'Border baby' boom strains S. Texas
More illegal immigrants are pouring into the state to give birth
By JAMES PINKERTONRIO GRANDE CITY — First it was a trickle, now it's a flood.
Rising numbers of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America are streaming into Texas to give birth, straining hospitals and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, health officials say.
Doctors and health officials say they are overwhelmed by both the new arrivals and those immigrant mothers who already are in the state. Even Houston's feeling the pinch. An estimated 70 percent to 80 percent of the 10,587 births at Ben Taub General Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital last year were to undocumented immigrants, administrators say... Rest of Story.
The above problem seemed intractable until I received this email from my friend, BW:
The other day, I needed to go to the emergency room.
Not wanting to sit there for 4 hours, I put on my old Army fatigues and sewed a shoulder patch that I had downloaded off the internet onto the sleeve of my shirt.
When I went into the E.R., I noticed that three-quarters of the people got up and left.
I guess they decided that they weren't that sick after all.
Here's the patch.
Feel free to use it the next time you're in need of quicker emergency service.
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