Illegal Immigration

I recently read a deposition of an illegal alien from Mexico. While working as a laborer here he met a teenage girl, the daughter of another illegal alien, and got her pregnant. The teenager received her prenatal care from a government health clinic, paid for by the taxpayers. She complained of pain toward the end of her pregnancy and the clinic sent her to a hospital by ambulance. There were complications and she died during childbirth. The baby survived but with severe mental and physical deficiencies. The child cannot walk or speak and is fed through a feeding tube. The illegal alien who is the father of the baby and the illegal alien who is the mother of the teenager sued the hospital and received a six figure sum in settlement. The two illegal aliens are now suing the United States of America because they feel the teenage girl did not receive adequate prenatal care from the government health clinic. Every day a nurse and an occupational therapist paid for by our tax dollars visit the home to care for the child. When asked in the deposition what happened to the settlement money from the hospital, the illegal alien replied through the interpreter that he sent it to Mexico.

I immediately had two questions: Why haven't these people been deported and why wasn't the laborer charged with statutory rape? Do the laws of the United States that govern its citizens not apply to illegal aliens? It's hard to blame them for coming here to live and work; they receive free health care, make money to send back to Mexico, and they don't pay taxes. They even use our justice system to sue the very taxpayers who are supporting them. It is astounding to me that the American taxpayers aren't outraged over the illegal immigration problem.

And it is a problem. I have heard that it's not worth deporting illegal immigrants because they will just come back anyway. I have heard that we need them to do the jobs that Americans won't do. I have a solution. Create a privatized employment agency that will keep track of the Mexicans that come here to work. They will have work visas and they must pay taxes on their earnings. Another solution would be to implement the Fair Tax (see Neal Boortz' book, "The Fair Tax"). Through consumption of goods and services in this country the illegal immigrants would be paying taxes. If you are not a US citizen you should not have the right to file suit in this country, pure and simple. Finally, if you are an illegal alien and commit a crime, you should be immediately deported. I would much rather spend my tax dollars on the cost of deporting criminals than housing them at our cost in our country.

And by the way, illegal aliens are criminals! If you cross the border illegally you are breaking the laws of this country. It's time American citizens get their heads out of the sand and start paying attention to where their money is going.