[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11738]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HEALTH CARE COSTS FOR ILLEGALS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, news from the front: The battle for the border 
continues. The cost to Americans for the government's failure to 
prevent the invasion onto our shores increases. Last year in my 
hometown of Houston, citizens spent $125 million on treating 57,000 
illegals in local hospitals, a 77 percent increase from the previous 
year.
  This nonsense that illegals are not a drain on the American taxpayer 
is a myth perpetrated by the admiral of the fleet of invaders, Vicente 
Fox. America cannot continue to be the lifeboat for the sinking ships 
of states south of the border. What happens when our lifeboat overflows 
because of America's compassion? In fact, Americans are paying for 
hospital costs for illegals and cannot afford to pay for their own 
health care. So until our shores are secure, and since we choose not to 
deny illegals health care, every time an illegal is treated at our 
hospital, deduct an equal amount of foreign aid from those ships of 
state who send their citizens here. Make Admiral Fox pay instead of the 
American citizens. And that's just the way it is.

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