L.A. Emergency Rooms Full of Illegal Immigrants
Fox News, March 18, 2005
Los Angeles County’s emergency rooms are overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration. Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens, and more than half are here illegally. With about 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County alone, patients in the County’s overcrowded emergency rooms can wait days for a hospital bed for necessary surgeries. In 2004, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured – roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer – while illegal immigrants receive medical treatment for free.
Border States Grapple With Alien Criminals
Fox News, March 17, 2005
Many police officials are fed up with the number of illegal aliens populating American prisons, many of them incarcerated for violent crimes such as murder, rape and robbery. Criminal aliens, who by law should be deported, are instead incarcerated in the U.S. Because of federal bureaucracy and an overburdened system, only the most dangerous felons are actually sent home. Statistics tell the story: About 60 percent of deportation orders are ignored. In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants and 60 percent of outstanding felony warrants are for illegal aliens. American taxpayers are paying for the crimes of the 8,000 convicted aliens not yet caught and the incarceration costs of those who have been, estimated to add up to more than $1 billion a year — in just the states that border Mexico.
"Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens.."
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Isn't it beautiful? What a crap hole it has turned into, thanks to the dysfunctional goverment in Washington that continues to pander to over 10 MILLION illegals with every tax dollar they can steal from us.
The same has happened in south Texas except we get part of the $1 billion from the medicare bill as we are considered border hospitals. Bush snuck this through the Medicare bill at 4AM. IIRC, it only passed by on vote. Had more Texas hospitals closed, maybe some of this mess could have been averted.
The best health care system the world has ever known is being downgraded to socialized medicine because of illegal aliens.