[RLK]

We are going to have to build a 30 foot high wall, shoot anyone climbing over it, and catapult anyone who doesn't belong here back over it.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican and sponsor of legislation to reimburse border hospitals for their mounting losses"

This is stupid. The solution is to tell the Hospitals that they do not have to accept these people. Americans without money or insurance could net get help form hospitals in mexico. Of course these dumbasses in the legislature would rather expand federal expenditures.

[Cacique]

A Must Read by Everyone on the subject of immigration (click on picture)

The Hardcover edition.

[RLK]

These people are simply crossing the border and comandeering this country.

[xm177e2]

If the patients are suffering from a disease, wouldn't illegally importing them into our country be a form of bioterrorism?

[gubamyster]

bump

[Lion's Cub]

Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican and sponsor of legislation to reimburse border hospitals for their mounting losses

By all means, let's continue to give the country away...

We should declare war on Mexico and take their oil fields as reimbursement.

[dennisw]

So now America is Mexico's emergency room? Is that all we're good for? To be exploited? Mexico is nothing but a breeding ground for rip off artists and parasites.

[texastoo]

Since it is so late tonight, I thought I would one-up the Washington Times with a very true story.

Last winter a patient crossed the border from Mexico in a Mexican ambulance with a "border crossing card". These border cards are shopping cards. He was a ventilator patient and they ambu-bagged him all the way. Since it was winter, the hospital was full of patients. Therefore, we had to discharge an American to make room for the illegal.

The irony of all this free medicine, is that the illegals can sue the doctors, hospitals and nurses. AND they are doing just that. Free medical care is a lottery ticket for illegals.

[tdadams]

How can this situation be allowed to continue? Can anyone reasonably justify allowing Mexicans to cross a border into a country other than their own for the sole purpose of leaching medical care with no intention of paying for it?

Would any other country feel any obligation to treat an influx of people from a neighboring country knowing their only intention is to mooch off of that nation's taxpayers?

Does our government feel such a dire need to maintain good relations with Mexico that it's willing to march straight into it's own suicide?

Grrr...waiting for Atlas to shrug!

[mhking]

Boortz had the right idea on his show this morning: when the Mexican ambulances come to dump their Mexican patients (now Mexican illegals) at the American hospitals, grab the drivers and ambulances.

Confiscate the ambulances (perhaps give 'em to a hospital or fire department who is in need of an extra vehicle or three), and charge the driver with transporting illegals over the border. Once ol' Vinnie Fox gets tired of having to pony up to keep replacing ambulances, he'll put the kybosh on that practice real quick...

[Chemist_Geek]

So, you guys really want to hear the following..?

"We're sorry, but unless you can provide three forms of ID, proving your American citizenship, we won't provide any treatment for your respiratory distress. Sorry, just sit there and suffocate. Try not to make a mess. Thank you!"

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

If this continues unabated, it will bankrupt the U.S. healthcare system and drive health insurance costs completely out of sight. It has simply got to stop. And, we've got to stop treating illegal aliens who cannot pay who are already here. I know it seems cruel, but it will eventually kill our children.

In Mexico, as I have posted before, if you don't pay...you don't get care. It's that simple.

[glock rocks]

holy crap.

[Mamzelle]

The only way I see any help coming, or any way to enforce the law, is for the hospitals to voluntarily shut down or shut down their urgent care and ERs. I just don't see any other way out of it. Even a little money from the feds would just keep them alive a little longer.

The kindest thing these hospitals could do is shut down, create a big stink, and draw attention to the issue.

[Ajnin]

I wonder how these ambulances are driving across exactly. I know at some time they are encountered by the Border Patrol. I wonder if the Agents are told not to stop ambulances. This type of thing has never happened in my Sector. However, we are not allowed to determine alienage on a sick or injured illegal. We have to call EMS. Once EMS takes them to the hospital and they get treatment they are free to stay in the US. Determining that a Mexican is illegal is one of the quickest ways to the beach.

[Ajnin]

I wonder how these ambulances are driving across exactly. I know at some time they are encountered by the Border Patrol. I wonder if the Agents are told not to stop ambulances. This type of thing has never happened in my Sector. However, we are not allowed to determine alienage on a sick or injured illegal. We have to call EMS. Once EMS takes them to the hospital and they get treatment they are free to stay in the US. Determining that an injured Mexican is illegal is one of the quickest ways to the beach.

[dennisw]

BUMP THIS OL’ THREAD.

A 5 year old snapshot of FR comments on illegal immigration

[amihow]

That was five years ago.

Let’s be careful. Being against illegal immigration does not mean being heartless to needy people in an acute crisis.

We can have a treaty with Mexico to treat and get reimbursed.

[George W. Bush]

Ambulances should not be allowed to cross the border without being pre-approved by the American hospital. The hospital should be required to keep paperwork for auditing to demonstrate that no welfare medical cases are admitted.