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$340 MILLION ANNUALLY, HEALTH CARE COSTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE!

Yes, the annual costs for treating illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County hospitals alone is $340 million. Along the U.S./Mexico border in three states it is another $200 million. These are costs borne by the taxpayers of the different counties in which they are incurred.

Think about that for a minute or two. First, the $340 milliion is in L.A. county, and when you add in the rest of California, you can see one reason why the tax burden is so great. To deny indigent people proper medical care is not right, yet whose responsibility is this? It comes out of your pocket, your neighbor's pocket, from all of us.

It's a staggering amount when it's added up. Nationally it is in the billions. Illegals immigrants, not only from Mexico, but from all around the world, from India, from China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Nicaraugua, Costa Rica, and so on. For more information on this, see the LA Times, Wed., Nov. 5th.

In an effort to reduce these costs, some hospitals are beginning to transfer the patients to hospitals below the border when it is medically safe to do so. Yet, there are those who question such actions. The illegals get into auto accidents or incur hospital expenses for child-birth, illness, and it keeps adding up. Care is much less expensive in Mexico, where many of them come from, but what should we do? It's a question that begs an answer. All the while, the costs mount up.

$340 million, just for Los Angeles County alone. That's a lot of money, isn't it?