medical/dental heath care plan is there to take care of all your health needs, free of charge.
Posted on 12/17/2010 1:32:01 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has agreed to begin providing medical care that goes well beyond emergency treatment, as a result of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU. The suit alleged that ICE was not treating “immigration detainees with constitutionally adequate levels of medical and mental health care.”
Among the many services which ICE will now provide illegal aliens in their custody are heart surgeries, cancer biopsies, treatment for diabetes, dental care, and treatment for mental depression.
On Thursday, Elizabeth Alexander, former Director of the ACLU National Prison Project and lead attorney in the suit said: "For the first time, ICE has committed to providing all necessary health care to immigration detainees beyond just emergency care. For too long, ICE's own policies allowed it to provide detainees with nothing beyond a narrow definition of emergency. This settlement is recognition that it is unconstitutional not to provide people in government custody with all necessary health care."
The legal action was filed in June 2007 by the ACLU and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties and stated that detainees at the San Diego Correctional Facility were often subjected to long waits for medical treatment and denied medication for chronic illnesses.
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“constitutionally adequate levels of medical and mental health care.”
Where is this, exactly, in the Constitution????
It’s all part of Obamacare for Americans!
Go to Mexico, leave you passport there, cross the border, get picked up by ICE, and complain of chest pains.
Works for me.
The constitution is meant for the people of this nation and not the world!
Screw the ACLU commies!!! I know that hatred is something one should try to avoid, but I can unequivocally state that I LOATHE the ACLU!
Ugh
Good thing we’re not broke or anything.
Since when do “illegals” qualify for OUR constitional benefits???? Oh, forgot, “we don’t abide by the constitution anymore!!!!!!!
I think they should get heart surgery ... if it is a life threatening problem ... but the surgeon should be required to use what I would ... a Spork from KFC.
Don't know how you could have missed it, it's right by that part that says it's alright to murder babies.
Guess their not subjected to the death panel clause like we American taxpayers will be. Despicable politicians killing the hand that feeds them. January better be smack down time or the GOP will have hell to pay
All I can do is throw my hands in the air and babble.
Unfrigginbelievable.
They come over and shoot our Border Guards and we give them By-Pass operations. Gawd-a-mighty-damn.
We are in a friggin lunatic asylum.The lunatics are running it.
The principal problem with these egregious excesses of misplaced generosity by government agencies is that the MSM as a whole simply will not report them. The details, if ever lightly disseminated, don’t reach the majority of Americans. Who we should be catching, imprisoning, and expelling are reporters, journalists, and news people, period!
Illegal Jihadist: “You infidels must DIE!”
ICE Shrink: “Can’t we all just get along?”
ICE is under DHS, correct? That would explain a lot.
OK if that is the way it has to be the problem can be mitigated quite easily by processing the Illegals quickly and efficiently. Thereby they can be removed from ICE custody by deporting them before they need medical care.
It should be ICE’s normal SOP to process and adjudicate a suspected illegal in 48 hours and deport them in 72 hours.
Someone need to go after the ACLU for treason, this is an act of WAR, we are being invaded and they claim our constitution protects the invaders. NO ONE give a hoot, what is wrong with my country????? OMG, LORD help us!
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