A year ago it was estimated that Los Angeles County spent $340 million for emergency care and followup for people who are in the country illegally.
This was a striking figure not only because it represents an outrageously large sum of taxpayers money but also because that amount was nearly the same as the unfunded debt the County health care system anticipated for the year, red ink that forced the closure of numerous neighborhood clinics as well as other cutbacks.
In neighboring Ventura County, Santa Paula Memorial Hospital closed it's doors recently, leaving some people more than twentyfive miles from emergency care.
I don't know where the Representatives who voted against this bill think the money will come from to support overburdened health care facilities.
From the deep, deep deficit were already drowning in.
Living in L.A. County, I see the damage every day illegals are doing.
Overcrowded classrooms, clogged streets and freeways, dilapidated public health care systems, and of course, criminals who get to kill U.S. citizens and run off to Mexico to escape justice.
Muchas gracias, Mexico...