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"Laura Bush murdered her boy friend" |
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24 Dec 2006 12:58:41 PM |
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CA taxpayers pay for 100,000 births by illegal women every year |
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16312469.htm
Posted on Sun, Dec. 24, 2006
Medi-Cal pays for over 100,000 births by undocumented women
LOS ANGELES - More than 100,000 undocumented women each year bear
children in California with expenses paid by Medi-Cal, according to
state reports.
Such births and related expenses account for more than $400 million of
the nearly $1 billion that the program spends annually on health care
for illegal immigrants in California, the Los Angeles Times reported,
citing state reports.
California long has been one of the more generous states in offering
such benefits to illegal immigrants, covering everything from pregnancy
tests to postpartum checkups.
Many illegal immigrants who might otherwise shy away from government
services view care associated with childbirth as safe to seek.
"I wasn't afraid at all," said Sandra Andrade, an illegal immigrant
from Colombia who recently gave birth at a Los Angeles hospital. "I'd
always heard that pregnant women are treated well here."
Nationally, a debate is simmering about the costs of providing medical
care to illegal immigrants.
Anti-illegal immigration groups argue that "birthright" U.S.
citizenship for babies born in America is an incentive for illegal
immigrants to have their children here.
"I think most Americans think that while they certainly don't want to
do anything to harm children you cannot have a policy that says anybody
in the world come here and have a baby and we have a new American,"
said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation of American
Immigration Reform, an immigration control group based in Washington,
D.C.
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