Posted on 05/06/2006 12:45:20 PM PDT by dennisw
Within the last month, close to three dozen illegal immigrants have been injured or killed in three Southern Arizona accidents.
The first happened April 19 near Elgin in Santa Cruz County, the second on April 30 near Tangerine Road and Interstate 10 and on May 3 at Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road.
Often, hospitals foot the bill to care for illegal immigrants injured here in the U.S.
Those costs are then passed on to the taxpayers.
Smugglers use older vehicles, cramming as many people as possible inside and taking extreme measures to get their cargo across the border.
In the last month, three separate accidents have occurred, one of them killing four illegal immigrants.
Agent Sean King of the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol says, “Smugglers [are] taking action that they shouldn't be taking because they want to earn as much money possible and they earn their money by getting their illegal cargo to Phoenix or Tucson so that they can get paid.”
According to the Border Patrol, vehicle wrecks are frequent with the victims needing medical attention.
“Paramedics are the ones who decide which hospital they go to and, in a large accident where there's a lot of people, it could be spread out to a bunch of hospitals in the area, depending on the need, what the hospital can help them with.”
Among them, the only trauma center in Southern Arizona, and weeks after one of the recent accidents illegal immigrants are still being treated at Tucson's University Medical Center.
“It has a negative impact on our bottom line. First, our priority is taking care of the people that are injured and making sure that they get the proper care, but the reality is that there is no direct reimbursement for that,” said Kevin Burn, Chief Financial Officer for UMC.
Two months ago, UMC received $500,000 of your tax money from the federal government as payment, but it’s not enough.
According to Burns, “At the current run rate we'll incur 5-to-6 million dollars in unreimbursed costs for taking care of foreign nationals.”
Try always.
This is a just another stat. How many people are killed by drunk driving illegals?
Desperadoes de Mexico bump!
The city I live in denied a report that illegals were employed to landscape the new bike path. I drove by the site and saw them with my own eyes. About three hours later while driving back from Walgreens, I saw the truck they were in being stopped by two STL County cops. There was six of them in the truck, three in the cab and three in back. Turns out they were living with about 20 others in a residential neighborhood in town. They are gone now, but the city insists that no illegals were used to landscape the bike path..
They are NOT "illegal immigrants"! They are "undocumented guest voters"!
I suggest all medical bills for illegals be sent to George and Laura Bush since they like them so much. Maybe if they had to pay the money themselves, they could share the pain and realize these people are not a cheap labor souse.
Don't forget hospitals don't get paid for all the anchor babies born here either.
Don't forget hospitals don't get paid for all the anchor babies born here either.
Send the bill to the Senators and Representatives and let them pay the bills out of their own pockets or let them get their friends the businesses who want cheap labor pay the bills and take away money from their families.
That's not all; Mexican drivers (legal or illegal) are not required to carry insurance to drive in Arizona (unlike Americans who drive anywhere past the border in Mexico. So if you're in an accident, regardless of fault, you're on your own when it comes to paying your damges and medical resulting from the accident.
My elderly aunt has greatly enjoyed her MWF pool therapy ($40 a month) at our local hospital for the last 5 years. The hospital was forced to cut out their aqua programs - even though it wasn't free - and she and 40+ other senior citizens in the program asked for a meeting with the hospital CEO. He's a good guy, he didn't want to stop the program, and he brought out the books. One big reason was that the hospital has been caring for an elderly illegal (Mexican) woman for the last 4 months and are already running $400,000 short on that bill alone. They're being forced to cut back on numerous services for reasons like this.
Just a few weeks ago (around the time that the Senate was putting forward that horrid amnesty bill), we had a couple of illegals making the rounds, robbing two quickie-marts, one right after the other. In their getaway, they slammed into the car of a local 18-year-old kid, who'd just graduated from high school (or was about to), killing him. That crash happened just a few blocks away from where I live. This sort of thing was unthinkable a few years ago. Yet, in just the past decade, I've seen my community just go to pot, becoming overrun by illegals. What happened to my country? It's like I'm now living in some foreign land, with a decidedly third-world flavor.
I just can't understand people who think all this is just marvelous. It's sick. It's been bad enough enduring all the America-hating leftists poisoning the culture for decades, but now I have to confront the truth that politicians representing my own Republican Party, in their worship of a quick-and-easy dollar, are equally determined to destroy the culture. It's something my mind has been very reluctant to accept, but the reality is indeed setting in.
... the only trauma center in Southern Arizona ... [is] Tucson's University Medical Center.
"At the current run rate we'll incur 5-to-6 million dollars in unreimbursed costs for taking care of foreign nationals."
There's a fence around the White House, try climbing over it and see what happens. Congress has all kinds of Capitol Police protecting them. But our borders are wide open. And have been treated as a joke for years but the hacks in DC
Do you live in a border state?
"Do you live in a border state?"
Yes, but my little corner of Texas had little evidence of illegals as recently as ten years ago. Now, we're swamped.
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