Immigrants force wait at emergency room
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To the editor,

I had occasion to visit my local emergency room in Murfreesboro last Thursday evening. My 4-year-old little girl had spilled hot boiling liquid on her hands, arms, and chest. After racing to the emergency room, I was surprised to find no room for my daughter. As she lay in my wife's arms kicking and screaming in agony with blisters forming on her skin, I was told the rooms were all occupied. With a feeling of panic, I looked around the waiting room and then in the beds as I walked past. Fifty percent appeared to be filled with non-English speaking "immigrants." The emergency room staff was pleasant and did what they could with the facilities they had. Eventually my daughter received excellent medical attention and is recovering quickly.

Being a few days removed from the situation, I ask myself "what happened"? I grew up in this town. I never got in any trouble. I participated in community projects as an Eagle Scout. I served my country in the U.S. Air Force. I pay my taxes. I vote and have health insurance. Why does my little girl have to suffer waiting on medical attention?

I blame every person who has held public office in the last 10 years. I blame the builders and developers who have illegal aliens working on their job sites. I blame the landlords who rent to illegal aliens. I blame you and most of all me for letting this happen in our community. Eventually you or someone you love will need the emergency room or the police and they will be "occupied" with illegal immigration. Please make an appointment with every local official you can get in to see. Make illegal immigration a problem they must deal with. I don't care what Texas, California, or Washington, D.C., does about illegal immigration. I live here. I care what we do about it!

Adam Randolph

Citadel Court

Rockvale