U.S. Hospitals Deporting Unconscious Immigrants: Over 600 in Five Years
Hundreds of undocumented immigrants have been deported from United States hospitals while they were unconscious, after health care providers decided it would cost too much to let them stay.
Two cases in point: Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez Saldana, who were recovering in Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines after both were seriously hurt in a car accident.
Before either of the men awoke, hospital staffers had them flown back to their native Mexico, because it wasn't certain the insurance coverage Cruz and Saldana had received from the pork manufacturing company where they worked covered the type of long-term care they would need.
The hospital indicated the families of the two men gave permission for the transfers, but the families themselves deny it.
Neither Cruz nor Saldana was in the U.S. legally.
When they awoke, the men were 1,800 miles and a border crossing away from the first hospital in Des Moines.
There are hundreds of cases like those of Cruz and Saldana, where undocumented hospital patients have been deported while unconscious, law professor Lori Nessel, director of the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law School, was reported saying in a report by the Associated Press.
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