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Mexican ambulance raids. (Insider Report).

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From Brownsville, Texas, to Douglas, Arizona, Mexican ambulance drivers "are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care or emergency-room services in their country to facilities in the United States, where their treatment is mandated by federal law," reported the December 12th Washington Times. "The patients are being transported through the U.S.-Mexico border's many unguarded crossings when hospitals along the border are reporting losses of more than $200 million in unreimbursed costs for treating illegal aliens, and the numbers continue to rise."

"Hospitals in Mexico are pointing the ambulances north when they discover a patient can't pay for services and has no insurance," a federal law-enforcement official told the newspaper. "They know they can get treatment in this country." Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, ...

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