The SBI’s investigation of the Alamance County Health Department that resulted in the arrest of library employee isn’t keeping Hispanic clients from seeking health services.
But county officials are still dealing with issue of staffers allowing Hispanic clients to use different names when getting health services. In his letter of resignation from the county health board, Dr. Michael Blocker expressed his concerns:
“While I realize that the health department must follow state and federal laws, the public comments of the board members and recent discussion during Board of Health meetings have left me feeling that the board is too focused on issues related to the enforcement of immigration law and less attentive to our mandate to provide public health for our community,” Blocker wrote. “It is my opinion that the board’s stance on these issues have become contentious and divisive, rather than supportive of the department.”
But should county employees knowingly participating in falsification of records be tolerated under any circumstance?
Update NC Spin’s Tom Campbell weighs in with some pretty strong language:
We afford thugs in drive-by shootings more rights than we are affording these here illegally.
This is reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s reign of terror, only this is Alamance County, North Carolina. It is impossible to believe that we started a revolution on the premise that every person has rights, yet we are eager to deny any rights to people who don’t have a piece of paper saying they are here legally.
