| Hypocritic oath | ||
| SB81 denies health-care services | ||
| Tribune Editorial Salt Lake Tribune | ||
| Updated:04/22/ | ||
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| The clock is ticking. On July 1, Utah's ill-advised, inhumane law to curb illegal immigration will take effect. And, like the proverbial sand through the hour glass, our compassion and decency toward our fellow human beings will run out. Then another clock will start ticking, this one counting down the days until emergency room visits begin to rise and members of Utah's 110,000-strong undocumented immigrant community will begin to sicken from preventable, treatable diseases and conditions. Denying government-funded benefits to undocumented residents, despite their valuable contributions to our society and economy, is the most heinous provision in Utah Senate Bill 81. It's a public-health disaster in the making. State and local agencies that administer government-funded public health-care programs will be required to verify the residency status of individuals seeking treatment. And people who falsely apply could face prosecution. There are exceptions to the rule. Federally mandated services like emergency room treatment and immunizations, plus testing and treatment for communicable diseases, will still be available to all. But without costly public outreach programs, these exceptions may not become widely known, and undocumented residents may steer clear of available services out of fear of deportation, to the detriment of us all. If denied services at health clinics, patients will be forced to seek emergency care at hospitals when conditions worsen, and that's an expensive alternative to existing government-subsidiz Plus, the potential for outbreaks of communicable diseases and illnesses, which could go undetected and untreated in adults or be spread by unvaccinated children, is a specter we can only hope to avoid. For the ideologues who dominate the Utah Legislature, illegal is illegal, and laws are made to be enforced. They see no moral or fiscal dilemma here. They see immigration issues in black and white. But that's not the case for some health-care professionals. A physician's assistant with a nonprofit health clinic told The Tribune that he currently provides care to all comers. "They're human beings. It doesn't matter if they're legal or not." But beginning July 1, it will matter. And we'll all suffer the consequences of that decision. |
| A broken law | ||
| Undocumented have roots here | ||
| Tribune Editorial Salt Lake Tribune | ||
| Updated:04/17/ | ||
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| Some Americans would like to see all illegal immigrants deported, sent back to Mexico or wherever they came from. That may sound like a simple and just solution to the problem of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. But it would be a ridiculously simple solution to a very complex problem. In other words, it would be no solution at all. A new study by the Pew Hispanic Center shows why there is no simple way of dealing with illegal immigration and no humane way to deport all those immigrants who are already here, trying to support themselves and their families. It argues in favor of some form of guest-worker program to let them stay and eventually become citizens, as President Barack Obama proposes. According to the study, three-quarters of the children of the nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants estimated to live in the United States as of March last year were born in this country and are American citizens. That's 4 million young Americans who would lose their parents and older siblings if all immigrants here without papers were sent home. Such an improbable scenario would be costly, and ripping families apart would be unpalatable to most Americans. Further, failing to give undocumented residents some form of legal status is also creating an expensive subclass of people in this country, since, the report estimates, more than half of undocumented immigrants live in poverty, even though the adults in such families work hard, often holding down two jobs apiece. That's because their illegal status relegates them to the lowest-paying jobs in our society, and keeps them from moving up the wage scale. Also complicating the situation is the fact that undocumented immigrant families are often large, with many children. Undocumented immigrants are more likely than either U.S.-born residents or legal immigrants to live in a household with children. The number of undocumented immigrants grew faster in Utah than in the rest of the country -- nearly 16 percent from 2005 to 2008, double the national rate. Utah is one of 10 states with more school-age children who have at least one undocumented parent than the national average, between 7.6 percent and 9.9 percent. Clearly, they've put down roots here. America is a nation of immigrants. Our broken immigration laws have allowed, even encouraged, desperate people to move here illegally. It's time the federal government fixed this fractured law and gave them a way to earn citizenship. |
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