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Mexico, U.S. To Discuss Health Plan For Migrants (Our Tax Payer Money At Work)!
China View ^ | 6/19/07 | Wang Hongjiang

Posted on 06/19/2007 10:45:11 PM PDT by msnpatriot

MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The health ministers of Mexico and the United States are to work out a joint strategy Tuesday for caring Mexican migrants suffering health problems along the border, the Mexican Health Ministry said on Monday.

The final plan will be sent to the U.S. Congress that is now in recess, the ministry said in a statement.

Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said he began talking about the health plan for migrants with his U.S. counterpart Michael Leavitt a few weeks ago in Geneva, Switzerland, at the World Health Organization headquarters.

"The plan would guarantee basic medical help for thousands of future migrants as they cross the border," Cordova said.

According to statistics from Mexican and U.S. governments, around 500,000 people enter the United States illegally via its border with Mexico each year.

Mexican illegal migrants reach the U.S. border in a variety of ways, many of them dangerous, such as crossing the Texas desert in harsh climatic conditions and risking the attack of poisonous animals, or being hidden in secret compartments inside vehicles facing the risking of suffocation.

Cordova said the health plan would apply to migrants suffering from serious injuries or chronic diseases, who, in that condition, would be repatriated and receive treatment via the Seguro Popular (People's Health Insurance) in hospitals on the border.

The United States Border Patrol registered 153 undocumented immigrants who died in the period from September 2006 to April 2007. The figure was down from 166 in the same period a year earlier.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; border; healthcare; immigrantlist; immigration; mexican; mexico; migrants; noamnestyforillegals
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Anyone willing to guess what is next? A bridge across the border? :^)
1 posted on 06/19/2007 10:45:16 PM PDT by msnpatriot
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To: msnpatriot

Do we really need more reasons to call our representatives in Washington, D.C.?

Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!

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2 posted on 06/19/2007 10:48:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said he began talking about the health plan for migrants with his U.S. counterpart Michael Leavitt

What is a "U.S. counterpart", and why don't I have one?

3 posted on 06/19/2007 10:49:01 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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Yeah, “undocumented Americans” were getting claustrophobic in the tunnels, and wet crossing the Rio Grande.
4 posted on 06/19/2007 10:50:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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“According to statistics from Mexican and U.S. governments, around 500,000 people enter the United States illegally via its border with Mexico each year”

The way they talk they might as well build a bridge and fling the border wide open!

500,000 per year? Let’s see......estimating conservatively:

Now in 2007: 12 million
2010: 13.5 million
2015: 16 million
2020: 18.5 million
2025: 21 million
2030: 23.5 million

Estimating liberally:
Now in 2007: 20 million
2010: 22.5 million
2015: 25 million
2020: 27.5 million
2025: 30 million
2030: 32.5 million

That’s a ton of people! The border must be secured and sealed NOW!!!!!!!


5 posted on 06/19/2007 10:56:38 PM PDT by wk4bush2004
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"The plan would guarantee basic medical help for thousands of future migrants as they cross the border," Cordova said."

OK with me so long as it involves mexican payment, mexican hospitals, and permanent loss of rights to re-cross that border.

Embedded data chips would be nice but I'm guessing that would be a non-starter.

6 posted on 06/19/2007 10:58:00 PM PDT by norton
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You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.

The truth is stranger than fiction.

7 posted on 06/20/2007 12:19:46 AM PDT by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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"The health ministers of Mexico and the United States are to work out a joint strategy... "

I don't like it already.

8 posted on 06/20/2007 12:39:43 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (An American Patriot and an anti-Islam kind of fellow. (POI))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait Sen.DiFi, said it was illegal to build a tunnel,she was in san diego at a photo op and she said it was illegal...


9 posted on 06/20/2007 2:14:22 AM PDT by JoanneSD (Illegals represented without taxation.. Citizens taxed without representation)
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Mexico, U.S. To Discuss Health Plan For Migrants (Our Tax Payer Money At Work)!

