I never said, here or in my previous posts, that Latinos were lazy. Although it IS true that there is a period of time when they ARE dependent on the government and other sources.
I was shot in a robbery in 2011 and lived on disability from 2015 through earlier this year, and I can attest that although many African Americans and other American natives who have crummy health plans and little to no income, an almost equal number of Latinos are on public assistance and occupy the charities and government assistant programs for payment of utility bills, medical costs, etc
I am not saying they are lazy, or live frivilously. Many of them are just eking out a living any way they can.
What IS apparent is that the overwhelming majority of those who enter our country illegally do not have health insurance and use ERs, charities, and other resources for healthcare needs.
I live in Memphis, not particularly known for its Hispanic population—but the ERs are mostly Latinos, many of whom do not speak English. I have never found a roofer or gardener of Latin American origin which carries insurance for themselves or their employees. Most churches carry health needs and other services for undocumented Central American and Mexican migrants—and they are nearly deplenished of all resources no matter what the budget.
We have many disabled and many below the poverty level who do not get basic services for their survival. I took care of a disabled woman (a former Easter Seals poster child) who had been neglected by the system for many years until she finally passed away in 2012. I attribute the endless health care debacles, always trying to put her on the least expensive meds and government programs, to her death. But she was only getting $23 a month for food. Large immigrant families consume far more with their children and seniors than this woman did. We have plenty of poor in this country already, and most of the migrant families do not have the job skills or language skills to improve this situation much, no matter how hard they work—and yes, they DO work hard. Or have some member of the family who does.
No one is cold hearted enough to not want to help. But to have so many millions storming our borders, first sending their children and spearheading them, then bringing other relatives through chain migration—our resources do not permit the entirity of the world’s poor entering the U.S. for a better life.
We in America are about one gum ball in a gum ball machine of the world’s needy poor. Maybe 1/100th or a 99:1 ratio—and are still doing more to help the world’s poor than any other nation or agency in the world.
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