Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

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We declared it an emergency, because we can't pay it back by the end of the year. So we have six months past the beginning of the year to pay it back. We'll pay it back by March, probably, but we do have until June.

Some of the wounded are serious ones and we need choppers to transfer them to hospitals for immediate treatment. That is the biggest problem but shelter is required too.

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.