Uninsured Immigrant Patients Sent Home for Care Against Their Will – Woman in Coma the Latest Example of Arizona Uninsured Immigrant Facing Forced Removal to Home Country
Tagged: Arizona, fbi, hospital, insurance, Mexico, policePosted on: May 22nd, 2008
Hundreds of legal and illegal immigrants in Arizona are being sent back to their home countries, sometimes against their will, for medical treatment because they lack insurance.
In some cases, the FBI and police, responding to allegations of kidnapping, have been called in to halt such forcible removals, according to patients’ lawyers. In one recent case, a sick baby who is a U.S. citizen born to an illegal immigrant was being transferred by helicopter to a waiting air ambulance for a flight to a hospital in Mexico when Tucson police intervened and brought the child back to the hospital.”*
Curation from Tomás
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