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"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message 
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> Randy Cox wrote:
>>
>> I'm with you on the fence.  I'm for closing our borders to all illegal 
>> traffic.  For years political and economic powers have turned a blind eye 
>> to illegal workers.
>>
>> Without another word....LET US CLOSE THAT BORDER!
>
> It's ironic that, after saying that, you go on to write like 3 paragraphs.
>
>
>> No amnesty should reward illegal behavior.  Now!  I will stand against 
>> any person who wants to withhold medical treatment to any injured human 
>> being. I'll stand against that philosophically, and if it happens in my 
>> presence I reserve the right to use physical force to get obstruction to 
>> medical care out of the way.
>
> No - you won't.
> Anti-immigrants are all-talk, no action.

You really don't understand middle roaders do you?  Not medical treatment 
but actual event.  About 14 years ago, I'm working on a large Hospital in 
Plano, Texas.  It was hot summer and there was one Union Trade and one Union 
contractor...maybe two on the job...electricians and plumbers.  Some illegal 
labor and lots of green card labor.  The green card contractors gave no 
breaks in the hot Texas sun...and they furnished no ice water.  Union 
Contractors have to furnish ice water...and ours furnished Gatorade as well. 
The green card labor would drink from our water jugs....sometimes with their 
mouths on the spigot...sometimes they put cold drinks in the ice and 
retrieved them with dirty hands--different cultures.

We have about forty men on the job!  We have three to four water jugs on 
each of maybe ten or twelve floors (can't remember exactly)  Hot 100 plus 
days our apprentices reload ice and water twice a day.  About 3 o'clock we 
start running out of water...sometimes earlier.  We are working 10 hours per 
day...no water except faucet water which has oxides in it from the solder 
joints...gives you the runs.

Every week we have a big safety meeting.  About 300 men... 80% of those are 
green card types working for sleazy contractors that don't furnish breaks or 
water.  Some of our guys are angry.  They announce that we will not let them 
drink from our water.  They say their contractors can buy them ice water or 
they can do without.  Everyone agrees we start locking our water up in our 
lock boxes.  One of the Hispanic supervisors gets up and says he will see 
that his men stay away from our water.

I get the floor and tell them all, my bosses, my fellow union 
brothers....all of them.  I was so angry I was shaking and ready to whip 
anyone who wanted to disagree.  I shouted, "As far as I'm concerned whatever 
part of that ice water belongs to me belongs to any working man that wants 
it."    "I'll not deny any thirsty man a drink of water, I don't care how 
cheap his contractor is! "

That was the end of it.  Some of the guys locked their Gatorade and left 
their water out.   Most did not!  It was the right thing to do concerning 
water, and it is the right thing to do with medical care.

If I saw someone at a hospital deny anyone medical, I couldn't force them to 
offer it, but I could raise some kind of hell!

Randy R. Cox