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Article: Illegal Immigrants Pose Issues Of Cost, Conscience for Area
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 25, 1994
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Under U.S. immigration laws, Darcy and Isabel have no right to
be here. Yet in the five years they have lived in Arlington, their
family has received tens of thousands of dollars in
government-financed medical care and other benefits.
Since the couple arrived illegally from Peru in 1989, two of
their three children were born. As U.S. citizens, Michael, 4, and
Randy, 2, receive milk and food through anti-poverty programs. After
Randy's heart defect was diagnosed, two operations were paid for by
taxpayers through the Medicaid program.
Illegal immigrants are pouring into the United States and
increasingly are getting government subsidies for housing, health
care and food. As they do so, a ...