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On 26 December 1999, petitioner Benito Luna, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, arrived at the emergency room at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina, complaining of weakness and numbness in the lower extremities, erectile dysfunction, and bladder hesitancy. He was admitted to the hospital that same dayfor x-rays and an MRI of his thoracic spine. The MRI revealed an intramedullary spinal cord tumor at the T6 level, and doctors originally diagnosed petitioner as having medullary non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and later clarified the diagnosis as thoracic myelopathy with monoplegia in the lower limb and a malignant spinal cord neoplasm. On 28 December 1999, Luna underwent a thoracic laminectomy and resection of the spinal cord tumor. After the surgery, the petitioner was gradually mobilized and, on 3 January 2000, the hospital transferred him to its rehabilitation unit for a comprehensive rehabilitation program. At the time of petitioners transfer, 3 January 2000, his diagnosis was the same as in December. During petitioners ten-day period in the rehabilitation service, the consulting oncologist noted that he had no signs of other disease, but believed that he had a primary central nervous system lymphoma. The doctor recommended immediate treatment to include high doses of chemotherapy. On 14 January 2000, the rehabilitation service administered a Port-A-Cath to prepare petitioner for chemotherapy, and then transferred him to the hospitals oncology unit for intravenous chemotherapy. The oncology service then administered the treatment from 14 January through 24 January 2000, when petitioner was released to go home. Because the chemotherapy agent used in the course of petitioners treatment was highly toxic at the doses used, it had to be administered on an inpatient basis. After 24 January 2000, petitioner was readmitted to the hospital for theremaining doses of the chemotherapy treatment plan. Complete ruling 14 posted on 01/07/2004 5:29:45 AM PST by TaxRelief Post Reply Private Reply To 10 View Replies To: chris1 Exactly HOW is this President Bushs fault?
Now he is proposing Amnesty for Illegals, instead of enforcing the existing laws and having them rounded up and deported. He wants to use the money that you see taken out of your income go toward helping a class of people who are here illegally. Your immigrant ancestors will be rolling in the grave when they find out the hoops they had to jump through just to emigrate into this country have been eliminated, with entitlements provided to boot. This proposal is a slap in the face to everyone who went through Ellis Island. Why should I believe he would do otherwise when I can see what he has already done. So, on face we have a President who claims to be a conservative, yet in principle he acts like a socialist. Maybe its the eight years of Clinton that has desensitized us to the the point that we define Conservatism as someone who keeps his pants on and goes to church, irrelevant of whatever nonsense he does in office. I sense a major spit in the Republican Party if he continues as he has.
We hope that one change for 2004 takes the shape so needed of reform in the immigration laws. The undocumented workers have been for years the fuel of the economy of this nation. They do the badly-paid servant work, that most of the Americans no longer want to do. It is a situation from which the employers, the government and the economy in general benefit. Even so, these undocumented workers do not have access to the benefits that the American employees receive almost with certainty, like insurance of health, savings for the retirement and insurance of unemployment.
I have been an employer in the hospitality industry for more than a few of decades, at one point 3800 employees, and have employed more than my share of illegals. In the 60s in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, it was Greeks, Polish, and Lithuanians, even a few Russians, and Cubans. Most of these wonderful folks stayed long enough to establish a record of employment and opened their own businesses, or bought homes and learned English and blended into our lives as equals. In the 70s it was Middle Easterners, and in the south, it was the beginning of the heavy Mexican influx. In the 80s it began the Pacific Rim invasion, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and more Mexicans. The 90s was more Middle Easterners, and a lot more Central Americans, than Mexican. It became a joke and a pattern that we had a second shift of Muslims that would work Sundays and Holidays to keep the doors opened when everyone else wanted or just took those days off. My jobs were in the beginning, low paying, bottom rung, entry level jobs.
By then, we had changed the school calendar shorter summer vacation making training high school kids almost useless, child labor laws, under 16 unavailable, and with few exceptions blacks, welfare or single mom minorities, that wouldnt work longer than 26 weeks. It was far more insidious than just quitting after 26 weeks, they would fake an injury and file suit, or claim harassment, or labor claims against our company, costing thousands and keeping a law firm, not just a lawyer on the payroll the 4th largest line item on my P & L statement. For the most part, we kept these employees and raised their pay as they increased their effectiveness just to prevent the turnover. They would furnish us with relatives to replace themselves as they moved up the job ladder. NOBODY applied for these positions, and paying $12 an hour, plus benefits $6 more, for a dishwasher just doesnt work. These folks worked for $8, and would take home food, and learn a trade, cook, bellboy, bartender, waiter, and move up as soon as we taught them.
There is one huge difference betwen the people you write about and the illegal alien problem tiday. Most of the illegals today send much of their money home and only expect to make money here. Im all for legal immigration, as most immigrants have a burning desire to make a new life and work hard to do it. But today we have people coming here expecting to go on Gov assistance. I think some sort of temporary work visa is an excellent idea, BUT there has to be benefit restrictions. No SS benefits possibly collect SS taxes and apply it to their country of origin old age plan, emergency medical care only or thru an employer plan, children born to work visa holders are NOT United States citizens.
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