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    Please call Texas Senators John Cornyn (who said he wants "comprehensive immigration reform" amnesty) as a priority in 2009, and Kay Bailey Hutchison and tell them that this report is further proof why Texas and the US CANNOT afford "comprehensive reform" amnesty, and why our laws must be enforced.

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    With over 600 comments at the source link lets get in there and mention Alipac maybe get some new members from Texas

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    Over 800 comments now and it's heating up join in and invite them to Alipac.us

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    2old2care wrote:
    Stupid politicians
    "State Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, said the study only tells half of the story.
    He noted that the immigrants contribute to government coffers by paying sales and property taxes."
    90% don't pay ad-valorum property taxes because they live in huge mobile home parks all over the city, and there are no ad-valorum taxes on mobile homes. And most don't pay any sales taxes because the fill out the tax exemption form at Sam's and Walmart, and buy everything they need sales-tax free.
    The real cost is not the medical care, it is the education of their children. The State of Texas gives most school districts about $5,500 per year per student, brown, black, or white. HISD is more than 50% hispanic, and if half of those are children of legal immigrants, then that leaves about 85,000 who arent. That's another 467 million in Houston alone.
    The illegals rape our free and reduced lunch program by lying about their income, then make matters worse by bringing under school age children to school and getting them fed as well.
    They rape our assistance ministries by stripping them of anything worth having, and what they don't use themselves, they sell or send back to Mexico. They even defraud the assistance ministries out of money by lying about being off work so the misistry will pay their rent.
    They rape our welfare, WIC's, and food stamp programs, and they rape the state funded medicare program. The State's budget has increased 64 % in the past 9 years, and a full 1/3rd of the state budget goes to fund medicare expenses, a huge portion of which is stolen by illegal aliens.
    The illegals crowd out highways with un-licensed, and therefore un-insured motorists, causing taxpayers who drive to have to carry uninsured motorist coverage.
    The stupid politicians in Washington think there are 12 million illegals in this Country; it reality, there are 12 million in Harris County, and more like 50 million sprrad out across the country.
    They come from a culture who sees no shame in lying to get something for nothing, and they are ostersized by their peers for being honest.
    Unlike the immigrants who came to this country back in the 1800's, these immigrants don't assimilate into the American Culture. Some have been in the country illegally for 20 years, and still don't speak the English language.
    The illegals have completely taken over residential and commercial construction, and with Harris County housing starts down 39%, many are out of work. While a few went home, the big majority are cruising your neighborhood just after dark, looking for bicycles, tricycles, scooters, lawn furniture and anything else thats not nailed down. Then you can go to any one of a hundred corners, like the one at Suburban and East Mount Houston, and buy your stuff back.
    The illegals make up more than half our prison population, many for violent crimes against Americans.
    Not only have the illegals taken over construction, they dominate food service, hospitality, and trucking. The young black America males who use to do those jobs (that nobody wanted to do) are out of work, with little prospect of finding gainful employment. You would think the black politicians like Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee would be in touch with her constituency, and do what she could to help them. Instead, Her Honor voted for the failed amnesty bill.
    I went to an auction a few weeks ago, and was stunned by what I saw. Obviously well-to-do Hispanic contractors drive up in their $60,000 pickups, and just hold their bid card up until everyone else stops bidding. THey pay for their stuff from the role of hundred dollar bills in their pocket, the size of which would choke a horse. Because they don't pay any taxes, or buy any insurance, the illegals have created a huge underground economy, and as our culture slips under the waves of this recession, they are poised to buy the entire counrty for pennies on the dollar.
    We are a nation of spineless jelly fish, led by people like Bush or Paulson, who are either incompetent or are lying to us. Either way, the American taxpayer is screwed. Don't give me any of that crap that they contribute to this culture. They are raping this culture, and we are only to anxious to let them do it.
    God Save Us

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    ANCHOR BABIES ARE NOT UNITED STATES CITIZENS
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    Quote Originally Posted by grandmasmad
    Lawmakers from both parties said they were not surprised by the millions spent and expressed hope that the report, required by the 2007 Legislature, will help prompt Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

    Now that is the stupidist comment I have read....Make them citizens and then we can't blame them as illegals...cause they are now citizens??????????
    Thats a stupid statement alright! Immigration reform IS NOT GOING TO DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT BY HOSPITALS ON PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE YOU PUT THEM ON A "PATHWWAY TO CITIZENSHIP".
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    There are now 920 comments left at the source link.
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    By Janet Elliott - Houston Chronicle AUSTIN — Local hospital districts spent an estimated $597 million to provide health care to unauthorized immigrants in fiscal 2006, a new report says.

    The report, issued by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said the money was spent by local public hospital districts for uncompensated immigrant care during the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 2006. About 1.6 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the state then, the report said, citing a Homeland Security Department estimate.

    Lawmakers from both political parties said they weren't surprised by the millions spent and expressed hope that the report, required by the 2007 Legislature, will help prompt Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

    State Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, said the study tells only half the story. He noted that immigrants contribute by paying sales and property taxes.

