CBS under fire over ILLEGAL ALIENS report

[DISGUSTED]

Recently, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reported on the staggering costs of health care for illegal immigrants, the bill for which, of course, is entirely footed by the American taxpayer. Now, Mexican groups like La Raza are up in arms over the report, which they claim promoted "anti-Latino falsehoods" and "demonized" illegal aliens.
In the report, CBS reporter Byron Pitts talked with a pregnant Mexican woman who underwent an emergency C-section at a south Texas hospital. This woman did not pay anything for the $4,700 procedure because she qualifies for emergency Medicaid. The report also pointed out a study estimating that Americans are forced to pay are you ready for this?-$1.1 billion per year for illegal immigrants' health care.
Of course, the illegal immigrant groups like La Raza and others had no facts to counter what they called the "anti-Latino falsehoods" in the CBS report. I guess we have to assume that it's just not fair to point out the negatives about the growing illegal population in our country.
Here's the most outrageous part: I looked into the Rand Corporation (a non-profit global policy think tank) study that the CBS report was based on, and La Raza is right the CBS report was inaccurate. In fact, the report UNDER ESTIMATED the size of the financial kick-in-the-teeth that the American taxpayer is getting from illegal Mexican immigrants.
According to the statistics that appeared on-screen during the CBS report, the $1.1 billion per year was what taxpayers were paying for "all undocumented men, women, and children." However, the Rand study said the $1.1 billion tally was the healthcare costs ONLY for "non-elderly participants those between 18 and 64."
So the TRUE cost of illegal immigrant healthcare in this country is likely SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER than the $1.1 billion claimed in the report. Take, for example, the child born during that emergency C-section mentioned in the CBS report. He or she will have 17 years of healthcare (not to mention the cost of postnatal care at the south Texas hospital where she was born) that won't be factored into Rand's figures.
Bob Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute, called the CBS report a breath of fresh air, considering that most media coverage is largely biased heavily in favor of illegal immigrants.
"The mainstream media has pretended that there is no cost or downside to the millions of people coming over the border illegally," Knight said. "So these groups are trying to intimidate Couric and her colleagues at the major networks."
Knight rightly points out that America's left-leaning media essentially approves of the massive influx of illegal aliens as a way to increase the Democratic voter base. According to Knight, liberals think that once illegal aliens are enrolled in liberal welfare programs and government subsidies, they will eventually become what he calls "a new generation of Democratic voters."

Quite frankly, groups like La Raza make me ill. These people routinely have the gall to march through the streets of American cities carrying MEXICAN FLAGS while they are demanding the rights and privileges that are afforded only to AMERICAN CITIZENS. What's more, when protesting the CBS News report, a group similar to La Raza called the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) threatened the network by saying, "If CBS is playing to immigration hawks to boost its sagging ratings, the network risks being tuned out by the expanding Latino community. Advertisers know that by 2011, Hispanic buying power will total $1.2 trillion, almost 10 percent of all U.S. purchasing power."
So ignore the facts or else? Charming. Isn't it nice that people like this have graced our nation with their presence? We can only hope that someone in our government will seal the borders before it's too late.
One mad Americano,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

[yeppers]

Now think of all that time you wasted, "Doc".

Get a job, immigrant.

[proxy gets the suplex]

post the link instead of wasting bandwidth.

[judgejay]

CBS is right about this. I have to agree with Doc.Douglass we should all be mad about illegals and the costs of the medical care they recieve.

[DAW]

Ahem, he also mentioned the trillion dollar US buying power that they have.
Do you really want to see what happens to our economy if they all leave?
Letting them stay is a win win!

[Common Tater]

The pro-illegal alien apologist nutjobs hate these facts.

Watch while they fail to disprove the numbers.......

ANY amount of taxpayer money used for illegal aliens is an abomination.

[Common Tater]

DAW wrote:

Ahem, he also mentioned the trillion dollar US buying power that they have.
Do you really want to see what happens to our economy if they all leave?
Letting them stay is a win win!

It mentions Hispanic buying power..not illegal aliens, who send money that they illegally earn in the US, out of the country.

Ahem.

[Nemesys]

"This woman did not pay anything for the $4,700 procedure because she qualifies for emergency Medicaid."

What even CBS and most folks don't realize is that the $4700 Medicaid payment - paid by taxpayers - did not cover all the costs. Since Medicaid pays roughly 80 cents on the dollar, there's about $1000 that this nonprofit hospital had to make up for by charging its paying customers more, which drives up healthcare costs for businesses and people who pay their own share of healthcare costs.

