Freeze Their Assets Off

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas is planning to bill Mexico and other countries to help cover the costs of health care for indigents. This sounds reasonable since last year almost $27 million of the $76.5 spent to treat people from outside dallas was not reimbursed.

According to The Washington Times, this has brought a negative response from the Mexican government, with a diplomat terming it "an act of discrimination."

County Judge Margaret Keliher said she was not hopeful that other counties -- or countries -- would pay up. But, she said, the county commission thought the matter should be made public and bills sent. "If you're not Dallas County residents, we think where you are from should pay for your indigent health care," Judge Keliher said. Hugo Juarez, a consul official at the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, was visibly perturbed. He called the statements made by the judge "a strange posture, a strange reasoning." He said there had been no agreement or contract between his nation and Dallas County that would make such action legal.

Sure Hugo, it's strange to you because if your people were in Mexico they probably wouldn't be getting any decent maedical attention at all. There's no agreement between our countries that allow your people to cross our borders at will, but that doesn't seem to prevent your government from encouraging them to do so.

"What's wrong with sending them a bill?" commission member Maurine Dickey said. She said officials "hoped" the counties that sent their citizens to Parkland would pay something. "We owe it to taxpayers to at least try."

Yes, the American taxpayer is owed not only the attempt, but actual monetary damages from the government of Mexico for the property, lives and social sevices inflicted by their wanton disregard for our laws. We should immediately begin billing the Mexican government for all the costs of illegal crimes (the very act of being here illegally included), seize their assests and recompense the American taxpayer.