Illegal or not, they are still human.

immortalmikey

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 10:51 AM PST

2005/11/17 · 10:51

A Latino male in his twenties had been brought up the unit from PES (psych emergency). I was standing at the nurse's station going over a chart when I heard the nurse in front of me proclaim, "Yep, your tax dollars at work," pointing to her chart and looked for a sign of commiseration from me. I didn't know what she was talking about, so I followed her finger to the part of her patient's chart that said "SSN: 888-88-8888." "Gotta be illegal!" she said.

As I recall, my face was set for `yeah-and?,' but she mistook it for `I-agree-sister!' "Do you believe the nerve of these people," she went on, "sponging off the system like this? We really need more border patrol!" I was picturing the band of rednecks currently patrolling the border between Arizona and Mexico while repressing the urge to roll my eyes. She actually waited for my reply.

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