" (Cromer, 2007) it is related in Cromer's report that "That fight cost Dr. Rogers his job. In a two sentence memo to Dr. Rogers, the county's Health and Human Services director, Lynn Frank, informed him that he was fired, but thanked him for his services. No reason for his termination was offered..." (Cromer, 2007) According to Cromer "The local cost of the medical treatment provided to illegal immigrants is small when contrasted to the billions of dollars the state and federal governments spend every year on the 'undocumented' but the numbers have grown dramatically. According to county health officials, the hundreds of illegal immigrants who were being treated through the indigent program in the mid-1990s have now grown to thousands of people, with the annual cost to taxpayers swelling into the millions of dollars." (Cromer, 2007)
The work entitled: "Illegal Aliens Bringing Drug-Resistant TB and other Diseases with Them" states that: "In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reports the emergence in the U.S. Of a particularly virulent, multi-drug -resistant form of tuberculosis known as MDR-TB. Evidence of it has surfaced in 38 of 61 California health jurisdictions, and it could 'threaten the efficacy of TB control efforts,' Granich said. The infected were said to be four times as likely to die from the disease and twice as likely to transmit the disease to others. Reluctant to label the infected as 'illegal' or even 'undocumented' aliens, the report notes that of the 407 known cases of MDR-TB, 84% were 'foreign-born' patients, mainly from Mexico and the Philippines who'd been in the U.S. less than five years. The percentage of TB cases among the 'foreign-born' jumped from 29% in 1993 to 53% as of last year." (the Business Word, 2005) the report continues by stating that: "What is unseen is their free medical care that has degraded and closed some of America's finest emergency medical facilities, and caused hospital bankruptcies: 84 California hospitals are closing their doors. 'Anchor babies' born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income.... By default, we grant health passes to illegal aliens. Yet many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease." (the Business Word, 2005)
The work entitled: "Illegal Aliens and American Medicine" states that: "The influx of illegal aliens has serious hidden medical consequences." (Cosman, 2005) Medical care for these individuals is stated to have "degraded and closed some of America's finest emergency medical facilities, and caused hospital bankruptcies; 84 California hospitals are closing their doors. 'Anchor babies' born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income..." (Cosman, 2005) the problem has been that while "43 million lives are at risk in American because of lack of medical insurance. What is unseen is that medical insurance does not equal medical care. Uninsured people receive medical care in hospital emergency departments (EDs) under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA) which obligates hospitals to treat the uninsured but does not pay for that care." (Cosman, 2005) Cowman relates that "High-technology EDs have degenerated into free medical offices. Between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services became unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals verge on closure. Even ambulances from Mexico come to American EDs with indigents because the drivers know that EMTALA requires accepting patients who come."
The following figure shows the overall immigration population in the United States for the years 1900 through 2002.
Immigrant Population 1900-2002
Source: The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Facts, Figures and Statistics on Illegal Immigration (2007)
The work entitled: "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Facts, Figures and Statistics on Illegal Immigration" states: "the numbers of immigrants are higher than they have ever been and the numbers of illegal immigrants is approaching the number of legal immigrants. Some of the newer data actually indicates that annual number of illegal aliens entering now exceeds illegal immigrants." (2007) Noted as well is the statement of Robert J. Samuelson in the June 13, 2006 Newsweek article entitled: "The Hard Truth of...
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