JOHN W LILLPOP


Yesterday's early news would have caused one to believe that New York City was rolling in dough---or, more accurately, dinero.

Alan D. Aviles, the president of New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation, went out of his way to let illegal aliens know that local hospitals would be there to serve them, with no questions asked.

Aviles even issued a letter to city residents in which he advised immigrants that local hospitals would keep all information, including immigration status, confidential.

Aviles' announcement was the medical equivalent of 'Welcome Wagon' in Spanish.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/nyreg ... ref=slogin

However, New York's open wallet policy for criminals does not quite square with the city's reaction to the new Homeland Security budget. This from the 6/1/06 New York Daily News:

'The city was stunned yesterday to find that its share of federal anti-terror funds was slashed nearly in half by bureaucrats who said it has no national icons to protect and lousy defense plans.

The city will get $125 million from the feds' high-threat bank account, a 40% cut from the $207 million it received last year. The Homeland money pot was smaller overall this year, but the rest of the country is being trimmed just 14%.'

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/ ... 6751c.html

As I see it, NYC has two options:

*Discontinue the practice of playing doctor for Mexico's poor. Instead of shielding criminal illegal aliens from the law, work with sane people to deport them back to Mexico.

or,

*Have your zillionaire mayor make up the $82 million out of his own checking account. That is about what Bloomberg paid for the Mayor's office to begin with, right?

And since Da Mayor is a Republican, he can surely afford it! If not, who in the hell cares?