I don’t have health insurance but have to pay for the ILLEGALS??????

it is time for me to go to mexico and sneak across the border!!!!


10 posted on 06/20/2007 2:39:37 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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Integration proceeds apace.


11 posted on 06/20/2007 2:41:27 AM PDT by hershey
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"The plan would guarantee basic medical help for thousands of future migrants as they cross the border," Cordova said.

That statement alone says it all.

Mexico has no plan to stop illegal immigration (of course, they are encouraging it). And the US government has been given fair warning that whether there is a "Comprehensive Immigration Bill" passed, or not, the illegal flow will continue...Until A FENCE IS BUILT!

12 posted on 06/20/2007 2:53:32 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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This appears to actually have Mexico taking responsibility for the medical costs of people fleeing their dysfunctional country. I would think that would be a good thing, not something that people here would complain about. Mexico has been very reluctant to take any responsibility of any kind for them, and if this is true, it’s a significant step in the right direction.


13 posted on 06/20/2007 2:59:01 AM PDT by livius
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Why is this news in China? Is this an invite and a suggestion for potential chinese immigrants who want to come here illegally?


14 posted on 06/20/2007 4:53:04 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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I work at a university hospital in On the coast in South Texas. Last year there were lay-offs of 1300 people due in most part to the folks who don't pay their bills - mostly illegals. There will be more lay-offs this year.

Folks, if something isn't done soon to stem the tide we're all going to be doing the jobs that the illegals won't do. We are being invaded. Email, telephone, fax and send letters to your senators and congresscritters and let them know we don't want any more illegals and NO AMNESTY.

15 posted on 06/20/2007 5:14:18 AM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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this appears to actually have Mexico taking responsibility for the medical costs of people fleeing their dysfunctional country

Why would you think that? Why do they need us to agree to help? They don't take care of their people now, with millions of aid from us every year, they're not going to start.

16 posted on 06/20/2007 9:28:24 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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Here’s more on this:

Mexico is talking with U.S. officials about cross-border health care for migrants, who would receive basic treatment at U.S. facilities and be treated in Mexico if they required more intensive care.

Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said Monday that discussions with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt are at an initial stage. The plan would depend on what kind of immigration reform, if any, emerges from debate in the U.S. Senate.

He said the aim was for migrants to have access to health care without regard to their immigration or work status.

“We started discussing this topic, which obviously depends in large measure on the evolution of immigration reform,” Cordova told reporters. “But at any rate it is a binational issue that interests us both.”

Cordova did not say who would pay for the migrant health care, or how much it would cost. He said he raised the issue with Leavitt in Geneva during a recent World Health Organization meeting.
Mexico is still struggling to provide health care and health insurance to Mexicans living here. Just over half of Mexico’s population lacks coverage under the country’s large, traditional, government-run health plans.

There are about 11 million Mexicans living in the U.S., both legally and illegally, and about 500,000 more people migrate every year, according to the Mexican government.

A United Nations report on migration released Monday said that lack of opportunities, more than poverty, is what is driving Mexicans to migrate to the United States.

A lack of educational opportunities and little hope for the future are prime factors that push people to migrate, but the extremely poor are least likely to go, because they lack the funds to pay for their journey north, according to the U.N. report.

“It is not the poorest (Mexicans) who are migrating to the United States but those who face equality gaps and see migration as their only option for human development,” said Thierry Lemaresquier, United Nations Development Program representative in Mexico.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/18/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-US-Migrant-Health-Care.php


17 posted on 06/20/2007 9:44:07 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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18 posted on 06/20/2007 10:19:21 AM PDT by gubamyster
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BTT!


19 posted on 06/20/2007 10:36:14 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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A United Nations report on migration released Monday said that lack of opportunities, more than poverty, is what is driving Mexicans to migrate to the United States

No, it's both.

And that's the problem of Mexico and Mexico alone.

20 posted on 06/20/2007 10:36:37 AM PDT by Regulator
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