THE LIFER-DEMS, Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Lofgren, and now OBAMA can’t sell us out fast enough! First BANKSTERS, now DRUGSTERS, next 38 AMNESTY FOR MILLION ILLEGALS.
Not a word comes out of their big mouths about unemployment and how many jobs are taken by ILLEGALS. In Mexican occupied LOS ANGELES 47% of those employed are ILLEGALS with stolen social security numbers. This County alone pays out $40 MILLION PER MONTH IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS and according to the Christian Science Monitor is the “Mexican gang capital of America”.
CA faces Court order to release nearly 50,000 prisoners. Half the prisoners in the largest and most expensive prison system in the country, CA’s are ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO.
There have been 2,000 (dated) Californians murdered by ILLEGAL MEXICANS that fled back over the border and DAILY there are 12 Americans murdered by ILLEGALS and 8 children molested, YET THE LIFER-DEMS ARE WORKING FOR AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS-FREE FLOW FOR MEXICANS, NO –E-VERIFY, NO ICE ENFORCEMENT, NO ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS.
You may have read that Feinstein’s paymasters (OPENSECRETS.org) WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA, are two of the biggest recipients of banksters’ welfare that FEINSTEIN, BOXER, PELOSI voted for. They are also making massive profits foreclosing on people they victimized with their mortgage scams. WELLS FARGO LONG HAS HAD THEIR MORTGAGE LICENSE REVOKED IN CALIFORNIA. IT STILL IS. Both banks are major LA RAZA DONORS, as it has been proven highly profitable to exploit ILLEGALS. Feinstein works tirelessly behind our backs for more illegals. States with the highest number of FORECLOSURES are also states with the highest number of ILLEGALS, and also pay out the largest amount of money supporting the MEXICAN WELFARE STATE, and has the largest degree of Mexican crime and Mexican gang related activity.
EXPANDING THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE:
FOREIGN BORN RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST GROWTH IN UNINSURED
So Far, Top Leaders Intend New Health Plan to Cover Illegal Aliens
By Roy Beck,
Oh, sure, they say it isn't true. But every indication says it is.
Consider this report on CBS News' website:
Asked by CBS News' Katie Couric in an exclusive interview whether illegal immigrants should be covered under a new health care plan, President Obama responded simply, "no."
Fantastic, I thought, the President recognizes that his health plan already is so costly (according to CBO estimates) that he is losing Members of his own Party and he realizes that there is no way that he can add on the cost of providing full health care to 11-19 million illegal aliens.
But immediately, the President thought of an exception:
The one exception that I think has to be discussed is how are we treating children,
Uh, oh. That would be a few million exceptions, although he tried to make it sound like it would be limited to vaccinations and communicable disease control.
But he had much worse to tell Couric:
First of all, I'd like to create a situation where we're dealing with illegal immigration, so that we don't have illegal immigrants. And we've got legal residents or citizens who are eligible for the plan. And I want a comprehensive immigration plan that creates a pathway to achieve that.
Hmmmm, so the reason the President can say that NO he wouldn't cover illegal aliens with his health plan is because he plans to change their name from "illegal aliens" to "U.S. citizens" and cover them!
I know that Orwellian doublespeak is so common we almost don't pay attention anymore, but please allow me to state plainly what the President said so obliquely:
The Obama Administration's hope is that nearly all current illegal aliens will be covered by the emerging new national health plan because they will be re-labeled as legal residents as soon as the amnesty is passed.
In case it isn't clear, let me also state that the health costs of the 11-19 million illegal aliens to the U.S. taxpayer will be just as high whether they are called illegal aliens or legal residents. I hope the CBO cost counters are paying attention.
NO MEANS YES ON BENEFITS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
The leaders of the U.S. House are playing the same game.
They allow language to be put into the health bill (as in many other benefits legislation) that says illegal aliens are not eligible.
But when an amendment is offered to require verification of legal residence before receiving the benefit, Speaker Pelosi's team demands Party-line votes to kill it.
Friends, don't let a single politician fool you by talking about supporting language that bars illegal aliens from something. Those words mean nothing unless there is a verification system. And thus far, illegal aliens will not have to prove they are legal residents to get the new federal health coverage.
FOREIGN BORN RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST GROWTH IN UNINSURED
NumbersUSA takes no position on the various proposals for changes in our national health system.
But I think it is important to note that we probably would not be having this particular debate if not for immigration.
That is because immigration (legal and illegal) has been the primary cause of the growth in the uninsured, which is one of the primary factors that moved health care to center stage.
Consider this from a study by the Center for Immigration Studies:
According to the Census Bureau, since 1989 the population without health insurance has grown by 14.62 million and stood at 47 million in 2006.
In the March 2007 CPS there were 9.21 million immigrants who arrived in 1990 or later who did not have health insurance. This is equal to 62.9 percent of the growth in the uninsured population.
