The tragic cost some citizens pay for illegal immigrants

Pedro Gonzales:

On a Sunday afternoon in May, Etta Nugent found Marco Cobos, a Mexican national, at her doorstep in Houston after his truck had broken down nearby. Cobos knocked and Nugent, described by friends as “gentle soul” and a “good Christian woman,” answered. When Cobos asked her to help him fix his truck, the septuagenarian politely declined, citing her age.

Feeling entitled to a different answer, Cobos forced his way into Nugent’s home and stabbed her in the chest. He proceeded to show himself to kitchen to look for “more knives,” he told prosecutors, while his victim lay grievously wounded. As Nugent attempted to flee, Cobos killed her in her home of 50 years, across the street from St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church where she had worshiped for most of her life.

With cash stolen from the house, Cobos drove Nugent’s car to an auto parts store to buy a new battery for his truck. He stopped for food before returning to Nugent’s home, where he ate and lounged for hours, helping himself to Nugent’s credit cards, even paying his phone bill with one of them.

Nugent’s horrific fate has become all too common in an America that has bought into the lie that is is “a nation of immigrants,” rather than simply a nation. Increasingly, however, immigrants show little appreciation, often outright hostility, for this nation and its people.

Consider the “Dreamers” of North Carolina, thousands of illegal aliens who were brought, illegally, into the country by their parents. The fact that they have not been deported despite their unlawful presence is, in itself, a benefit undeservingly conferred upon them. Their stay has not been cheap, either. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, North Carolina spent $4,630 per illegal alien in 2017, for a total cost to taxpayers of $2,437,965,113.

The Tar Heel State even allows illegal aliens access to Medicaid for “emergency care,” with which they can receive chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and even outpatient dialysis. These are costly medical procedures that U.S. citizens struggle to afford, yet the burden on their backs grows even heavier now as they unwillingly subsidize the entitled uninvited. Still, the “Dreamers” want more, demanding in-state tuition and protesting that they even have to ask for it.
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Every crime committed by an illegal is one that could have been avoided if the immigration laws were enforced.  Democrats do not seem to compare about these crimes and have offered no solution to the border crisis and indeed many of them seem to welcome it along with the sick and lame who get free medical care that citizens have to pay for.