well, we, here in texas, we have the tp30 law, if an illegal alien or anyone undocumented from out of the united states comes and has their baby, they can apply for the tp30 law and get an emergency medicaid and medicaid pays for their bill. you re right, once they re born, they re here, and no one can kick them out. the extreme, i have had patients who wait in mexico, start labor, they wait until they re very far along in their labor, then they swim across the river and have their baby on the bank. then the border patrol comes and finds them, the lady with a baby, newborn, still stuck on to the placenta, and thank god we have wonderful border patrol agents who have been able to take care of these situations. i have had about three of those cases, they come, get the best
care, the best pediatricians, the best neonatologists to cover them f they decide they re not going to apply for the tp30, they leave and nobody gets paid. another thing, is that apparently, if they apply for medicaid for the emergency medicaid, that means that they will not become a citizen ever, unless they pay back everything. that s an incentive for them to pick up and leave. laura: i got it. by the way, doctor, i have to say, i feel like you re helping us diagnose this problem. you are in effect treating the lack of knowledge, the ignorance, on the part of so many of us. you just explained that, i didn t quite understand it. and i ve been doing this issue for like 20 years. you served a really important purpose. we re going to have you back, because we re going to do a whole panel on the hidden costs of immigration that nancy pelosi and the democrats never want to talk about. it s picking the pocketbook of
about, you re right. tucker: the president said the immigrants should be getting federal benefits for five years. i m wondering how is there an argument against that? how can you say it to people around the world, come here and will pay you welfare benefits that the opposite of what we would want, isn t it? if they are paying taxes, there s a lot of u.s. citizens that don t pay any taxes. are they paying the ticket on the bus? if they are paying their fair share, there s nothing wrong with that, that s what we sign up for. tucker: you don t know what you re talking about. there s a fund called emergency medicaid it s $2 billion a year. that goes exclusively to illegal aliens is not an argument, it s established but you re making me frustrated because i know what i m talking about and you don t. that s at the point of this conversation. the point is why would you invite people to this country and put them on welcome there.
about, you re right. tucker: the president said the immigrants should be getting federal benefits for five years. i m wondering how is there an argument against that? how can you say it to people around the world, come here and will pay you welfare benefits that the opposite of what we would want, isn t it? if they are paying taxes, there s a lot of u.s. citizens that don t pay any taxes. are they paying the ticket on the bus? if they are paying their fair share, there s nothing wrong with that, that s what we sign up for. tucker: you don t know what you re talking about. there s a fund called emergency medicaid it s $2 billion a year. that goes exclusively to illegal aliens is not an argument, it s established but you re making me frustrated because i know what i m talking about and you don t. that s at the point of this conversation. the point is why would you invite people to this country and put them on welcome there.
there have been two presidents republican and obama who have not reversed the executive order but that s the law. president trump is not doing anything tucker: let s back up a tiny bit. immigrants, legal and illegal receive a whole host of welfare benefits. undocumented do not. tucker: you re wrong, it pays for almost 100% of emergency. it s true. tucker: i m not going to debate effect, that i know when you don t know. there s a special federal fund that pays those bills and they go almost exclusively to illegal aliens. that s not what were talking