Moreover, there were 1.12 million children born to post-1990 immigrants who also lacked insurance, meaning that new immigrants and their U.S.-born children accounted for 71 percent of the growth in the uninsured population.
Without legal and illegal immigration since 1989, the uninsured population would have grown only one-quarter as much as actually happened. The "uninsured crisis" is almost entirely a crisis created by our immigration system.
CURRENT IMMIGRATION POLICIES WILL ADD MORE AND MORE NET DRAINS ON THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Be clear that this is much more than just an illegal immigration problem.
Our immigration system is set up to bring in 1 million new legal immigrants each year who are disproportionately low-skilled, low educated and poor. The minute they arrive under a national health system, they will require additional health subsidies from the existing taxpayers.
If the government were really serious about reducing national medical costs, it would immediately pass the SAVE Act to slash illegal immigration and it would reduce legal immigration by 80%.
But who's serious?
The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Va., certainly is serious. Get a load of these excerpts from its editorial:
Let’s set aside the arguments pro and con for nationalized health care, and zero in on those uncovered millions whom some proponents want other American taxpayers to support with their dollars.
First, the stats: There are an estimated 46 million folks out there not paying for health insurance. Of that number some 7-10 million people, or 15-20 percent, are illegal aliens. . . .
. . . . . All of this is to point to a major flaw in health-care legislation before Congress. As of earlier last week, none of the major legislative proposals had strict requirements that any agencies check the immigration status of anyone seeking to receive health-care services.
Most Americans may have already figured out that it’ll be their tax dollars and health-care premiums that will go toward the cost of underwriting health-care costs for millions of illegal immigrants.
If health-care legislation passes without a tough mandate for screening illegal immigrants, then the first prescribed procedure should be brain scans for the congressmen who voted for it.
We have NumbersUSA members who are rooting for the health care action to come through reasonably like the proposals and we have members who absolutely hate all of the proposals. But I think close to 100% of our members would agree that the proposals should go no further until there are guarantees that national health care will not be provided to today's illegal aliens and will not be used as a carrot to entice millions more.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR),
in 2004 California's estimated cost of unreimbursed medical care was
$1.4 billion. Texas estimated its cost at $850 million annually, and
Arizona at $400 million.
Non-border states shoulder heavy burdens as well. Virginia's annual
cost of providing health care for undocumented workers is
approximately $100 million per year, FAIR reports, while Florida's
health care cost is about $300 million annually.
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Tell Congress No Health Insurance for Illegal Aliens
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message to all 535 members of the House and Senate for YOU.
Alert: Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health
insurance to the nation's estimated 12 million illegal aliens when
they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by
Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens
from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed
plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.
The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a
26-to-15 vote along straight party lines, and followed this action by
passing the 1,018-page bill early Friday morning by a 23-to-18
margin, with three Democrats voting against the plan.
The Democratic plan will embrace Obama's vision of bringing free
government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in
America a significant portion of whom are illegal aliens.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, costs under
the Obama plan being proposed by the House will saddle citizens with
$1.04 trillion in new federal outlays over the next decade.
Congressional Democrats and Obama have argued that their health plan
is necessary to contain rising health care costs.
But, last Thursday, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before
the Senate Budget Committee and warned lawmakers that the proposed
legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for
health care costs."
A key factor increasing costs is that Democratic plan provides for
blanket coverage to as much as 15 percent of the U.S. population not
currently insured, including illegals.
Democrats had insisted throughout the health-care reform debate that
illegals would be ineligible for the so-called public option plan
that is to be subsidized by taxpayers.
"We're not going to cover undocumented aliens, undocumented workers,"
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, told reporters in May. "That's too politically explosive."
Republicans, however, point out that the Democrats, by refusing to
accept the Heller amendment, would deny health agencies from
conducting simple database checks to verify citizenship. Many states
give illegals driver licenses, which will be sufficient to get free
health care under the plan.
Critics also contend that millions of illegals who already have
counterfeit Social Security cards or other fraudulent documents.
There is no enforcement mechanism in the legislation, experts say, to
prevent illegals who use fake IDs to obtain jobs from also obtaining
taxpayer-subsidized health insurance.
GOP representatives introduced the amendment to provide a way to weed
out non-citizens from the program.
A description of the amendment on Heller's Web site state it would
"better screen applicants for subsidized health care to ensure they
are actually citizens or otherwise entitled to it."
The Web post added, "The underlying bill is insufficient for the
purpose of preventing illegal aliens from accessing the bill's
proposed benefits, as it does not provide mechanisms allowing those
administering the program to ensure illegal aliens cannot access
taxpayer-funded subsidies and benefits."
The Heller amendment would have required that individuals applying
for the public health care option would be subject to two systems
used to verify immigration status already in use by the government:
The Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the
Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program.
The two systems cross-reference Social Security numbers and
employment information to establish whether an individual is a U.S.
citizen.
Critics: Free Health Care Means More Illegals
A recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that an overwhelming 80 percent
of Americans oppose covering illegals in any public health care bill.
