Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Other Side of Illegal Immigration

[Editor's note: This story was told to me by my new friend, Julia.] Just another example of illegal aliens working jobs that Americans won't lower themselves to do, right? BULL! These people cross the border because THEY DON'T WANT TO WORK!! They want the freebies!

When my oldest son was 13, he was hit by a hit/run driver inside our apartment complex. They found the woman, hiding in her boyfriend's apartment, pretending to have been asleep in a back bedroom. She was illegal, but had 3 anchor babies & was getting subsidized rent, welfare w/food stamps & Medi-Cal, utilities assistance & more, while not having bothered to even TRY to learn English, and of course, having no driver's license or, heaven forbid, CAR insurance. It wasn't even her car, and the owner wasn't who was last registered, either. That owner also had a Hispanic surname, and also had no insurance or current registration. I was at every court hearing for her, and her attorney tried to say, "Well, you have insurance, so why should she be liable for medical bills?" GRRR!! She ended up w/a slap on the wrist; only having to pay back a restitution of 3k over 3 years, and if she missed a payment, she was supposed to be remanded to jail for her sentence. She DID miss payments, but she was never put in jail.

This happened 17 years ago, and her kids have since grown up to become members of La Raza or Mencha or whatever, I'm sure. My son, who's 30 now, had to be Life-Flighted to Children's Hospital in San Diego. I couldn't go with him, so my brother had to come and get me to drive me to the hospital. When I got there, and got to him, he still had glass slivers sticking out of his face, including his lips, which were so dry! He wanted a drink, but he couldn't have one. But due to the glass in his face/lips, I couldn't even use a lemon swab on his mouth. I pulled the glass I could get out of his face with my fingers. He'd had a CT scan, and they found he was very fortunate; he had a bruised/swollen/leaky spleen, but though it came close, it didn't rupture. He had a concussion, a broken wrist, and multiple abrasions/contusions. He was able to recover completely. I don't know that I have, though!