Oregon, My Oregon

From Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Oregon Relied on Illegal Alien Sex Offender for 'Behavioral Health' Advice

Who better to advise the Oregon state government on policy areas such as behavioral health, “health equity,” and healthcare for all than a Venezuelan illegal immigrant sex offender?

I can think of a few people, but apparently, Oregon state government officials couldn't, so they invited Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia to sit on several advisory committees to help set state policy in these areas:

An illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes in Oregon, a sanctuary state for unlawful immigration, held various advisory positions on state policymaking committees as a so-called “Latinx” community leader.

Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia, a criminally convicted Venezuelan national who had overstayed his visa, according to U.S. immigration authorities, served in several committee roles advising the state of Oregon on policy areas such as behavioral health, “health equity,” and healthcare for all, regardless of immigration status.

Before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nabbed Garcia, a Portland-area activist and “educator,” he was on Oregon’s Community Engagement and Communications Committee to the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, which is tasked with creating a comprehensive plan for financing and administering a single-payer healthcare system that covers all Oregonians, no matter their immigration status.

Garcia’s committee is responsible for developing community outreach recommendations and informational material, as part of the universal health plan that the board will present to Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) and the Oregon legislature.

The board looks to committee members for “expertise and lived experience.” Committee members are recruited by the governor-appointed board and are supposed to embody “equitable representation from every region and population around the state.”

On the Oregon government website, the board’s community engagement committee describes Garcia as the executive director of LatinX Recovery Center, who is “currently in recovery from substance abuse with a criminal justice history.”

Over video conference, Garcia attended the committee’s monthly meetings as recently as Sept. 24 and would offer insight in Spanish.

Garcia, whose record reportedly includes sexual abuse and bestiality, was also an active member of the Behavioral Health Crisis System Advisory Committee, which advises the Oregon Health Authority, the state’s health department, on overseeing the statewide crisis response system.

I mean, who wouldn't want a sex criminal, drug abusing, bestiality advocate illegal alien helping set  health care policy?