What right do those who break the law have to tell those who abide by the law what to do and when to do it and how to do it?


MALDEF files civil rights lawsuit in Albuquerque
Last Update: 05/25/2005 12:54:23 PMBy: Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A Hispanic advocacy group has sued the -S Border Patrol and Albuquerque’s public school district and police.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund alleges three Hispanic students’ constitutional rights to an education were violated.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in US District Court in Albuquerque.
The lawsuit says the Del Norte High School students were questioned in March 2004 by a police officer and school administrators.
The lawsuit says the US Border Patrol was called to campus after it was learned the students were illegal immigrants.
The students have been ordered to leave the US by June 1st. The lawsuit contends that campuses are safe havens for students.
School, police and border patrol officials decline comment.

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:26 a.m. EDT
Health Care for Illegals Costing U.S. Millions
Undocumented immigrants and residents of northern Mexico who seek medical care in the U.S. are costing Americans hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
All along the U.S.-Mexico border, American hospitals are the place Mexicans go when they need care.

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:26 a.m. EDT
Health Care for Illegals Costing U.S. Millions
Undocumented immigrants and residents of northern Mexico who seek medical care in the U.S. are costing Americans hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
All along the U.S.-Mexico border, American hospitals are the place Mexicans go when they need care.
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In an emergency, friends or relatives will drive a stricken resident of a border town in Mexico to a U.S. checkpoint - and U.S. ambulances will take the sick individual to a U.S. hospital, where the person is treated and is sometimes sent to more sophisticated facilities for further work, a report in USA Today reveals.
In some cases pregnant women cross the border after going into labor, seeking good medical care and citizenship for their newborn children.
Arizona has been especially hard hit since the mid-1990s, when U.S. border crackdowns in Texas and California resulted in more illegal immigrants seeking entry along the state’s 350-mile border with Mexico.
The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association took a survey and discovered that in 2002, Arizona medical centers reported losses of over $150 million due to treatment of foreign convalescents.
In Tucson, 75 miles north of the border, the University Medical Center will lose $12 million treating Mexicans because they will never be able to pay back the costs of their care.
Hospitals do use international collection companies to pursue payments, but most costs go uncollected, reports USA Today. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/25/95606.shtml

What about my right to medical care or my families/your families right to care?

Group gets mixed results in D.C. trip
By Fernando Quintero And Matthew A. White, Rocky Mountain NewsMay 25, 2005
WASHINGTON - A group of Denver-area community leaders - including illegal immigrants - who traveled to the nation's capital Tuesday to meet with elected officials on such issues as immigration policy and education reform had mixed reviews.
Most surprising was the reception they got from U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, R-Colo., the only elected representative who actually met with the group. The other political leaders from Colorado they were scheduled to meet with, including Sens. Ken Salazar, a Democrat, and Wayne Allard, a Republican, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, sent aides instead.
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3803649,00.html
"We received no answers. We feel like we are leaving empty-handed," said Sharon Bridgeforth, an organizer with Metro Organizations for People.
In addition to immigration policy, the Denver group was in the nation's capital to seek support for better health care for children, home ownership tax credits, education reform and public safety.
[ What about my rights to home ownership tax credits/ low mortgage rate loans, education, and my safety?]

AND ON A SUB NOTE TO SHOW IT JUST ISN'T HISPANICS BREAKING THE LAW TO COME HERE. FROM THE VICTORIAN ADVOCATE IN TEXAS.

http://victoriaadvocate-proxy.nandomedia.com/local/local/story/2803313p-3246198c.html

Illegal Asian immigrants caught in Goliad County
May 25, 2005ROBIN M. FOSTERVictoria Advocate
GOLIAD - Goliad County wrote a new chapter Tuesday in its ongoing dealings with human smuggling. Sheriff Robert DeLaGarza said more than a dozen Asians who appear to be illegal immigrants were caught traveling through south Goliad County by a deputy patrolling an area north of Sarco.
DeLaGarza said the suspected illegals had passports from the Republic of China. It appears they are obtaining passports to enter Mexico as tourists, then making their way to the United States border, he said.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who picked up the immigrants later in the day told DeLaGarza the agency is seeing more and more Chinese coming across the Mexican border.
A spokesman for U.S. Border Patrol confirmed that 13 Chinese illegal immigrants were picked up in Goliad County. Rogelio Cervantes, spokesman for the Rio Grande Sector of U.S. Border Patrol, said they will be held for deportation proceedings from the agency's Corpus Christi station.
DeLaGarza's department, as well as the sheriff's departments in neighboring Refugio and Bee counties, has been working with residents of the Sarco area in south Goliad County to crack down on the flow of illegal immigrants through their community. Residents there are concerned that the human smugglers who are driving the illegals through could also be transporting drugs, weapons or terrorists.
DeLaGarza said Deputy Jim Garner was on patrol when he spotted the vehicle containing the Chinese immigrants headed north on Farm-to-Market Road 2441. As he pursued the pick-up, the driver stopped and fled into the brush, DeLaGarza said. The deputy found about 10 people hiding in the rear of the pick-up under a burlap tarp. Three others, all young women, were riding inside the truck, he said. All of the people appear to be in their teens and early 20's, the sheriff said.