Visiting the ERs Americans won't visit

CAUSE:

The INS estimates that the total unauthorized immigrant population residing in the United States in January 2000 was 7.0 million.

According to those estimates, there were 11.6 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in January 2006.


EFFECT:

ATLANTA - The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday.


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