Associated Press/Savannah Morning News
An illegal immigrant who suffered a stroke while in custody has cost a Georgia county $400,000 in medical bills.
Sick illegal immigrant costs one county $400,000
The man, whose name was not released, suffered a massive stroke while he was in jail. His last arrest was for drug trafficking charges.
Chief Deputy Stan Copeland told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the man was in a coma and now requires constant care because he is paralyzed. He does not have health insurance.
County officials contacted the federal government but were told the man cannot be deported because he is from Cuba. Attorney Joseph Rosen, who specializes in immigration law, said the United States does not deport people back to Cuba, regardless of the circumstances.
Prosecutors have dropped charges against the man, freeing the county government of future bills.
Chief Deputy Stan Copeland told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the man was in a coma and now requires constant care because he is paralyzed. He does not have health insurance.
County officials contacted the federal government but were told the man cannot be deported because he is from Cuba. Attorney Joseph Rosen, who specializes in immigration law, said the United States does not deport people back to Cuba, regardless of the circumstances.
Prosecutors have dropped charges against the man, freeing the county government of future bills.
but then the legal citizens in this country who NEED help, who are NOT criminals and are NOT leeches of welfare, can NOT get medical help!! Some people say you CAN get FREE health care in US, but my daughter, who does NOT have insurance and can NOT find a job, can NOT get medicaid, had to go to ER in Griffin and did NOT get it FREE!!! They have even gotten a lawyer to send her letters after the money she can not pay.
Why won't they do this to the SORRY PEOPLE!?!?!
IN GOD WE TRUST
If we were a FREE SOCIETY, there would be no such thing as ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, correct??
Anyone who agrees with what is stated in this article is just beyond sense to me.
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You have made a valid point as to some individuals that sponge of the government and refuse to work. Hispanic workers do spend their hard earned wages in the local economy.
However, you forget the overall issue and that is that you are here illegally. That fact is paramount despite your "small" economic contributions to local vendors. You and your ilk are sponges like the "gringos" you mention in your statement, which choose to depend on the government for financial sustenance.
I don't have a problem with you "legally" applying for citizenship to this country, but to hide and take advantage of the services or rights of legal citizens of this country only demonstrates that you do not wish to be an American citizen. You wish to remain as a burden to be carried by hard working citizens. Or very much like those you mentioned in your statement.
So which do you despise more, the lazy gringos or yourself?
WE'RE GOING TO SCREW YOU GRINGO!!!
IN GOD WE TRUST
What?? They ARE being paid, by YOU and the rest of the GA taxpayers.
'' Forget the "illegal alien" part of the story. Focus on a bill for a stroke in a hospital coming to $400,000! How many of us could pay for that?''
none of us, but we couldn't have the GA taxpayers pay for it, either, like this 'illegal alien' can.
if we all get rid of health insurance, doctors will be back to working for a chicken.