Hispanic Petita (Petita) a few years ago from the Mexican immigrants to the United States in New York, Queens, to do cleaning work has been for two years. Now she is a self-employed, often produce leaflets stuffed in mailboxes around the community, she is charged per household thoroughly cleaned (about 6 ~ 7 hours) 80 U.S. dollars. This price is only about the general United States Procter & Gamble 1 / 7.
Petita told CBN reporter that she had a large cleaning company, salary is not much more than now, but the income is very stable, but also for them to buy a variety of insurance, including health insurance, disability insurance and accident insurance.
However, due to economic recession, where she had sharp decline in the company's business, was her first to be laid off so cleaners. The fixed working hard to find, and she now only sporadic doing cleaning work, we need to on-site service. As the different needs of every month, so income has been unstable, they naturally did not willing to spend money to buy medical insurance. Now, the most worried about is that her doctor.
"Right now afraid of illness, just look out on at least tens of dollars, if to do so is to check the astronomical figures. Dispensary incur additional money, can only pray that they are not sick." Petita said.
In the U.S., such as the Petita lost due to financial crisis, health insurance, immigration, and a minority. Some illegal immigrants, it is always not to purchase health insurance eligibility. James Chiu Chinese people with tertiary education by the end of 2007 holding a community college admission notice to the student status to the United States. However, her goal is not to go to school, but in the United States to find work. As the report did not go to school, Mr James immediately became the identity of illegal aliens. Now, she was in New York, a Chinese mall opened an accountant. In the absence of a work permit, her monthly income is in cash, employers would naturally do not have to purchase any insurance for her.
U.S. Federal Bureau of latest statistics show that a region the number of those who buy health insurance is often determined by the rate of unemployment. Massachusetts universal coverage law provisions, there is no state health insurance accounted for the proportion of the number of the nation's lowest, in 2008 about one in 20 people who do not have insurance, only one; Texas is the nation's highest percentage of every four people have a , mainly because illegal Hispanic immigrants were excluded from the government-sponsored or employer-provided insurance schemes.
The deterioration of the living environment, so that the United States, the number of immigrants continues to drop. CBN reporter from Flushing, New York area an immigration law firm learned that they handled the recent sharp decline in the number of green cards.
"Two years ago, come to us to do political asylum migrants were very many visitors with a day on the occupied most of the time, the preparation of materials for customers must be working overtime. Is now almost no business." The work of a officials said.
The U.S. green card applications are mostly need to have legally entered the United States in the United States documents and proof of legal residence status for illegal immigrants, these channels are not feasible, most of them can only apply for political asylum in the green card types, as this species is not require proof of lawful entry. According to statistics, almost half of the states 2007 and 2008, a downward trend in the number of immigrants, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Detroit and Tampa and other large cities particularly evident decline, mainly because the Government has changed its immigration policy, including strengthening border management, as well as the changed the way to apply to become a U.S. citizen. Another reason is from Mexico, have to travel to Arizona, Florida and California, the decline in the number of low-skilled immigrants.
In 2008, the United States to reduce the number of immigrants with less than 38 million, or 12.5% of the U.S. population, of which about 11.9 million are illegal immigrants. |
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