Spending 1.5 million dollars on healthcare for an illegal immigrant demonstrates that their "cheap" labor is not very cheap at all. That was one hell of an expensive gardener. Pay US citizens a decent wage, save our hospitals and healthcare infrastructure from being overwhelmed by poor Third Worlders, and in the long run we will all be safer and more prosperous.

It's incredible to me that there is even an issue here. All illegals who become sick or pregnant should be stabilized and returned immediately to their homelands. Our compassion should be exercises through whatever foreign aid to their homelands can be justified to American voters not through welfare to illegals at the expense of our citizenry. Placing any burden for illegals on hospitals and emergency rooms is unjustified beyond what is required to stabilize the patient. Otherwise if I were a foreigner with a long term illness, I would find my way to America as quickly as possible.

Irene, I have been stating that fact since Matt first started. Say Juan has agreed to do your landscaping for $5 per hour. One day you ask him to trim your shrubs or trees. In the process he climbs a ladder on unstable ground, he falls and fractures his tib/fib in his lower leg. The injury requires, ambulance service, surgery and rehabilitation. Meanwhile his pregnant wife will soon give birth to their first child. Now, adding up the $5 per hour and the TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in just health care, how cheap is Juan's labor? Cheap labor is a lie used by people ignorant of the facts and all aspects of "COST". Free medical care is one of the issues bankrupting California right now.

So true truth. Here in California, many of us are drinking recycled sewage water (yum!), yet the "cheap labor" lobby just wants more, more, more. I wonder how fast the Calif. tourist industry will decline once it becomes known that the water bubbling up out of that nice drinking fountain in "New Orleans Square" at Disneyland once swirled around in someone's toilet.