What's your take Options

[woody]

So El Paso is close to Juarez Mexico. This year there's been a drug war that's getting out of hand. So far in 08 about {edit}800+ homicides in Juarez alone.

So here's the situation.

Thomason Hospital is the county hospital in El Paso, TX.
What is happening is people are getting shot in Juarez and are being brought to the US (El Paso) to THomason hospital.
At least 2x this year the hospital has been on lockdown with EPPD and Sherriff's guarding the perimeter of the hospital.

Here are some stats form the article below:

• Thomason has treated 28 people wounded in Mexico, spending an estimated $1 million, according to hospital administrators. Nineteen were U.S. citizens or had dual citizenship, and the rest had legal permission to enter the country.
• Mexican officials have repaid the hospital fully for only one of the Mexican officers it has treated and made partial payment for another. Thomason has gotten about $314,000 back from the patients, their employers, insurers and state and federal funding
• Thomason does not want to accept the patients but have no choice under federal law

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...n1.4d87163.html

What's your thought on Mexican citizens (yes some had citizenship but some did not) being transported to the US for medical care and getting treatment with US taxpayer money.

This post has been edited by woody: Aug 18 2008, 10:35 AM

[Seeker]

mexico needs to build their own hospitals and train their own doctors if they want health care, basically rise up and make a better life in mexico instead of mooching off the u.s.

of course they need incentive to do this... letting them die in the street outside the hospital might be incentive enough (but we know mexicans are lazy so it probably won't be)

[woody]

quick Juarez Stats

• 800+ homicides this year
• 100+ in august alone
• 3.5 homicides/day

[jonathan83]

damn. i wonder who most of the victims are. mexican nationals or tourists? criminals or innocent bystanders?

[impala454]

Who's bringing the people from Juarez over to the US?!?! So is this the new way to get into the US illegally? "Hey you shoot me, I'll shoot you, and the US will come pick us up!"

[woody]

I think, not 100% it goes like this:

either:

The hospital in Mexico call the Hospital in the US
the US send an ambulance to the bridge to pick the person up
then bring the person to the US hospital

or

the wounded person walks to the half way point at the top of the bridge (no US Border Patrol at the top of the bridge, only the bottom of the bridge)
at this point, they are on US soil and federal law says the hospital must accept them.

[James]

Mount a sniper up high. If they see a wounded person coming over, shoot them before they get to our side and call it a kill of compassion, similar to putting down a horse with a broken leg.

[woody]

Basically, the below image is at the top of the bridge. Once you cross that little gold line and your in the "Boundary of the USA", you can't be denied a hospital visit.

[Dogmeat]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY MEIXCANS!!!! MORE MEXICANS!!!! MORE MORE MORE!!!! THEY ENRICH OUR CULTURE!!! YAYAYAYAY MOOOOOORE MEXICANS!!!!!!

[jonathan83]

i always thought the sign was just a formality, and the whole area in between the checkpoints was no mans land

[woody]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/21/...-Threatened.php

Two voices were heard over Red Cross radios Tuesday night threatening to kill emergency workers who cared for gunshot victims in Ciudad Juarez, local Red Cross chief Jorge Diaz said.

[chook]

Tell those lazy mesicans not to do a half ass job shooting their victims then!

[Spectatrix]

Barricade them in and let them self-destruct. Don't bring that shit over the border!

[pysex]

We don't close off our borders because the drug trade is one of the biggest pocket liners for politicians. Just like the oil industry with its lobbyists.


I'm just hoping the revolution happens during my lifetime and we completely rape all the douchebags that are fucking this country in the ass.

[FORSAKENR320]

We don't close off our borders because the drug trade is one of the biggest pocket liners for politicians. Just like the oil industry with its lobbyists.


I'm just hoping the revolution happens during my lifetime and we completely rape all the douchebags that are fucking this country in the ass.

why haven't you stockpiled weapons, equipment or skills yet?