Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

The New York Times brings you this dramatic photo and coverage about how even “native born all American” persons are also suffering because of the schizophrenic anti immigrant policies put in place from coast to coast in a country of immigrants.

So here is the adorable-tragic face of American children being put at risk by American lawmakers.

We also learn that

“The largest adverse effect of this policy has been on people who are American citizens,” said Kevin W. Concannon, director of the Department of Human Services in Iowa, where the number of Medicaid recipients dropped by 5,700 in the second half of 2006, to 92,880, after rising for five years. “We have not turned up many undocumented immigrants receiving Medicaid in Waterloo, Dubuque or anywhere else in Iowa,” Mr. Concannon said.

And now the rest of the story

When they are not busy fighting each other and honoring Cesar Chavez our Hispanic reps are up to a bunch of other stuff.

Some recent activities:

• Joe Baca tries to distract us from caucus civil war with Tiger Woods
• Díaz Balart attends the funeral of yet another elderly Miami exile leader to die before Castro
• Zero Rodríguez already in reelection fight
• Ileana Ros Lehtinen sticks her nose in Cyprus
• Luis Gutiérrez hopes Barack Obama will help him get elected to be Chicago Mayor
• Mel Martínez doesn´t agree 100 % with Bush, like all other Hispanic republicans.
• Menéndez is better for Latin America than Bush or Chávez