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Fed-up Californians seek to join
immigrant accountability suit
by: Craig
Nelsen
http://projectusa.org/ezine/2004/07-29-californians_flocking_FILE_suit.html
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Immigration
extremist, Rep. David Drier (left) voted
against H.R. 3722, a bill introduced by
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher that would
have required hospitals to report illegal
aliens accessing certain health services
in violation of federal law. 
Immigration
moderate, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (right)
has publicly endorsed the FILE suit, which
would accomplish much of what the FILE LA
County suit would, if successful.After hearing about it on the John and Ken Show, an influential Los Angeles talk radio program, over one hundred Californians have contacted Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement (FILE) seeking to join FILE's legal effort to force the county to bill sponsors of legal immigrants for certain public health services the immigrants access.
The petition, Anderson v Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS), is asking a California Superior Court judge to order the mammoth agency to comply with a 1996 federal law that requires public service providers to seek reimbursement for the full cost of certain public benefits consumed by immigrants with sponsors.
After Fox News ran a story on the court case, the John and Ken Show, an influential Los Angeles-based talk radio program, picked up the story, resulting in what has to be the immigration extremists' greatest fear: a flood of Californians asking to join the suit.
The suit is structured in such a way that the county has been forced to make an interesting choice.
The county can agree to the FILE suit and begin sending bills for payment -- as required by federal law -- to the sponsors of legal immigrants for the public services they consume. But that would mean asking for, and recording, the immigration status of public health consumers in L.A. County -- including illegal alien consumers.
Or, the county can choose to fight the FILE suit. But that would mean using taxpayer money to defend a policy that not only flies in the face of congressional prerogative and federal law, but institionalizes a practice costing county taxpayers millions of dollars per year.
In other words, the county could begin collecting immigration
data, and thereby remove the great obstacle to enforcement
of the federal laws prohibiting public benefits for
illegal aliens, or the county could use taxpayer money
to defend in court a policy that prevents sending bills
to people who have already agreed to pay them, for services
rendered to people with no legal right to use them,
and, while shutting down clinics meant to serve Americans
in need, sticks taxpayers with the bill for a policy
that infuriates them.
Risking public outrage, the county chose the latter option. Judging by the number of Californians wishing to join the FILE suit, the county may have made a very unwise choice.
+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+
Los Angeles County is governed by a board of five supervisors, one of whom, Supervisor Gloria Molina, will strongly resist FILE's efforts to compel compliance with federal immigration law.
Molina, a long-time race-identity activist with close ties to questionable figures, is a major reason some parts of California now appear to many Americans as regions nearly in open revolt against the authority of the United States.
During
a July
13 meeting of the Board of Supervisors (video,
Agenda item 32), while addressing whether county
sheriff's personnel should determine the immigration
status of prisoners, Molina made a distinction between
the "partnerships" Los Angeles County has
with immigration enforcement authorities on the one
hand and with the public on the other, juxtaposing them
as if U.S. immigration authorities and "the public"
are hostile and competing forces.
For Molina, Los Angeles County's "partnership with the federal government today is to allow them into our jails and to conduct these interviews" with prisoners to determine whether they are illegal aliens.
But that's as far as she's willing to go (though she has no problem allowing American taxpayers to bail out the Los Angeles County health system on a regular basis).
Los Angeles County's partnership with the United States may require the county "to allow them" to enforce U.S. law inside county jails, but the county's "partnership with the public is how we respond to the issues before us," Molina said in the meeting, as if the public has an interest in refusing to identify illegal aliens.
"We are a government that serves our county residents and, as we are going out to our county voters and asking them to increase their sales tax in order to provide more security, the partnership is with those residents, not with the federal government," she said, adding the typical argument that identifying illegals in the jails will render Los Angeles too terrified of the police to report crimes.
But now that the county is fighting a legal battle to keep from identifying illegal aliens in the hospitals, too, one suspects Molina is motivated more by demographic goals than civic-mindedness. Well-meaning Americans need to pause for a minute, put aside the soundbite philosophies, and think soberly what that means coming from a woman who once said:
Our [Latino] vote is going to be important. But
I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, 'I'm
going to go out there and vote because I want to pay
them back!
Supervisor Gloria Molina
213 974 4111
+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+
Sup. Mike Antonovich: In order to be reimbursed, you have to identify [illegal aliens].
Sup. Gloria Molina: That is not true.
Board meeting
July 13, 2004
+== EMAIL OF THE WEEK ==+
Who do you think you are! You seem to forget that this is Native American Indian land not Migrated European land, so if you don't like what's going on with immigration take your tired ass and go back to your original country and bitch their, I'm tired of you little mama's boy's and girl's who don't have anything to do but cry because your scared you won't be able to play your f_ckin nintendo or shop at the gap because somebody else just want's their kid to eat. If dumb ass's like you would take the money you get to put up your fancy little websites and help those people in other country's maybe they wouldn't have to come here! You talk about being a cristian (ha,ha, ha) I don't think jesus would feel the same way as you, seeing as god created all men equal but I guess you wouldn't care because your just a f_ckin hypocryte! Just thought I would voice my opinion seeing as you find it neccasary to voice yours.
LORETTA LOPEZ
lorettapalaceta@hotmail.com
Issue 199
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