"Ruis, a restaurant manager and a housekeeper, said the United States is the only place where Gracie, who has Down syndrome, can receive proper medical care.
'We're not asking for anything for free. We work and we pay taxes here. This is my seventh year paying taxes here,' Ruis said. 'We're not all bad.'"
While we sympathize and our hearts go out to anyone with a disabled child, we highly doubt that America is the only place in the entire world where people with Down's syndrome can receive the care appropriate to their needs, having seen many people with the same condition living happy, productive lives in our travels around the globe. Is Ruis now arguing that the U.S. must seek out and accept any person from around the world along with their family, simply because they share her child's affliction?
For a country with a supposedly "broken" health care system, we sure do have a tsunami of people trying to get here to take advantage of it. Providing mandated emergency health care for illegal aliens, many of whom are unlike what Ruis claims to be and don't pay any sort of taxes, is but one of the reasons why insurance premiums for law-abiding citizens are so high. As lucky and wealthy as our nation is, we simply can't provide the entire world population with adequate health care. At some point, the other nations are just going to have to step up and provide quality services of their own.
Even if her statement about not being able to find health care for her daughter somewhere else happened to be factual, Ms. Ruis was here illegally for at least six years before her daughter was born, according to her own statement. This revelation certainly tends to undercut her stated reasons for being allowed to remain in the country, by showing that she had no intention of returning home even before her child was conceived and born.
You certainly aren't a "bad" person, Ms. Ruis. You're just flagrantly breaking our immigration laws, and attempting to justify your continued presence by pointing to circumstances resulting from your own actions that occurred after you arrived here.
Sorry, we're not buying. Anchor babies, even disabled ones, should not be used as unwitting pawns by cynical illegal aliens to come up with some kind of justification to avoid being deported back to their home country.
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Actually, that's not her full name; it's probably about three times longer, and there are any number of people out there with the exact same name. Kinda like trying to find "Joe Smith who lives in my state."
But still infuriating, that's for sure.
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