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Undocumented Not the Burden Anti-Immigrant Advocates Make Them Out to Be

08:30 H | Topics: Controversia - Health - Immigration

Anti-immigrant advocates are going to need a new line because, according to a new study, saying that undocumented immigrants are a strain on the health care system just isn't true. Yesterday researchers from the University of California's School of Public Health released findings that demonstrated that most undocumented immigrants don't have a primary care provider but that they also, contrary to popular belief, don't visit emergency rooms any more often than U.S born Latinos.

The study was based on a telephone survey done in 2003 and no dubt will be picked apart by anti-immigration fanatics.

The researchers said illegal Mexican immigrants had 1.6 fewer visits to doctors over the course of a year than people born in the country to Mexican immigrants. Other undocumented Latinos had 2.1 fewer physician visits than their U.S.-born counterparts, they said.

Via / Yahoo News

Image Via / NYT

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