Why should illegal immigrants in the U.S. receive basic health services?
399833
They shouldn't. They don't deserve shit and you can quote me on that. Let's just deport their asses.
1144302
EXACTLY!! With so many ILLEGALS in the country,ALL of our social services are being DRAINED!! There will be NO medical services when WE need them!! Hospitals in Arizona are either closing the doors,or about too,because of the MILLIONS of illegals who come here,use our system,then do NOT pay their bills!! Also,eventually, EVERYONE ELSE will be the MINORITY in our OWN country!!! Soon,the MAJORITY of politicians would be hispanic!!! THEY would work to benefit THEIR OWN people!!! Just LOOK at Martinez,he is one of the IDIOTS that helped draft the amnesty bill!!!! You see where this is GOING??!!!!
345810
America is the only industrialized nation in the world who does not have a national heath care system. People who aren't wealthy, don't have health insurance, and aren't poor enough to qualify for medicaid, get screwed.\n\nIsrael also has guaranteed housing, while we have homeless.\nDoesn't make sense to me...
523180
1. They are entering the country illegally, meaning they are breaking the law\n2. We don't know who they are, where they are going, and what they plan on doing, so they provide a huge security risk.\n3. Some of these people are abusing our system by using our health care system without paying into it, they also find ways to fraudulently use other systems (welfare, food stamps etc) without paying taxes to help refund these.
453928
If you go to the local health department they will treat you regardless as to whether or not you are a citizen of this country or not.\n\nI think the biggest thing is not about taxes its about them being here "illegally"...if they are working they should get work visas.
1042782
the same reason someone here illegally is receiving medicaid help...our government is totally screwed up!!!
470526
they bottom out the wage base,and greedy AMerican employers make a larger profit because nobody else will work as cheaply. They financially drain free healthcare programs, making it more difficult for Americans to utilize them. They force the US to pay big money to ship them back home when they are caught. There are disease,biological and homeland security risks from coming across the borders un-inspected. They cause stiffer regulations for those people who want to legally migrate.
16248
The argument that they are "strain on the economy" is completely bogus. USA does NOT provide social services for illegal immigrants -- in fact, social services even for American citizens are very skimpy compared to other developed nations (e.g. Canada or Europe). People are loud about this, but it's hard to point to concrete economic benefits of NOT having illegal immigrants in the USA. \n\nIllegal immigrants generally work here, and mostly in jobs that Americans refuse at a low wage level (e.g. picking vegetables for 10 hrs a day in California sun). Kick them out and, among other things, you'll quickly see the price of veggies rise dramatically your local Safeway rise dramatically -- that much for the "drag on the economy" argument.\n\nAlso, imagine for a moment how much it would COST to deport all illegals -- I'm sure it'll work out to several hundred dollars per capita (hidden in the lump sum of your taxes, of course) -- would you be ready to pay, say $300 for this?\n\nU.S. policy on immigration is highly hypocritical -- illegals are pretty much encouraged to come in, in the interest of business community, and then treated as a subhuman species once in the country. \n\nWhat the U.S. needs is a reform of LEGAL immigration -- yes, tighten the borders, but also if we NEED some classes of labor, give temporary worker visas for people WE need to do it. \n\nIf there was no need for these jobs in the U.S. in the first place, nobody would come here. Most immigrants don't come here out of love of our freedom, high moral values and state subsidies but for economic opportunity.\n\nThe illegals that are already in the country are difficult to handle -- but the situation is American government's fault. People, predictably, pursue their happiness, and illegal immigrants are in no way less human or deserving of compassion than American citizens. \n\nIllegals should be given some status and recognition, if only to make it easier for the government to handle them. Giving them full legal status might not be fair to people who came here legally, but any solution is bound to be a compromise anyway. \n\nThe question of "deport or legalize people currently here" does not make much sense in isolation -- both actions are futile, if they are not a part of a more sweeping immigration reform, the one recognizing existing economic pressures and incentives for both U.S. businesses and potential immigrants.
