ones. This has to be stopped , we cant encourage people to have so many children , that they cannot take care of by giving them wellfare , this are the children that unfortunately latter on become criminals and steal on the street . This wellfare has to end at some point.

Is this a troll?

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Anonymous wrote:So why cant they find the little girls mom and help her start the paperwork instead of leaving her alone when they know it's illegal?

To start the paperwork, she will have to go back to her country of origin, the apply and wait in line like everyone else. Chances are that she will be denied re-entry because she was here illegally.

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Anonymous wrote:So why cant they find the little girls mom and help her start the paperwork instead of leaving her alone when they know it's illegal?

To start the paperwork, she will have to go back to her country of origin, the apply and wait in line like everyone else. Chances are that she will be denied re-entry because she was here illegally.

And, what is wrong with this? This may seem quaint to so many of you but there are those who are legally awaiting entry to the US. I think they should be rewarded because they played by the rules. Isn't that a novel idea?