Con-servative thinking at work: US-born child of immigrants dies

[kevinbgoode]

Well, this just takes the cake for me. I understand the concern over illegal immigration, but when a child born in this country isn't treated for a casual illness because the parents are in fear of deportation, it is just outrageous. I do not understand. . .on any level. . .how and why people become human sacrifices for policy issues which are treated so flippantly by public officials in this country - particularly those con-artist con-servatives who continue to believe that every other human being on this planet is required to be fodder for their paranoid, fearmongering insecurities.

This story from AP this morning:

"TULSA, Oklahoma - Edgar Castorena had diarrhea for 10 days and counting, and the illegal immigrant parents of the 2-month-old did not know what to do about it.

They were afraid they would be deported under a new Oklahoma law if they took him to a major hospital. By the time they took him to a clinic, it was too late.

A ruptured intestine that might have been treatable instead killed the U.S.-born infant, making him a poster child for opponents of a bill months before it was enacted as the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007.

The law, billed by its backers as the toughest U.S. legislation against illegal immigration, took effect Nov. 1. It bars illegal immigrants from obtaining jobs or state assistance and makes it a felony to harbor or transport illegal immigrants.

"The sad part of it was the child didn't have to die if House Bill 1804 didn't ever come around," said Laurie Paul, who runs the clinic where Edgar was finally taken. "It was a total tragedy because the bill was there to create the myths and untruths and the fear."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22845808


Now I'm not going to sit here and declare that I have all the solutions for the immigration problems in this country - but this persecution of everything "brown" by the constantly-obsessed con-servatives is beyond the pale.

I'm beginning to think that con-artist con-servatives are the ultimate American welfare queens. They hate paying any taxes, yet love to spend government money, as long as it is on themselves. They'll steal the GLBT communities taxes to support hetero marriage benefits, hetero-only access (if you listen to con-servatives, they'll say con-servative-ONLY access) to serving in the taxpayer-funded military, they want the majority (those not living in con-servative-sanctioned 'family" units) to fork over money for con-servative ideal "families,"- ONLY. . .and then whine and whine if a penny of their own money goes to anything BUT themselves - unless it's for occupying another country.