Supervisor: Cut Illegal Immigrant Healthcare (to fund additional sheriff's deputies)

[The Straight Story]

Supervisor: Cut Illegal Immigrant Healthcare

A Sacramento County supervisor wants to cut non-emergency medical care to undocumented immigrants as a way to fund additional sheriff's deputies.

Supervisor Roberta MacGlashan said she believes the county could save millions of dollars a year if it slashed medical funding to illegal immigrants.

In fiscal year 2007-2008, the county's Medically Indigent Services Program is projected to treat between 2,500 and 4,000 undocumented immigrants at a cost of $1.4 million to $2.3 million.

"We have residents of this county who are here legally who are struggling to provide for their families and for their medical care and their prescriptions and all kinds of things that we're providing at no cost to illegal immigrants and that's my concern," said MacGlashan.

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