Their rights?

Let me preface this by saying that I wouldn't wish what happened to this woman on my very worst enemy. This was a horrific accident, and I sincerely sympathize with her for the pain and suffering she has endured.

Now for the rest of the story. Isabel Molina is from Honduras. She is living in the U.S. illegally. Ten years ago, she was working as a short order cook somewhere in the Dallas area. One of her brilliant co-workers had tried to clean the greasy floor of their mobile kitchen with gasoline. The gasoline caught fire, and Isabel was severely burned. Of course, I'm sure the good old U.S. taxpayers footed her medical bills. She still has scars, but she has recently received a settlement from a lawsuit she filed, and she said she hopes to use that money for surgery to cover the scars. She didn't say anything about repaying the American taxpayers with it. 

Molina says she knows "many people are hateful toward illegal immigrants." She wants to inspire other immigrants not to let that bring them down. "Immigrants need to stand up for themselves. . .we have to fight for our rights and respect." Rights and respect for people who had no compunction about breaking the law to come here, to break the law by working here without paying taxes, to receive free care at the expense of legal citizens when they are injured or become sick, and then to use our legal system to receive recompense for their injuries?
I do hope that when Molina dies, she will leave me her gall.

"10 years after fire, a victory." The Dallas Morning News; February 13, 2012; p. 1A.