Why is this illegal alien smiling? Well, why not? Socorro Gonzalez is holding jackpot baby #4, whose medical costs for birth were paid by the US taxpayer, and the Mexican mom is feeling pretty darn entitled.

”I don’t see why they should deny a medical service if we’re here struggling for this country,” she said.

It’s not news that we taxpayers remain the unwilling health care provider for Mexico and beyond, particularly when it comes to birthing babies ['Border baby' boom strains S. Texas, By James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle 9/24/06] .

Rising numbers of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America are streaming into Texas to give birth, straining hospitals and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, health officials say. [...]

Also feeling the strain is Starr County, an already poor South Texas county that has the region’s only taxpayer-supported hospital district.

Immigrants “want a U.S.-born baby” and know that emergency room staffers don’t collect any money up front, said Dr. Mario Rodriguez, an obstetrician in Starr County.

“The word is out: Come to Starr County and get delivered for free. Why pay $1,000 in Mexico when you can get it for free?” Rodriguez said.

Why indeed? Particularly when a US-born infant is a jackpot baby, a little citizen meal-ticket that can bring a pile of welfare goodies into the illegal alien household.

And here’s another heart-warming story about foreigners using Uncle Sucker’s generous medical services: A Peruvian family moved here illegally, the father committed a felony (having a fraudulant Social Security number), yet the kid gets an apparently free bone marrow transplant (worth about $250,000) on the taxpayer’s overdrawn tab [Father of sick boy spared from jail time, Miami Herald 9/24/06].

A former human resources manager at an insurance company in Peru, Onetti came to Orlando on vacation with his family in 2001. While there, Brenertt fell ill and was diagnosed with leukemia.

The family returned to Peru but left because the medical treatment was inadequate. Onetti and his wife, Silvia Patricia Lozada de Onetti, returned with their son to Orlando on a tourist visa, but overstayed. Onetti took a job cleaning as a janitor, and his son began receiving treatment.

The whole world knows they can come here for their ultra-expensive organ transplants, kidney dialysis and whatever else they want. A well known case was that of Jesica Santillan, an illegal alien teen whose family brought her to American to get free medical care, specifically a heart and lung transplant, which turned into two after the first one failed on account of medical incompetence.

Meanwhile, an estimated 46 million American citizens have no medical coverage.

Today a referendum in Switzerland produced a sweeping 67.8% vote in favor of toughening the country’s asylum laws. Every Canton (State) voted for the proposal. The vote is a personal triumph for Justice Minister Christoph Blocher, leader of the Swiss People’s Party, who has played a pivotal role in shifting his country’s immigration policy towards restriction. Blocher is invariably described as Right-wing and a billionaire. (Why doesn’t America have such billionaire patriots?)

The reality is it would be extremely easy for tiny Switzerland (population less than 6 million native Swiss) to be utterly swamped by immigration, particularly given the country’s high prosperity and central location on major European trade routes. And the usual disingenuous voices are raised to promote that objective, ranging from International Aid Bureaucrats comfortably ensconced in the country, to shamefully, a former President employing a familiar mau-mauing tactic:

“During World War Two, Switzerland turned away Jews, calling them ‘false refugees’ — and that is a slogan which marked this campaign,” said former Swiss President and Socialist minister Ruth Dreifuss, who is herself Jewish

(Swiss voters approve tougher asylum barriers By Richard Waddington Reuters
Sunday Sep 24, 2006)

Part of the reason the Swiss are able to defend their country arises from an elegantly simple technique: Aliens cannot become citizens easily, so they cannot vote. Non-Swiss make up 20% of the population, some reportedly third generation residents. This is actually a much higher proportion than in the U.S.

Effective Border control could do a lot for this country. But ultimately, if the American nation is to survive, the current promiscuous granting of citizenship will have to be changed.

One of the major reasons the Establishment gives for the need of Open Borders is that the US isn’t producing “enough” younger workers. Now, one obvious solution to that problem is to simply produce more workers–a job Americans still can do.

Somehow, in the latest wave of political correctness, reproduction has come to have much the same role as sex had in the Victorian area. However, improvement of medical care is something that is still very much of broad concern. Some of the more radical thought in that approach comes under the genre of Life Extension Now, what does this have to do with immigration? Well, Life Extension techniques, if successful, may emerge as a major means by which immigration is made even less of an an advantage than it now appears to be as existing workers are kept productive and healthy longer.

One of the major events in the Life Extension movement in recent years has been the creation Methuselah Mouse Prize-a prize for whatever researcher can use medical interventions to help a mouse live the longest. The Methuselah Mouse Prize got a major boost this week from the donation of $ 3.5 Million from Payal Founder Peter A. Thiel.

We’ve historically seen successful prize awards associated with major technical leaps forward. In the next few years, I think it is a safe bet that we’ll be reading about scientists gaining the ability to double or triple the natural life span of a mouse. Now, doing that in humans is going to be very tricky-especially as the technology is first getting applied.

I hope to cover the connection between life extension technologies and immigration in more depth in a later article.

The Bush administration, in keeping with their de facto policy of replacement of the existing American population, has given prominent positions to “bioconservatives” like Leon Kass who oppose creation of life extension technologies.

I expect the wealthy interests that have promoted mass immigration have made a fundamental miscalculation. They instinctually thought that the people they most negatively affected by immigration policy would just fade away. I suspect that instead, they will wind up facing a cohort of very angry, impoverished–but unexpectedly healthy–older workers. I hope I live long enough to see this.