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Old 03-14-2010, 02:27 PM
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Default Mexico Promotes Free U.S. Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants

Ventanillas de Salud, or Health Windows, now operates at some 40 Mexican consulates around the country.
Mexico Promotes Free U.S. Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants
The program is called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) in Spanish and its mission is to help illegal immigrants find U.S. hospitals, clinics and other government programs where they can get free services without being deported for violating federal immigration laws.
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Indiana are among the cities where Mexican consulates operate the health referral system which annually costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and a whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 Mexicans in the area have benefited from his government’s health referral program, which he says actually saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care rather than waiting for more expensive emergency treatment.
The Southern California operation promises to assess “consulate clients” for eligibility to government-funded health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage. Its goal is to improve access to health services for immigrants of Mexican origin by formalizing a health education, medical home referral and insurance enrollment program.
In Chicago, the Mexican consul’s Spanish-language web site heavily promotes the Illinois Department of Health’s low-cost prescription medicine program for illegal aliens and various free medical services throughout the state. It encourages all Mexicans in the area to pursue the valuable U.S. government-financed services for their entire family.
The Indiana-based program boasts that it serves thousands of “Mexican nationals” living in that state as well as Ohio, Kentucky and southern Illinois. Mexican officials claim that its highly successful pro-health program sends out a clear message to other Mexican consulates throughout the country and the world.
Although these programs facilitate people to remain in the country illegally, Mexico is working hard to expand them to all 47 U.S. consulates to better serve its nationals. In the meantime, U.S. taxpayers will keep picking up the exorbitant tab of medically treating the millions who live in the country illegally.

“Health Windows” — A Window To The World Of Taxpayer-Subsidized Healthcare For Illegals
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times provides some insights:
First came the Mexican consular photo identification cards that closely resembled U.S. driver’s licenses and allowed immigrants, including those in the country illegally, to establish credit and apply for government services.
Then the Mexican government worked with the Treasury Department to make sure the U.S. banking system remained open to immigrants.
Now Mexican consulates in the U.S. are taking on an even more formidable challenge: the healthcare system.
A program called Ventanillas de Salud, or Health Windows, aims to provide Mexican immigrants with basic health information, cholesterol checks and other preventive tests. It also makes referrals to U.S. hospitals, health centers and government programs where patients can get care without fear of being turned over to immigration authorities.
The LAT’s writers point to the growing outrage over the impact of Mexican nationals here illegally, who are boldly availing themselves of healthcare that many bona-fide American citizens are unable to secure:Â
But critics say that illegal immigrants are already an unchecked drain on the public healthcare system and that such programs will only allow them to reap even more benefits.
“It facilitates people remaining in the country illegally,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Clearly it is a policy of the Mexican government … to get all the institutions in the U.S. to provide services to their citizens who are living here illegally.”
Mehlman said Los Angeles County, especially, should not be partnering with the consulate to provide health services. “The county is broke, they are cutting back on services, they are closing emergency rooms, yet they are dreaming up new ways to provide benefits to illegal aliens,” he said. “It’s lunacy.”
Health services to illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County cost the Medi-Cal program nearly $440 million in 2005, according to the California Department of Health Services. Statewide, that number was more than $1.1 billion last year.
Such a deal. Mexico exports its poor and illiterate to the United States, even publishing a guide for them on how to enter the U.S. illegally. In turn, they set up a large network of Consulates across the American landscape to ensure deep penetration into the country by illegal immigrants and, in turn, to provide them with pseudo documentation (i.e., Matricula Consular cards) that serves the illegals well in securing employment, driver’s licenses, banking services, or worse!
In return, Mexico receives billions of dollars in annual remittances from its nationals working in the United States — indeed, remittances have become Mexico’s second largest source of income.

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