Illegal Immigrants and Healthcare

Paper Summary:

The paper contends that healthcare being provided to illegal immigrants is generating financial strains on the system, as well as bringing about an influx of contagious diseases into the country. The paper provides statistics that show how the costs of providing healthcare to illegal immigrants is becoming prohibitive. The paper posits that the only effective solution is to require proof of citizenship before providing healthcare and to prohibit it to illegal immigrants except in emergency situations, with deportation once they recover.

From the Paper:

"According to Padden (2006) an immigration reform bill introduced in the U.S.Congress by Congressman Tancredo of Colorado would make it a crime to provide health care or other social services to illegal immigrants. Tancredo acknowledges the complex moral and ethical issues involved in prohibiting healthcare, but contends that "denying social services to them is something you have to do to stop the magnet effect that all of these combined things have, the health care, free schooling. This is all a magnet that draws people into this country and I'm trying to demagnetize it." Tancredo's bill has not been passed into law as of yet, but there is increasing support in Washington and across the United States for tough legislation of this kind, for the problem of illegal immigrant healthcare costs keeps intensifying."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Canedy, Dana. (August 25, 2002). "Hospitals Feeling Strain from Illegal Immigrants." The New York Times.
• "Economic Costs of Legal and Illegal Immigration." CAIR. Online. Available: http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html. 31 July 2007.
• Malkin, Michelle. (2003). "Illegal Alien Healthcare Has Crippling Effects on Citizens." Insight on the News. Online. Available: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi _m1571/is_7_19/ai_98923512. 31 July 2007.
• Padden, Brian. (April 28, 2006). "Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants in USA Remains Point of Contention." Voice of America.
• Wipf, Peter and Jennifer. (2007). "Impact of Immigration on Healthcare Costs."

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