[ILLEGALS R KEWL]

Common Tater wrote:

The pro-illegal alien apologist nutjobs hate these facts.
Watch while they fail to disprove the numbers.......
ANY amount of taxpayer money used for illegal aliens is an abomination.

yawn.

I'm SO f'kn bored with 2 years of this repetitive cr@p.

we could have colonized MARS with the amount of money wasted in Iraq...but little men like you feel more comfortable taking on stone masons and motel maids.

[Last American Cowboy]

ILLEGALS R KEWL wrote:

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yawn.
I'm SO f'kn bored with 2 years of this repetitive cr@p.
we could have colonized MARS with the amount of money wasted in Iraq...but little men like you feel more comfortable taking on stone masons and motel maids.

Well in that case,you know how we all feel about listening to your drivel for 2 years.At one time stone masons made alot of money,today,for the most part it's nothing more than a $100.00 a day laborers job.

[Common Tater]

Nemesys wrote:

"This woman did not pay anything for the $4,700 procedure because she qualifies for emergency Medicaid."
What even CBS and most folks don't realize is that the $4700 Medicaid payment - paid by taxpayers - did not cover all the costs. Since Medicaid pays roughly 80 cents on the dollar, there's about $1000 that this nonprofit hospital had to make up for by charging its paying customers more, which drives up healthcare costs for businesses and people who pay their own share of healthcare costs.

Excellent point.

All taxpayers and are forced to pick up the tab.
Illegal aliens are a net loss to America. The illegals here are largely a very needy, uneducated class of people, who take far more than they will ever put back.

Any country has the right to choose who enters and who stays. A country without secure borders and enforced immigration laws simply cannot last.
America cannot take in all of the people who wish to come here. Illegals slap the faces of those who have followed our laws and came here abiding by our laws.
Even a lifeboat will sink when it becomes overfilled.

[Common Tater]

Last American Cowboy wrote:

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Well in that case,you know how we all feel about listening to your drivel for 2 years.At one time stone masons made alot of money,today,for the most part it's nothing more than a $100.00 a day laborers job.

Perfectly said!
And sadly, very true.

(BTW...Pay no attention the the board troll.)

[bunker buster]

Last American Cowboy wrote:

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Well in that case,you know how we all feel about listening to your drivel for 2 years.At one time stone masons made alot of money,today,for the most part it's nothing more than a $100.00 a day laborers job.

100 dollars a day non-taxed is 25,000 take home, which is like the equivalent of $42,000 a year job. I would say that's pretty good.

[StopHatinOthers]

Common Tater wrote:

The pro-illegal alien apologist nutjobs hate these facts.
Watch while they fail to disprove the numbers.......
ANY amount of taxpayer money used for illegal aliens is an abomination.

You're not qualified to put adjectives and nouns together.

[Jeremy]

DAW wrote:

Letting them stay is a win win!

Lie Lie!

[DAW]

Common Tater wrote:

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It mentions Hispanic buying power..not illegal aliens, who send money that they illegally earn in the US, out of the country.
Ahem.

Ahem, the illegals spend their money here also.
Ahem, the illegals would be inclined to open bank accounts here if they knew for sure they had a future here.
The times have changed and policy needs to follow.

[DAW]

Jeremy wrote:

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Lie Lie!

No,no!

[Last American Cowboy]

bunker buster wrote:

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100 dollars a day non-taxed is 25,000 take home, which is like the equivalent of $42,000 a year job. I would say that's pretty good.

Then you have no idea what good is.I don't know anyone who makes $42,000,that pays $17,000.00 a year in taxes.Also like it was stated earlier,alot of that money is sent out of the country.And people that make $42,000.00 a year have health insurance or are forced to pay their medical bill,or it goes to a collection agency,and you have a bad mark on your credit report.I expected a bettr or at least,logical argument from you Petey boy.

[he txts sk8rz]

Common Tater wrote:

(BTW...Pay no attention the the board troll.)

FYI- he's the epithet spouting proxy server racist. As well as a renowned local pedophile.

[Last American Cowboy]

DAW wrote:

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Ahem, the illegals spend their money here also.
Ahem, the illegals would be inclined to open bank accounts here if they knew for sure they had a future here.
The times have changed and policy needs to follow.

The only businesses that profit from the illegal alien trade are liquor stores,bars,bodegas,and walmart.Oh yeah,and the local brothels.
The illegals don't want bank accounts,that would leave a paper trail.