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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"George Washington Admirer" |
| Date: |
13 Oct 2006 10:58:23 PM |
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Mex Govt officials to illegals in US: GO ON FOOD STAMPS! |
For anyone in the least bit familiar with the degenerate character of
the elites-owned Narco-Government of Mexico (home of the world's third
richest man, nine other billionaires and untold numbers of millionaires
-- see http://www.vdare.com/awall/060510_memo.htm) the thought of a
Mexican government official openly urging his countrymen who snuck into
the USA illegally to begin with to then obtain welfare benefits once
inside the country is so dishonorable as to be unbelievable.
Keep in mind that this is the SAME Mexico so notorious for its
stinginess towards Americans in life-or-death situations within its
borders that in just the past few years alone several U.S. citizens
who'd been in automobile accidents in that country have died after
their U.S.-based families were unable to come up with, or wire quickly
enough, the exhorbitant amounts of CASH demanded by Mexico before it
would provide medical care to the American or transport them to a
hospital.
"The agreement led Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro to tout the
food stamp program on Univision's KMEX Channel 34 six weeks ago. The
newscast included the partnership's phone number. More than 1,200
people called the partnership in the following days ..."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stamp13oct13,0,171430,full.story
?coll=la-home-headlines
Food-Stamp Program Finally Speaks Their Language
KMEX helps an effort to get Latino immigrants to apply for food stamps.
An O.C. group takes it a step further and offers a class on how to do
it.
By Jennifer Delson
Times Staff Writer
October 13, 2006
Though it goes against the conventional wisdom of anti-illegal
immigration supporters, those who enroll the poor in the federal food
stamp program say they've struggled for years to get immigrant Latino
families signed up.
Now a Spanish-language news report and television ad campaign have
spurred thousands of immigrants in Orange County over the last several
weeks to contact a nonprofit organization that offers a
Spanish-language class called "Food Stamps in Four Hours."
The stream of immigrants contrasts sharply with what was going on just
a few months ago when only a handful of immigrants would attend the
free course.
The news report and ads were heard throughout Southern California, but
those who responded in Orange County were directed to a nonprofit
organization. Most other callers to the toll-free number were directed
to county offices.
The Orange County strategy has been lauded throughout the state as a
way to reach immigrants who are reluctant to get help from the
government.
"They won't come on their own," said Jerry Sanders, food bank manager
of the nonprofit Community Action Partnership of Orange County in
Garden Grove. "They come from countries where they think the government
isn't to be trusted. They figure there's a catch to free food."
Advocates say immigrants, if here illegally, are also worried about
being deported if they apply for food stamps. Or they fear jeopardizing
a pending application for residency or citizenship. Illegal immigrants
can apply on behalf of their minor children here legally.
Other immigrants say they were simply embarrassed.
"The Mexican man is macho. He doesn't want to come to this country and
beg," said Alfonso Chavez, the Community Action Partnership's outreach
coordinator. "I tell them this is a program that will help the
children. The kids are American-born, and they have a right to this
program."
A Los Angeles County Department of Social Services task force is
looking at ways to find eligible families to enroll. County workers
have signed up families at food banks with only minor success.
"We recognize that people in Orange County are ahead of us," said task
force member Bruce Rankin, the executive director of the Westside Food
Bank in Los Angeles. "The rest of us in the state are looking at Orange
County for ideas." Low participation, he said, "is a dilemma in the
state."
The federal government estimates 60% of eligible households participate
in the food stamp program nationally. In California, the participation
rate drops sharply. A study of 2003 participation rates by Mathematica
Policy Research, a nonpartisan research group, showed that 34% of
California's working poor participated in the program that year, the
third lowest percentage among the 50 states.
There are 30,000 households in Orange County that receive food stamps,
federal officials said.
Sanders of the Community Action Partnership estimates more than three
times that amount could qualify.
Aliso Viejo resident Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman
Project, which fights illegal immigration, said the Orange County
program encouraged illegal immigration.
These immigrants and their children "should only be given life-saving
medical care," Gilchrist said.
"If we encourage illegal alien families to come forward and exploit the
… system, aren't we encouraging more illegal immigration? We have to
cut these benefits off."
In 2004, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service and the
Mexican Embassy agreed to jointly disseminate brochures and create the
public service announcements.
The agreement led Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro to tout the
food stamp program on Univision's KMEX Channel 34 six weeks ago. The
newscast included the partnership's phone number. More than 1,200
people called the partnership in the following days, Sanders said.
Then, two weeks ago, the Department of Agriculture began to air a
monthlong series of ads on Spanish-language television in Southern
California and three other markets in the U.S.
When Sanders first saw the Spanish-language public service
announcements, he asked the government if Orange County callers could
be routed to his office. That led to hundreds more inquiries. Callers,
which number about 2,000 calls a day nationwide, are only routed to
nonprofit organizations in seven California counties. The others are
directed to government offices.
In Orange County, several of those attending a recent "Food Stamps in
Four Hours" class said they were convinced it was legitimate when they
saw Ortiz Haro on television.
"This program is not welfare. It won't affect your immigration status,"
Ortiz Haro said on television.
"The program is a right, and if we don't use it, it's a privilege that
will pass you by."
About 20 people attended a "Food Stamps in Four Hours" class on a
recent weekday at the El Modena Community Center in Orange.
Many of them came by a bus provided by Community Action Partnership,
which picked up applicants at three locations.
They were given help filling out a 10-page application, as well as
nutrition bars and a bag of free food. Then they were taken by bus to a
government office in Anaheim to get fingerprinted.
Sylvia Cruz, who has three U.S.-born children, came to the class after
hearing about food stamps on a Spanish-language news report. She then
worked to convince her husband, a construction worker who earns $1,800
monthly and pays $1,200 in rent.
"I think it was comforting for him to know the consul was talking about
this program," Cruz said.
"It made him think this won't get us into trouble."
Claudia Ortega, 31, said she called the nonprofit immediately after the
newscast. Her husband didn't need much convincing. The Mexican
immigrant couple with three U.S.-born children struggle with a monthly
income of $2,200 and $1,150 monthly rent, she said.
"We see how hard it is to get by here, even with two jobs," Ortega said.
"We'll take the help for a little while. It's a program and it's here
for us to use."
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PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
www.predatoryaliens.com www.immigrationshumancost.org
www.daylaborers.org www.AmericanPatrol.com
'The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave' by Heather MacDonald @
www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
See the colossal $$COSTS$$ of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer @
www.immigrationcounters.com
www.SaveOurState.org www.escapingjustice.com
http://grassfire.org/
www.newnation.com/index2.html http://idexer.com
http://reportillegals.com
Two of MANY cops murdered by illegals: www.deputydavidmarch.com
www.kriseggle.org
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