Like many of these comments posted, the public is mis-informed about the details of the current eligibility policies which have devastating consequences to immigrant families and their legally born children and to the public at large. If folks aren't getting basic preventative care like immunizations or cheaper treatments for diabetes, then the social costs to everyone are higher. We can't have it both ways folks: a demand for a labor industry composed of Mexican immigrants that supports the backbone of New Mexico's economy and a backlash against the same folks who cook, clean, farm and develop all the hot realestate in Bernalillo County. Happy labor day by the way!

Like many of these comments posted, the public is mis-informed about the details of the current eligibility policies which have devastating consequences to immigrant families and their legally born children and to the public at large. If folks aren't getting basic preventative care like immunizations or cheaper treatments for diabetes, then the social costs to everyone are higher. We can't have it both ways folks: a demand for a labor industry composed of Mexican immigrants that supports the backbone of New Mexico's economy and a backlash against the same folks who cook, clean, farm and develop all the hot realestate in Bernalillo County. Happy labor day by the way!

Like many of these comments posted, the public is mis-informed about the details of the current eligibility policies which have devastating consequences to immigrant families and their legally born children and to the public at large. If folks aren't getting basic preventative care like immunizations or cheaper treatments for diabetes, then the social costs to everyone are higher. We can't have it both ways folks: a demand for a labor industry composed of Mexican immigrants that supports the backbone of New Mexico's economy and a backlash against the same folks who cook, clean, farm and develop all the hot realestate in Bernalillo County. Happy labor day by the way!

Like many of these comments posted, the public is mis-informed about the details of the current eligibility policies which have devastating consequences to immigrant families and their legally born children and to the public at large. If folks aren't getting basic preventative care like immunizations or cheaper treatments for diabetes, then the social costs to everyone are hirer. We can't have it both ways folks: a demand for a labor industry composed of Mexican immigrants that supports the backbone of New Mexico's economy and a backlash against the same folks who cook, clean, farm and develop all the hot realestate in Bernalillo County. Happy labor day by the way!

No wonder this state is in the red.

Solution……keep the illegal aliens here and pay their health care expenses and then lay off “state workers” aka legal residents in order to balance the budget. Will that make “people who don't make sense” aka democrats, happy?????

I'd hate to see State Rep. Eleanor Chavez's household budget…..apparently, she don't give a hoot about the state's red ink.

This is what we get for being turned into a “sanctuary state” without it being a ballot initiative. So that contractors can have cheap labor.

I call these children “the new bastards”. We used to discriminate against people whose parents didn't have marriage paperwork. Now it's immigration paperwork. Did you know that poor people not born here aren't entitled to Medicaid until they have been here legally for 5 years? What are they supposed to do in the meantime?

To me, this is parallel to making sure everyone's kids are in school so they are becoming literate, productive members of society and not getting into trouble or becoming child labor.