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March 08, 2010 Illegal Immigrants Take Treatment Spots from Floridians "Mentally ill patients are being placed on waiting lists for treatment because Florida's mental health institutions are crowded with illegal immigrants. The crisis puts Florida at the forefront of a national debate over whether illegal immigrants should enjoy the same rights to public health care as legal residents," the Bradenton Herald reported. "Bob Dane, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., which wants to reduce immigration, said legal residents should not have to wait for health care given to undocumented immigrants. 'The tremendous surge of illegal immigrants has put a strain on the health industry,' he said. Florida has no choice but to pursue deportation options, he said. 'Is it really fair to deny legal residents care to give treatment to illegal residents?' he said."
Investor Programs Offer Expensive Route to Green Cards "You've got half a million dollars. You crave the American dream. May I interest you in a green card? This may sound like a back-alley deal, but this is the arrangement thousands of wealthy foreigners have made with the U.S. government. The EB-5 visa offers a path to citizenship in exchange for investing in an American business. The numbers of these types of visas issued in the past two years have tripled, and around half of the visas are being snatched up by wealthy Chinese," NPR reports. FAIR president Dan Stein said the program could be valuable, "If there was some evidence that they were actually doing something besides just ponying up some cash in exchange for a green card. But it's essentially a pay-to-play system: You put up the money, you get a green card."
Irish Illegal Aliens Demand Amnesty Too "Irish immigrants would like lawmakers and the public to know that the debate over immigration reform is not about one single group. Speaking in Denver yesterday, Irish American Ciaran Staunton, president of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, said people often forget that of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in America, at least 50,000 of them are from Ireland," the Denver Daily News says. "We really do not need anymore immigration with 10 percent unemployment," former Rep. Tom Tancredo said. "I couldn't care less about the source of the illegal immigration, but I'm certainly concerned about the impact of it."
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