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...recent years, companies all over the U.S. have sprung up to guide Americans through the insurance and logistical hurdles of surgery abroad, including many in U.S. border states affiliated with medical facilities in Mexico. The physician-managed MedToGo in Tempe, Arizona, founded in 2000, says its clients save "up to 75% on medical care" by getting it in Mexico. The Christua Muguerza hospital system - located in Mexico, but run by U.S.-based Christian hospital group since 2001 - includes a scrolling text box on its web site informing visitors how "very close to you" its Mexican facilities are. ("from Houston...
...very different from Secretary Michael Chertoff in two major ways. First, she is a notch to the left of Chertoff on immigration matters, having repeatedly criticized the building of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and having opposed state bills targeting illegal immigrants. Still, as governor of Arizona, she knows more about immigration than any other DHS fiefdom (and there are hundreds), so it's safe to assume that it will remain a top priority for the agency. And Napolitano is far from liberal on immigration: she was the first governor to call for the National Guard to protect...
...including Napolitano, have protested the costs of REAL ID, a 2005 law passed by Congress to upgrade the security of drivers' licenses, as well as the failure of the Federal Government to take a lead in repairing the country's immigration policies. (Napolitano declared a state of emergency in Arizona in 2005 to direct more funds to the state's border...
...Before being elected governor in 2002 and again in 2006, Napolitano was U.S. Attorney for Arizona during the Clinton Administration and then served as the elected attorney general. She and Chertoff know each other from their days as federal prosecutors and have worked together on immigration matters. And Chertoff is already signaling his support for her, which will help assure her a smooth confirmation. "Secretary Chertoff thinks very highly of Governor Napolitano," says spokesman Russ Knocke, "and considers her a personal friend...
...Barack Hussein Obama places his brown hand on that black Bible ..." Neither "color" reference was necessary. Such gratuitous emphasis on racial differences will surely not help "black, white and brown" do as Jakes suggests and "melt into a brilliant depiction of red, white and blue." Rich Zettlemoyer, Gold Canyon, Arizona...