Carmelita's choice
Republican hatred for immigrants took a new turn recently with implementation of a requirement that will require illegal immigrants with sick newborns to choose between likely detection as an illegal and critical medical care for their children. I'm not sure what the Mexican equivalent of Sophie is, so I'll dub this Carmelita's choice instead (with apologies to the great American author William Styron, who died yesterday).
Sophie had to choose which one of her two children would die in Auschwitz, and she chose her daughter. The choice haunted her for the rest of her life. Perhaps Carmelita's choice won't be quite that grim, but I suspect many illegal immigrants will not choose to risk detection and being deported back to Mexico, El Salvador or Guatemala. They will try to self-doctor their sick child, perhaps using folk remedies. And the child will never get well, or at least completely well.
Frankly, I don't mind if children of poor illegal immigrants get Medicaid. Given a choice between that and, say, eliminating the estate tax for the 400 or so billionaires it affects, I'll choose helping Carmelita. Call that Dave's choice. And please help to end this Bush madness by voting Democratic at all levels in the election next Tuesday.