"Over 1200 hospitals in the southwestern US have (been?) driven to insolvency after being flooded by illegals from Mexico who don't pay for their care" pdq

Documentation, please.

snopes.com


"Most immigrant patients have jobs and pay taxes, through paycheck deductions or property taxes included in their rent, administrators at the Dallas and Fort Worth hospitals said. At both institutions, they have a better record of paying their bills than low-income Americans do, the administrators said.

"The largest group of illegal immigrant patients is pregnant women, hospital figures show. Contrary to popular belief here, their care is not paid for by local taxes. Under a 2002 amendment to federal regulations the births are covered through Medicaid because the children automatically become American citizens."

And the provision of automatic citizenship for anyone born here goes W A Y back.