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[quote=Anonymous]Of course individually most compassionate people want her to stay.

Collectively speaking, she spend an entire year - 12 months in a Children's Hospital in San Diego starting the day she arrived. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times Medi-cal (California's medicaid program for poor) has paid for her treatment. I can't even imagine how many millions a year long stay in a hospital costs. She now also has a nurse the school district pays for who goes to her school to administer the feeding treatment.

Now multiply that with countless other people arriving and also needing intensive medical treatments, surgeries, hospital stays etc. that California taxpayers are paying for. Everyone who crosses into CA  are getting free healthcare if they are poor whether it is from Mississippi, Nevada or Timbuktu.

CA state spending on Medi-Cal has more than doubled since 2017 and is now projected to cost $76.8 billion in the 2024-25 budget year. Earlier this year lawmakers approved an extra $6 billion for unexpected Medi-Cal costs resulting from extending medi-cal to undocumented adults.

A handful of states like CA, Oregon, and Minnesota can't afford to subsidize free healthcare for everyone either from out of state or out of the country.

People talk about moving to more compassionate countries like Canada or Australia. Well neither country would have admitted her. They don't allow people who will become burdens on their healthcare system to stay.

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