Taxpayers foot the bill for undocumented immigrants' medical care

The San Jose Mercury News reports:

Even states with modest illegal immigrant populations have seen their costs soar. Minnesota's spending jumped 40 percent in two years, from $12.5 million in 2003 to $17.4 million in 2005.

In California, home to possibly 40 percent of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, taxpayers have spent an average of $957 million a year since 2001 to pay for emergency care for illegals, the state reported.

Other states with large illegal immigrant populations, such as Texas and Arizona, don't know how much they spend because their computer data is inadequate. But in Houston, the Harris County Hospital District reported spending $97.3 million on uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, or about 14 percent of its annual operating costs.

Just another name for theft.