[quote=joec]Maybe some people are supporting Trump purely for his tougher sounding immigration stance. Some folks I spoke to know co-workers say that they are supporting Trump because they work in hospitals and am sick of all the free healthcare and lack of gratitude from illegals.
At the end of the day, I’m guessing a lot of these people just don’t care as much about all the other downsides of a Trump presidency, but want to shut down the thing that affects them the most.[/quote]joec, I have longtime friends who have worked in the hospitals in Chula Vista for decades (a couple of them more than 30 years). They’ve seen the “anchor-baby” stunt played out hundreds and hundreds of times at work … from the the portico driveway to the lobby to the elevator all the way to the maternity floor (for the ones who can hold on that long to deliver) :=0 It never ends. It’s a sieve of women who are nine months pregnant who either walk over or get dropped off on this side of the border for the express purpose of dropping their baby in the US … with “witnesses” so they can immediately get a US birth certificate and social security number for their “anchor baby.” This phenomenon still goes on all day, every day because the Homeland Security Dept will not turn away a walker, driver or passenger of a vehicle coming across the border who is obviously in her third trimester of pregnancy and doesn’t have any documents giving them the right to reside in the US. If she just has a visitor’s visa or border-crossing card or the like, she will just state at the gate that she’s “going to the mall” (we have 3 malls down here, one ~5 miles from the border, one ~8 miles from the border and one ~9 miles from the border).
Another group of pregnant women who are brought over by car (or successfully smuggled over, which is harder to do these days) usually end up at a relative’s house or “drop house” in 91910, 91911 or 92154 (Nestor/Otay Mesa). This group usually delivers within a week of arrival at Scripps Chula Vista in dtn CV (formerly Bay General Hospital).
There are portion of women about to deliver who try to cross the treacherous desert (directly east or west of the Otay Mesa border-crossing gates) to get here and the border patrol picks them up and usually takes them to …. “drumroll” …. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (“formerly CV Community Hospital”) instead of escorting them back over the border. Ditto for the pregnant border crossers with relatives in Otay Mesa (92154) or in the newer subdivisions of 91913, 91914 or 91915.
These “new or repeat moms” are all “charity cases” and/or “unreimbursed cases” cuz none of them can qualify for Medi-Cal, due to their (undocumented) status.
This scenario has been going on as long as I can remember and I moved from metro SD (dtn SD and East/SE SD) to South County in 1986.
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the CEO’s of both Sharp and Scripps begin to support Trump publicly.
The “legal” immigrant and “native” population of South County (95% of it) is beyond sick of this (as well as MX-citizen children taking up to hundreds of seats in each South County public school) and disgusted that nothing has been done, even after Homeland Security installed bright lights (on high beam at night), which can be seen up close and personal with binoculars out of windows of homes and businesses situated on hilltops up to four miles away.
I suspect there will be a shortage of Trump yard signs down here and Trump supporters will be stealing signs from somewhere else to display in their own yard, lol …
