Mexico, A Failed Country: El Paso Hospital Brings Drug Cartel War to El Paso American Patients

Mexico remains a failed country--getting worse--and the potential for disaster to the U.S. continues if we fail to control our border with Mexico. Further, we cannot let Mexico export her problems to this country. Yet, the pro-illegal immigration forces (and that is what they are--"open borders" people) continue to be only interested in deception. They have no interest in confronting the real problem of illegal immigration from people fleeing the failed country next door, and the real problem of our long border with that failed country.


Yep. I live in El Paso--on the front lines, so to speak. There is a story every day about the drug cartel war across the Rio Grande from El Paso, in Juarez, Mexico. That is, there is a story every day in El Paso. The mainstream media is only interested in their agenda (open borders), and in the deception supporting that agenda.


Today's story is about two Juarez shooting victims being rushed by ambulance to El Paso's county hospital (R.E. Thomason General Hospital). It is actually a first rate trauma hospital--showing the absurdity of the assertion that there is a health care "crisis" in this country unless the Federal Government acts. If El Paso--as poor as a city gets, with 25% of its residents on food stamps, which was the subject of an entry last week in this blog) can provide such high quality medical care to the poor that Mexico sends its shooting victims here, any city and state in this country can do the same (without Federal "help", beyond the numerous Federal programs that exist now). Yes, Mexican policemen are rushed to El Paso, by ambulance waiting at the border, when they are shot.


Heck. For all I know there may be an ambulance permanently stationed at the border to rush Mexican shooting victims to the El Paso hospital. 45 shooting victims have been rushed to El Paso's country hospital from Mexico this year. I am not sure that many people were shot in all of El Paso Country this year. But we have treated 45 shooting victims from Juarez.


WHY? You know. That is a good question. It is unclear (deception again) exactly what the arrangement is. There have been stories in El Paso that it is costing the taxpayers of El Paso (few as they are--consider that 25% of the population of the city receiving food stamps) and Texas considerable amounts of money. Even if Mexico, or people in Mexico, are paying for the medical care itself, patients from Juarez have to have very much increased, expensive (in more ways than one) security taking care away from American citizens.


Again, it is not possible for us to handle Mexico's problems. We are not responsible for those problems. We cannot allow Mexico to export its problems here. That is what Mexico appears to be doing with illegal immigrants (to this country). It is definitely what Mexico is doing with regard to these shooting victims.


Now you say that we need to be compassionate, and help people in need? I agree, within reason, and in extraordinary circumstances where our help will do some good. However, does it really help Mexico for us to assume the burden for Juarez shooting victims (remember, 45 of them this year alone, and increasing)? Mexcio has to do better than that handling its own problems. We have bailed General Motors out for no bood reason, but at least we have (even if it is deception, too) demanded that GM get its house in order. Mexico is not getting its house in order, and yet we are seemingly, increasingly, bailing out Mexico in any number of ways. That way lies disaster for this country, and it is doubtful it is really helping Mexico (as it is doubtful that the aid to GM will ultimately save GM).


Surely, we should be demanding that Mexico pay the full cost, including the security cost, to people of this country represented by Mexican citizens being treated in this country for gunshot wounds. Surely, we should not be allowing those people to be rushed to this country merely on condition they pay the subsidized medical bills (unclear whether they are even fully doing that). It is absolutely insane for us to be subsidizing Mexico, because of Mexico's virtual takeover by the drug cartels--resulting in a hospital not even being able to take a shooting patient without major security risk. Why should that not be the task of a Mexican hospital, when Mexico is responsible for its own people? Again, there is simply no excuse not to charge any such patient the full cost involved, including indirect security costs. It is absurd to suggest that an El Paso Country hospital is obligated to take Juarez emergency patients, as if they were U.S. emergency patients, without full reimbursement of costs. But that is the type of insanity that has characterized our total policy with regard to illegal immigration and the Mexican border.


Our "policy" toward the Mexican border and illegal immigration, as well as such things as acting as an emergency trauma center for the Mexican drug cartel war (providing even security, as American citizens are placed in danger), is an insane policy. Indications are that it will get even more insane under Obama.