2013
This from Politico:
To the chagrin of liberals and the immigrant advocacy community, the debate over health care for people seeking legal status appears likely to be over how explicitly to ban their access to benefits – and for how long. “We’ve always said that people who are here illegally and become [provisionally legal immigrants] are not eligible for means-tested public benefits, period,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said last week.
This from the liberal’s liberal.
Now, if you are on the right, you most likely agree with this position. No benefits for illegal immigrants …
The only problem is we are paying for their health care anyway. So, we avoid subsidizing their insurance and instead pay for 100% of their care, typically in the highest cost setting.
What to do, what to do?
Illegal immigrants should not be here in the first place (except they put roofs on our houses, do our yard work, pick our food, pump our gas and clean our tables when we eat out). But they are here, so there is no simple solution is there? Ok, yeah we could in theory ship them all out, but I for one don’t want to pick strawberries.
If we change our laws to give 11 million people an eventual way to citizenship and we accept them and their children and we expect them to pay taxes and abide by our laws, how are they not to be eligible “for means-tested public benefits?” This may all be politically correct to those who are worried about re-election, but is it logical?
What is your point of view? Before you comment, think about the consequences of any “solution.”
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What part of illegal doesn’t the government understand? With all of the brainpower we have on the government payroll you would think that intelligent persons of any political persuasion would be able the come up with a reasonable method to deal with this problem. But alas, they obviously cannot. It seems to me that a simple plan to provide certain requirements for all these folks to follow could be developed that would provide say temporary visas thereby allowing anyone would cares to participate to start there and work their way to permanent residency. Those that chose not to come forward could then be deported. In this scenario, it would clearly be their choice and no one could complain that they were not given a fair and reasonable opportunity.
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Unless they hold jobs that locals can not or will not hold, send them back with an application for future legal entry.
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Isn’t that usually the case with the jobs?
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