Thread: Whistleblowing on illegals then losing job?

I got this in an email today. The author also sent this email to several news organizations, Mitt Romney , and Boosh.

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From: Date: Aug 28, 2007 10:16 AM
Subject: Our government really does suck;

Complete article at:

http://washingtontimes.com/article/2007 ... /editorial


Dr. Gene Rogers had a pretty good idea of what was coming
when he saw his supervisor and a county security officer
arrive at his office door. His supervisor was holding
paperwork; the security guard was holding an empty box.

Dr. Gene Rogers knew what they had come to do, and why
they were doing it. As the medical director for Sacramento
County's Indigent Services program for the better part of the
past decade, Dr. Rogers has waged a long fight against
the central California county's practice of providing non-
emergency medical care to illegal immigrants - a policy
he says violates federal law and results in the poorest
American citizens being denied the care they deserve.

That fight cost Dr. Rogers his job. In a two-sentence memo
to Dr. Rogers, the county's Health and Human Services
director, Lynn Frank, informed him that he was fired, but
thanked him for his services. No reason for his termination
was offered, but then he didn't really expect one.
"Sacramento County knowingly violated state and federal
laws, misappropriated taxpayer revenues and diverted funds
designated for indigent citizens to pay for services delivered
to illegal aliens," Dr. Rogers said. "And they did so even as
they cut the budget."

Fired earlier this month, Dr. Rogers is the latest casualty on
a frontline in the struggle over illegal immigration that's often
overshadowed: the battle that has simmered throughout
government agencies. Many government employees remain
silent in the face of what's happening - fearful for their jobs
and perhaps doubtful that they would make a difference. But
Dr. Rogers, a Vietnam veteran, felt compelled to become a
conscientious objector to the status quo.

The local cost of the medical treatment provided to illegal
immigrants is small when contrasted to the billions of dollars
the state and federal governments spend every year on the
"undocumented," but the numbers have grown dramatically.
According to county health officials, the hundreds of illegal
immigrants who were being treated through the indigent
program in the mid-1990s have now grown to thousands of
people, with the annual cost to taxpayers swelling into the
millions of dollars.

Ironically, when Dr. Rogers, 67, took the position of medical
director for the indigent services program back in 1999, he
arrived in the Central Valley with hardly a clue (let alone an
opinion) about illegal immigration and its impact on social
services. He had one goal: to provide the best care possible
for those who need it most.

As the years went by, however, that egalitarian perspective
began to be tinged with cynicism as he watched poor
citizens get squeezed out of the system even as illegal
immigrants gleefully manipulated it, all while bureaucrats
facilitated the rampant violations of the very laws they were
entrusted to enforce.

"I've seen cases and case histories of patients who
essentially have come up from Mexico for the express
purpose of being treated here, and then leaving to return
home," Dr. Rogers said. "I've watched illegal
immigrants brazenly demand free, non-emergency
health care that was meant for our poorest citizens. I've
heard them and their families complain. They feel
entitled to it." Dr. Rogers filed a lawsuit in 2003 after
county officials "stonewalled" him when he questioned
why they were cutting budgets while still providing non-
emergency medical treatment to people who have no
legal right to be in the country...

Please circulate across the USA.

No good deed goes unpunished

Yeah, watch them come in for "indigent care" with sneezes, sniffles and other non-emergencies, and then follow them to the parking lot and watch them drive off in their shiny new cars.

Meanwhile that poor American widow from down the street has to wait in line for hours and then is told she didn't bring enough "documentation" to qualify for the program.

Dr. Rogers deserves a medal for speaking out. Hope he goes on the talk shows with this.

WND, Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, ... are you watching?

I sure hope someone in the national press picks this up and does some serious reporting on it.

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