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.
I think that’s why ‘they’ get away with so much. Much of these ‘policies’ are so unreasonable as to not be believed.
Impeach Bush now.
His arrogance and intransigence on this subject have exceeded all tolerance. The man is a public menace, not a National President.
I do think we need to tell this president he should resign.
However, I do not think Cheney would be an improvement. He surrounded himself with open border types for domestic advise. Cesar Conda was his head domestic advisor and open border biggie.
Every day it is something else that makes me even more disgusted with this Administration. I don’t understand it at all and the pandering to Mexico.
Some of us hit that point 3, 4 years ago. After Bush was re-elected the very first thing he did was go to Mexico and had a totalization agreement drawn up.
I remember that and also remember election night 2006 when Tony Snow came out and said the President was looking forward to working with the Dem leadership on Immigration.
Personally believe that some of our candidates that lost were tanked by his henchman who we are still paying his salary. Especially Graf and Hayworth. He shut off funding to Dr. Tom in 2004 when the candidate of choice did not win the primary and shut down fundraising in D.C.
In recess? Nobody told Congress they're in recess.
I am looking for a good pro bono attorney to file a Writ of Mandamus against Chertoff and Bush. Maybe a class action suit?
writ of mandamus
an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official’s discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail
I've been looking for that for years. Good luck.
That’s bad news. The third in line is that Bolshevik Pelosi.
Once again, heads they win, tails we loose.
>>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.<<
What is congress going to do about US citizens killed by illegal aliens? Charity begins at home.
The health ministers of Mexico and the United States are planning to screw over the American taxpayers yet again, if we allow it.
Wonder if they will give us medical treatment when going south?/sc
We already give them medical treatment! Check out the local waiting room at a hospital in Los Angeles where the sign states just that, and most of the county services are taken by non-citizens. Citizens get in line!
Don’t just call the ones from your state! All of them work for Americans, not just the voters of their home state. If they give you any guff, tell ‘em to return to their home legislature rather than uphold their Oath of Office.
All I want to know from MExico is where to send the bill.
Free filet mignon dinner for all those who successfully jump the border!!
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