1073739
The COST to legal taxpayers is ENOURMOUS!  MOST Illegals do not pay their hospital bills,and the COST gets passed on to taxpayers in the form of HIGHER rates for OUR medical services!!  MILLIONS of illegals come here,have their "anchor babies",which allows the whole BUNCH to stay in the U.S. (just because they had the kid on U.S. soil),  they NEVER pay the hospital,doctor,etc. so the hospitals LOSE millions a year, and they pass the REST of the cost,on to US!!! You can look on line under Copper Queen hospital,it will bring up an article of how illegals USE our system to get services,then NEVER pay!! \n\nAlso,illegals use STOLEN and FAKE i.d.'s to work! My friend had his social security number STOLEN and used by an illegal. He has had a HORRIBLE time trying to get this straightened out just with the IRS!!! The IRS,wanted HIM to pay back taxes on the money earned by the ILLEGAL while using the stolen number! I heard on the news about a month ago,that at one plant, there were about THIRTY illegals using the SAME social security number to work!!!!\nThen we have the other social services received by ILLEGALS that the TAXPAYERS pay for!!! There is food stamps,WIC,AFDC, and  special education programs for  ILLEGALS kids,free lunches at school for illegals kids! AND, until a couple of years ago when Arizona passed  prop200, ILLEGALS were even given LOW-INCOME housing, because they were considered migrant workers!!! \n\nIllegals EXPOSE us to many diseases that we have NO cure for! At least,if they come here LEGALLY,they have a background check run (there are OVER a million violent crimes committed by illegals every year!) AND,they are screened for any communicable diseases!!! Some illegals that come here.are coughing up bloody t.b.!!! My friend works in a prison,and they had an illegal in there who had t.b.,and the illegal told my friend,that he worked for Tyson chicken!!! Do YOU want somone like THAT coughing up bloody t.b. or anything like THAT on YOUR food???\nThen,we have all the illegals and the coyotes,whi put ALL our lives in danger,with their shootout,and the accidents caused by them RUNNUNG from authorities! Not to mention the drugs,gangs,trash,etc!!\n\nI live in a border state,and i have SEEN IT ALL!!!! I could tell you MORE,but it would take all day!!
1056825
Illegal immigrants make up a huge chunk of the base of the work force, pay taxes (both on their pay and in sales taxes, etc), keep money moving around the system just like anyone who lives here (by buying groceries, gas, clothes, etc), and actually receive less in social services than legal immigrants because they're not able to get many social services without paperwork (despite what certain right-wing lies you might hear).
843593
You are totally right. Only 17% of Hispanics are on welfare and the ones that are have to be legal. As of free health care, usually illegal immigrants don't take advantage of it because they believe they'll get deported even though there's no way that may happen.\n\n__Give me as many thumbs down as you'd like. HATE ME BECAUSE I'M MEXICAN. It sucks living with hate inside. I don't care how much Americans hate Mexicans, I'm still very HAPPY!!!
1176600
We definitely need screening for disease.  Resistant TB is now here, we had eradicated it in this country, and legal immigrants are screened.  Ditto polio, and to at least one account, leprosy.\n\nI'm going to include a link to something I got off of a question today.  The rhetoric is strong, but the citations and links are there to the important stuff, so I still think it has value.  It discusses health issues in illegal immigration.\n\nhttp://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeleine3.htm
638029
because they protect illegal immigrants.....
471404
Funny thing is, I am a LEGAL resident and I can't go to a doctor because I don't have health insurance, and not even once it crosses my mind going to the ER to get primary care. I pay my taxes and do everything by the book, and as a legal resident I cannot (and don't want anyways) use any kind of welfare until I have been working here for 10 years (that's my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong) but the illegals always find a way to misuse the system. Do you know how many families "recycle" insurance cards to fraudulently get medical care because in one family they have 5 "Maria Perez"'s? Sorry, that's illegal and it puts a huge strain on the medical system. And of course those living of of welfare...So I don't think they should use the hospitals to survive, the HC system is already falling apart! I will not deny them of medical care but I don't think it's right. What needs to be done is to fix the problem at the root, and not just use "quick fixes".
686148
We are NOT all fine. There are people who cannot are refused health care because an illegals got there first. Auto insurance is higher than it should be because illegals don't pay for it. Apartments and home rentals are higher because of the inflated demand caused by illegals. America is suffering in many ways as a result of these illegals.
245958
The Government states that every person who enters the country ilegally is only commiting an administrative violation (not a criminal one- unless the person has been previusly deported)under the Immigration & Nationality Act. That's how the law is written. Supreme Court rulings have made it difficult for State & Federal Government to deny benefits to people even if they cannot provide a Government issued document (Driver's License, Birth Certificate, SS Card etc...) or evidence of Legal Status in the U.S. \n\nE.G. According to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, hospitals must treat anyone who shows up for care, despite the fact they may be an illegal alien and a threat to national security.\n\nA critical issue involving illegal immigrants’ use of welfare benefits is that even if they aren’t eligible to receive benefits, they will collect on them because their children, who are born in the U.S., are considered native residents (and eligible for benefits). A Center for\nImmigration Studies analysis determined that illegal Mexican\nimmigrants impose significant costs on public coffers because they are twice as likely to use welfare programs, and that the increasingly large numbers of unskilled workers obtain low income positions. Ultimately they have children in the U.S. and will continue to drain benefits from the American taxpayer.\n\nACLU & other Pro-Ilegal Immigration groups exist because they also receive benefits and incentives thanks to ***Taxpayers Money*** ( Non-Profit Org.)You draw you own conclusions and take affirmative action !!! This is not the Politicians "trying to save face" problem anymore...
1008670
We should, but it wont happen.  The Mexican government can't provide needed service to its poor people that is why they headed north to the US where they can got free medical, free services.