ICE Is Helping Alleviate Pressure On America’s Emergency Rooms
‘Do you have any idea how many resources will be opened up for Americans when the illegals are gone? No more waiting in line at an emergency room, no more massive traffic in Los Angeles,’ Stephen Miller said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is helping alleviate pressure on America’s emergency rooms because illegal aliens believe they might be arrested and deported if they use the emergency services.
Illegal aliens are well-known to abuse such emergency services for non-emergencies, not pay, and leave the American people to pay for it. But the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS) confirmed to The Federalist that recent ICE activity is stopping many illegals from seeking emergency services as well as scheduled appointments.
“We can confirm that our health system has in fact seen a decline in both Emergency room visits and in rates of patients showing up to scheduled health appointments,” LACDHS told The Federalist. The department also claimed that “the fear caused by the aggressive approach of the ICE raids has left many in the LA County communities fearing for their safety. Regardless of immigration status, the patients we serve are expressing fear and anxiety.”
LACDHS operates the Los Angeles General Medical Center, which has notoriously long wait times and is “known to have a lot of illegal immigrants,” Dr. Jared Ross, an emergency room physician in Missouri who worked in the LA General emergency room during medical school, told The Federalist. Ross described exorbitant wait times while working there, sometimes 10-plus hours.
With LA General seeing a drop in illegal alien patients, even on top of the state-provided and taxpayer-funded benefits given to them, it is hard to imagine hospitals across the country have not experienced same phenomenon.
“We have a massive problem with ER overcrowding in the country,” Ross added, stating that the issue is extremely complicated and that there are numerous ways that illegals have abused the American health care system.