MMMm love that propeganda

If you read (this) article with your breakfast out in san diego you'd think that Illegals really don't use a lot of emergancy services.

But let me break this down for you.

Researchers at Mexico's National Population Council and the University of California

Lets look at Bias
Universities tend to have a liberal political bias
-IF- you buy into the theory that Mexico has something to gain by people being shunted across the border their government has a reason to twist the results.

that only 9.8 percent of Mexican adult migrants living in the United States 10 years or less visited an emergency room in the past year.

First problem
Not all migrants are illegal aliens.
Second problem
Not all illegal aliens have been illegal for less then 10 years. Some have been illegal for much more. I don't know how representative then only those who have been here ten years or less is to the total population

Among Mexican immigrants living in the United States more than 10 years, 13.7 percent visited an emergency room in the previous year

Here we see the sample change -again-. When you change the sample definitions around you get a different answer. And since we go from migrants under ten and immigrants over ten it seems to suggest illegals were not the only migrants studied.

The study draws on data from the U.S. Census, U.S. National Health Survey and Mexican government to compare health care access in the United States between new arrivals from Mexico, long-staying Mexican immigrants and native born.

Here again it suggested the study used -all- immigrants from mexico, not illegal immigrants. And since the census health survey and mexican government data is well... government data the sample will be heavily titled to legal immigrants

The report found migrants arrive in relatively good health. Only 6.8 percent considered themselves in fair or poor health, much lower than other groups. Only 2.6 percent were diagnosed with diabetes, also much lower than other groups.

problem #1 here we are relying on self identifiers
problem #2 some cultural groups will claim being healthful when they obviously are not.

At this point it interviews "former migrants" but it doesn't say if they were illegal or not.

I love how the media loves its propegandatstic science