    The report also said the state spent $80 million under the Texas Emergency Medicaid program, which pays hospitals to provide life-saving care, including labor and delivery services, to patients living here without authorization in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 2007. The state also paid $1.2 million to provide services to immigrants in family violence shelters during that same period.

    Federal law requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of their citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.

    The University Health System, the public hospital district for Bexar County, spent $25.7 million on unauthorized immigrants — about 8 percent of its $330 million total for uncompensated care, the report said.

    Leni Kirkman, a spokeswoman for the system, said treating the uninsured, whether legal residents or not, is costly and unavoidable.

    “Those of us with health care are subsidizing those without it,â€
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    I truly believe births to anchor babies and the free hospital care and subsequent benefits paid to illegal moms and their kids are what is bankrupting this country. The number of anchor babies being born each year is staggering and their moms are living off the benefits they get for each one they have. A bad economy means nothing to them cause they aren't working anyway, just collecting off the taxpayers.
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    $1.4M is cost to treat Juárez's wounded

    Erica Molina Johnson / El Paso Times
    Posted: 12/15/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

    More on the violence in Juárez

    EL PASO -- Nearly 50 people wounded in Juárez in 2008 received medical care at Thomason Hospital and racked up medical bills totaling about $1.4 million, hospital officials said.

    Thomason Hospital spokeswoman Margaret Althoff-Olivas said as of Dec. 9, the hospital had been paid about $508,000 of the $1.4 million, and additional payments of $655,875 were anticipated from insurance companies and patients.

    "The vast majority have been multiple gunshot wounds," she said. "A couple of the individuals have been stabbed and some were the result of physical assault."

    Warring drug cartels in Juárez are thought to be responsible for many of the approximately 1,500 homicides there in 2008. Many of the 48 people who were injured in Juárez and transported to El Paso's Thomason Hospital for treatment are also thought to have been victims of the cartel violence.

    "Being a Level 1 trauma center, our folks are so used to dealing with all kinds of patients on any given day at any moment of the day. They are seasoned professionals and I don't think they give a second thought to how the patient was injured," Althoff-Olivas said. "They want to save the patients' lives."

    In 2007, the hospital received 2,493 trauma admissions, and of those, 57 were gunshot wounds. So far in 2008, through Dec. 12 there have been 2,578 trauma admissions, and of those 109 were gunshot wounds.

    Thomason Hospital CEO Jim Valenti stressed to the public in August that federal law does not allow the hospital a choice on whether it treats these patients once they are on this side of the border.

    "The law basically states when a person is on U.S. soil, regardless of national origin, we are obligated by federal law to take care of the individual," Valenti said in August during a breakfast meeting of Commissioner Luis Sariñana.

    Althoff-Olivas said 37 of the 48 people treated at Thomason were U.S. citizens. She said all of them had the proper legal documents to enter the country.

    Although the hospital is required to treat the patients once they are on this side of the border, hospital and local government officials in July traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and leaders from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security to discuss the issue.

    The local officials asked for better understanding of how the patients crossed the border and to ask for help from the federal government to pay for unanticipated, unpaid costs related to the treatment.

    Reyes said this week that he asked the congressional research service to investigate funding options for U.S. hospitals treating non-U.S. citizens who are victims of drug-related violence in Mexico.

    "My staff and I were informed that Section 1011 funding, which provides U.S. hospitals with partial reimbursement for these types of cases, is the only federal resource available," Reyes said in an e-mailed statement. "I will continue to work with my colleagues in the House and Senate and advocate for this funding in the 111th Congress, which convenes in January."

    Assistance to Thomason Hospital could also come as an indirect result of $197 million through the Merida Initiative, which is intended to help support Mexico fight the drug cartels that are responsible for much of the violence throughout the country.

    The first installment of the $400 million aid package to Mexico was released in Dec. 3.

    "This is a very important step, and Juárez is going to benefit from this assistance," Reyes said. "I, along with all El Pasoans, hope this will help restore stability across the border and minimize the number of victims seeking treatment in El Paso."

    Although many of the injuries suffered by those patient brought to Thomason involved violence, the hospital has not instituted increased security levels for most of those patients.

    "That's a law enforcement call, and they've only made that call three times," Althoff-Olivas said. "When law enforcement does not make that recommendation, our security measures are at a normal measure as they would be at."

    Sheriff-elect Richard Wiles said he's eager to get up to speed on the federal issues relating to the treatment of the patients. He added that regardless of these issues, the sheriff's office will respond when necessary.

    "We have an obligation, the sheriff's department and police department, to provide public safety for our citizens," he said. "If somebody does come across and is in need of our hospitals and poses a danger to our citizens, we are certainly obligated to provide that additional staffing to make sure our citizens are safe."

    Erica Molina Johnson may be reached at emolina@elpasotimes.com;546-6132.

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    Time to toughen up, let Mexico provide ER for them. try getting help when you are hurt in mexico, you had better have lots of cash.
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