Mexican Ambulance Raids

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Mexican Ambulance Raids

From Brownsville, Texas, to Douglas, Arizona, Mexican ambulance drivers "are transporting
hospital patients unable to pay for medical care or emergency-room services in their country to
facilities in the United States, where their treatment is mandated by federal law," reported the
December 12th Washington Times. "The patients are being transported through the U.S.-
Mexico border’s many unguarded crossings when hospitals along the border are reporting
losses of more than $200 million in unreimbursed costs for treating illegal aliens, and the
numbers continue to rise."

"Hospitals in Mexico are pointing the ambulances north when they discover a patient can’t pay
for services and has no insurance," a federal law-enforcement official told the newspaper.
"They know they can get treatment in this country." Under the federal Emergency Medical
Treatment and Active Labor Act, hospitals with emergency room services are required to treat
anyone who requires care, including illegal aliens — but the act does not specify who is liable
for the costs. "Some emergency rooms [along the border] have shut down, and others will
close because they simply cannot afford to stay open," protests Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
"Meanwhile, taxpaying American citizens are denied care or have to wait an inordinate amount
of time to receive emergency care."

Sen. Kyl has proposed a bill providing for federal reimbursement of emergency care for illegal
aliens, but his proposal would simply exacerbate the problem by creating an even larger
incentive for Mexican ambulance raids. The most cost-effective solution would be for the
federal government to carry out its constitutionally mandated duty to protect our borders
against incursions staged by the hostile regime to the south.