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Republican state lawmakers in Arizona are proposing a law that would require hospitals to check whether a patient is in the country illegally. It’s as if they woke up one morning and thought, “What can we do to make Arizona more of a police state? Let’s see, we already make our cops stop people and ask for their green cards — but that’s hung up in the courts for now — so what could show the world, especially those damn Meskins, that we’re super-badasses? I’ve got it! Let’s catch people when they’re so sick they have to go to the hospital! Genius or what?”

The bill is vigorously opposed by many doctors and others in the medical field who say the law would keep some immigrants from seeking needed care. Which is true enough, but real ruff & tuff Amer’cans don’t give a rat’s ass about sick Meskins; plus why shouldn’t health care professionals and hospital workers be turned into immigration agents?

Arizona Senate President and Bad-ass Hombre Russell Pearce, a Republican, says the bill would “provide an important tool to fight illegal immigration” — and he’s right, in a way; specifically, in the way that Germans turning in their Jewish neighbors was “an important tool” in ridding that country of people the government thought were a menace. “We’re going to enforce our laws without apology,” Reichsmarschall Pearce, er, rather, Sen. Pearce told the Associated Press.

The bill was deleted from the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee agenda on Monday because of lack of support in that committee. Backers, however, say they will consider the bill in other committees.

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  1. MORE IMMIGRATION BILLS ON THE WAY

    Sen. Hatch’s (R-UT) this week will be introducing major legislation that will Strengthening Our Commitment to Legal Immigration and America’s Security Act, abolishing the Visa Lottery, strengthen interior enforcement, and require the implementation of an exit procedure for foreign visitors (of paramount importance to enforce) to the United States. By means this is not a perfect bill, but it face the major problems associated with the illegal alien invasion. The commitment comes in these forms: 1. Restrict the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security from issuing a mass amnesty to illegal immigrants through the use of delayed action. Deportation cases could only be deferred after being measured on a case-by-case basis. 2. Requires State, county and municipal police to participate in Secure Communities or 287(g) to fully conform to federal immigration enforcement agents.

    3. Requires the Department of Homeland Security to create a mandatory exit formula for all foreign visitors to the United States. 4. Eliminates the Visa Lottery that issues 50,000 green-cards despite of the individual’s educational or economic attainment. 5. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to draft a directive every year detailing the dollar amount of federal welfare benefits received by foreign national households in each state and in Washington DC. 6. Allows states to maintain receiving federal matching dollars for covering legal immigrant children and legal immigrant pregnant women, but only after the state has provided the federal government with evidence that at least 90% of its eligible U.S. citizen children and expectant women have been covered by either CHIP or Medicaid. 7. Allows authorities to charge individuals who have used stolen identities, who are also being charged with another felony, to be charged with aggravated identity theft.

    However Senator Hatch doesn’t cover the massive expenditures endured by hard working taxpayers, whose money is extracted by the IRS to pay for the annual projection of 300.000 pregnant mothers who enter America via the airports, ships or across the poorly fenced border regions. Now relating to this issue of birthright citizenship for any female who can slip across our borders, the Republican Party has introduced a bill to close this loophole, by an amendment or revision of the 14th Amendment. Of course this controversial Amendment is causing consternation through both political parties, specifically the Liberal progressives, all though their rants have not halted over the 63 co-sponsors of H.R.140. http://tinyurl.com/4loovmq

    Titled the Birthright citizenship act has become a multiple billion dollar entitlement that must be reduced. The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 would add to the existing federal code, a rider that requires at least one parent of a new born to be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident in order for the new born to receive instant citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment extends citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and “subject to the jurisdiction”; but it also grants Congress the empowerment to enforce and define the provisions of the amendment. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Congress has defined Birthright Citizenship through appropriate legislation, which for decades has granted citizenship to newborns with both parents’ illegal aliens, foreign tourists or temporary foreign job seekers and students.

    The Fourteenth Amendment gives Congress the right to define birthright citizenship differently. As an addition to stopping undisclosed clandestine amnesties Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) has introduced H.R. 692 that would purge the extended family visa categories (e.g., married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.), thus ending “chain migration” as suggested by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1997. Current immigration law allows U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to sponsor non-nuclear, adult family members, creating an endless chain of mass legal immigration, which has snowballed. Rep. Gingrey’s bill would end this practice by disallowing all adult family members from receiving legal permanent residency. America has always been sympathetic to the refugees and asylum seekers, but the unfettered movement of economic illegal immigrants is out of control and diluting in large dollars to the GDP.

    The original Ronald Reagan 1986 amnesty was truly a travesty of our laws, which were intentionally neglected by the US Government and the employers. You can do your part as a voter and as pro-sovereignty American to stop this behemoth drain on the federal and municipalities that are straining to offer entitlements to seniors, veterans and other poverty stricken categories. We can no longer accept illegal aliens to our table as free meals, health care, education. Call your local Representative and more so you’re Congressional House or Senate member through the Washington Switchboard 202-224-3121. Join your own local Tea Party to fight these years of indifference to the American taxpayer. Explore the Pdf file “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine.” http://tinyurl.com/o6r27

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  2. If someone comes into the ER with gun shot wounds don’t hospitals report this to the cops so basically Groomy is getting all upset over a situation that already exists.

  3. It sounds as if Arizona is going insane with prejudice. Also, reporting that someone has been shot is nowhere near the same thing as having to ask a ton of patients to show you their papers. For hospital workers, this would be just one more stupid bureaucratic hoop to have to jump through, and those folks are busy enough, in case you don’t know. Medicine and doctors and nurses are for healing, not for enforcing laws.

  4. Such a law would be nothing short of legislated murder.

    Won’t be long until concentration camps start popping up in Arizona.

    For a group that always seems to harangue on their moral superiority the Right in this country very rarely, if ever, actually demonstrates it. Disgusting conduct from these clowns as per usual.

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