Hospital deports illegal brain injured patient

[ElNono]

God Willing, this country will be more like Guatemala someday.

If we have to go by your daily ing, we're probably not that far.

[Crookshanks]

The part that bothers me the most is that, while yes, he is here illegally, he still got hit by someone driving drunk... Why isn't that guy having to pay the bills?

Welllll - since the guy was here illegally, he probably wanted to keep things quiet - so the ambulance chasers didn't know where to find him.

[LnGrrrR]

Yeah, really, I can't fault the hospital. Definitely a gray area, but they kept him for three f'ing years. That's pretty damn generous.

[Wild Cobra]

Yeah, really, I can't fault the hospital. Definitely a gray area, but they kept him for three f'ing years. That's pretty damn generous.

Who was paying for his care?

And people wonder why medical is so expensive!

[Yonivore]

If he's stable, he should be transferred to a hospital in his home country.

[Winehole23]

If he's stable, he should be transferred to a hospital in his home country.

He was. Didn't you read the OP?

Is it a traditional power of hospitals and US states, to deport indigent aliens?

Here it seems, legitimacy appears in the result and works backward. You like the result, ergo, the matter was properly resolved. Was it?

Isn't deportation a feature of federal power?

[Yonivore]

He was. Didn't you read the OP?

Nope.

Is it a traditional power of hospitals and US states, to deport indigent aliens?

Here it seems, legitimacy appears in the result and works backward. You like the result, ergo, the matter was properly resolved. Was it?
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Isn't deportation a feature of federal power?

Being here illegally is a crime. Enforcement at the border is a federal matter. Enforcement elsewhere is anyone's jurisdiction.

Just like bank robbery.

[Winehole23]

Enforcement elsewhere is anyone's jurisdiction.

This is more wish than fact IMO.

[Winehole23]

States do not prosecute under federal law.

[sook]

lol 1.5 mil over 3 yrs.

[LnGrrrR]

Nope.


Being here illegally is a crime. Enforcement at the border is a federal matter. Enforcement elsewhere is anyone's jurisdiction.

Just like bank robbery.

I'm pretty sure normal citizens don't have the right to deport people at their will. I could be wrong, but I'd be surprised if this is the case.

[Marcus Bryant]

I'm pretty sure normal citizens don't have the right to deport people at their will. I could be wrong, but I'd be surprised if this is the case.

I believe you can still bring someone before a magistrate for the commission of a violent crime, provided you caught them in the act. Of course, you probably expose yourself to some kind of claim for unlawful arrest, kidnapping, or some such. At least in certain states. As for deportation, probably not. But Yonivore will plagiarize a blog for ya.

[Wild Cobra]

I'm pretty sure normal citizens don't have the right to deport people at their will. I could be wrong, but I'd be surprised if this is the case.

Lesser of two evils. Get a fine for the improper deportation, or spend millions in support not being reimbursed.

Which is cheaper?

Besides, do we know if he actually requested to go home or not? If he did, what's the issue?

[Marcus Bryant]

Had he been an Irishman then it would've been a nice human interest story. But he was poor, and brown, so get the out of here.

[Winehole23]

Essentially, yes.

[mrsmaalox]

Having been in the business for many years, I salute the social workers of that hospital God knows there is NO money anywhere to transfer a legal American indigent patient anywhere.

[Winehole23]

God knows there is NO money anywhere to transfer a legal American indigent patient anywhere.

Ouch.

[Winehole23]

He was. Didn't you read the OP?

Nope.

Honesty becomes you Y-vor. Why pretend you had any idea what you were talking about? Just spout off.