Thread: Residency law ends drug program

Residency law ends drug program
By Christopher Burbach

WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Published Monday February 7, 2011


The Latino Center of the Midlands shut down its substance abuse counseling program because of Nebraska's recently adopted law requiring proof of legal residence for public benefits.

The publicly subsidized treatment program was one of Omaha's primary resources for Spanish-speaking people under court orders to receive drug and alcohol evaluation and out-patient counseling, although the program also served other clients.

“I'm sorry to hear that,â€

I pretty much just read, "illegals are all we care about serving, if we can't serve them screw the rest of you". Surely there were drug addicts who weren't illegal.

I say good riddance, the fact they closed shows they were likely just a tool besides used fraudulently for illegals to have a place to stay as they get shuffled around to jobs and other things they shouldn't get.

[quote]“It's too expensive,â€