Posted on 05/22/2008 5:30:15 PM PDT by AZ Righty
ABC News
Hundreds of legal and illegal immigrants in Arizona are being sent back to their home countries, sometimes against their will, for medical treatment because they lack insurance.
In some cases, the FBI and police, responding to allegations of kidnapping, have been called in to halt such forcible removals, according to patients' lawyers. In one recent case, a sick baby who is a U.S. citizen born to an illegal immigrant was being transferred by helicopter to a waiting air ambulance for a flight to a hospital in Mexico when Tucson police intervened and brought the child back to the hospital.
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You need to go down to McAllen and Brownsville, Texas. Mexican ambulances bring Mexican women who are in labor across the border to have their anchor babies in American hospitals. We open the gates for them, a quick ambulance inspection and off they go to deliver their American paycheck to the family.
and your point is really the crux of the matter. Americans can’t get medical care because of illegals (what is wrong with this picture???). I know these other countries wouldn’t turn away their own to help us.
If enough people took this position, I think it would make a huge statement. I’m surprised we didn’t think of it before - If Americans refused to travel to Mexico on all of their pleasure trips until Mexico made some efforts to keep their people IN their country, I think it might make a dent but people never want to make even small sacrifices for the greater good... at least nowadays.... in the old days they would, but no more.
We have insurance, and I will take an ambulance to an emergency hospital rather than just walk in. There are too many diseases out there that we as Americans wiped out years ago. The illegals are bringing those diseases back in infecting everyone in the ER who are already sick.
Not just border states either!
They are also bringing contagious diseases to the U. S. that we thought were under control years ago.
John Curtin, lawyer for the family, said that the hospital is trying to do something that the government of the United States, can't do: to send her to Honduras
Those aren’t anchor babies she’s makin’. It’s a frikkin’ portage.
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