Anti-immigration activists say the availability of low-cost benefits,
including health insurance and in-state tuition, will only lure more
immigrants to come to the United States.
Political analyst Dick Morris, in his recently released best-selling
book Catastrophe, warns that giving illegal free health care will
lead to a flood of new illegals who can take advantage of such a
benefit not offered in their home countries.
William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, agrees
with that sentiment, writing, "Each state and federal elected
official must know that illegal aliens should not be given licenses,
in-state tuition, mortgages, bank accounts, welfare, or any other
benefit short of emergency medical care and law enforcement
accommodations before they are deported."
But a small fraction of illegals end up deported, as many make
widespread use of fake IDs to easily gain access to government
benefits programs.
"Experts suggest that approximately 75 percent of working-age illegal
aliens use fraudulent Social Security cards to obtain employment,"
wrote Ronald W. Mortensen in a recent Center for Immigration Studies
research paper. Mortensen says one of the big misconceptions about
illegals is that they are undocumented.
James R. Edwards Jr., co-author of The Congressional Politics of
Immigration Reform, recently wrote on National Review Online that
"it's hard to envision how health reform can avoid tripping the
immigration booby trap."
Edwards says none of the legislation under consideration actually
requires any state, federal, or local agency to check the immigration
status of those who apply for the program.
The assumption is that companies have vetted their employees to
ensure they are eligibility for legal employment a difficult task for
employers given the active market in fraudulent documents. Thus
Edwards maintains "some of the money distributed … inevitably would
go to illegal aliens."
The estimates of illegal aliens in the United States without health
insurance vary. The most commonly cited statistic, attributed to the
Center for Immigration Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau, holds
that 15 percent to 22 percent of the nation's 46 million uninsured
are illegal aliens. That would be between 6.9 million and 10.1
million people. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama claimed
the nation United States has 12 million or more undocumented aliens.
John Sheils of the Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm owned
by UnitedHealth Group, recently told National Public Radio that about
6.1 million illegals about half of all illegals in the United States
lack documentation and therefore would not be legally eligible for
benefits under the current health care reforms.
Sheils says the other half of the nation's illegals 5 million to 6
million use false documents to obtain on-the-books employment. Many
of them are already insured under their employers' plans, he added.
"A lot of those people are getting employer health benefits as part
of their compensation," Sheils told NPR.
Certainly, some contend that undocumented workers who are gainfully
employed and receiving benefits such as health insurance are
contributing to society. But the fact remains that, once equipped
with a fake ID, a person in the United States illegally can obtain
both a job and the benefits that go with it.
Estimates of the cost of providing illegals with medical care vary.
Most uninsured illegals who need medical attention obtain it from
hospital emergency rooms. And several states are already straining
under the huge burden of paying for the health costs of illegal
aliens.
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR),
in 2004 California's estimated cost of unreimbursed medical care was
$1.4 billion. Texas estimated its cost at $850 million annually, and
Arizona at $400 million.
Non-border states shoulder heavy burdens as well. Virginia's annual
cost of providing health care for undocumented workers is
approximately $100 million per year, FAIR reports, while Florida's
health care cost is about $300 million annually.
One of the ironies of the proposed legislation is that it would fine
American citizens who opt not to purchase insurance coverage, but
would exempt illegals from such fines. This is presumably due to the
fact that they are not supposed to participate in the program anyway.
Even if no illegals were likely to benefit from health care reform,
Democrats have made it clear that amnesty is the next item on their
ambitious legislative agenda.
"I've got to do health care, I've got to do energy, and then I'm
looking very closely at doing immigration," Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, D-Nev., declared in June.
Reid explained the urgent need for amnesty in terms very similar to
those that Democrats have used to press for health care reform. "We
have an immigration system that's broken and needs repair," Reid said.
Immigration expert Edwards, for one, says health-care reform may
itself need serious medical attention before it is healthy enough
pass through Congress.
"The American people may soon realize how much health reform will
benefit immigrants and cost the native-born," he writes. "When that
happens, the volatile politics of immigration could derail universal
health care." (Newsmax)
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House Committee Rejects Closing Health Coverage Loophole = Illegals
House Committee Rejects Closing Health Coverage Loophole for Illegal Aliens
During consideration of the health care reform bill (H.R. 3200), the House Ways & Means Committee rejected an amendment that would have helped ensure illegal aliens would not receive taxpayer-funded health care benefits.
The amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV), would have required the government to verify that enrollees in the "public plan" and applicants for "affordability credits" are not illegal aliens. Eligibility verification would have been determined by using existing databases — the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system. (Congressional Quarterly, July 16, 2009; See also FAIR's Press Release, July 22, 2009). The Heller amendment would have addressed many of the same concerns that FAIR raised last week about whether illegal aliens would be able to receive taxpayer-funded health care benefits. (See FAIR's Legislative Update, July 20, 2009). Speaking in support of his amendment, Congressman Heller stated: "Requiring citizenship verification for enrollment would ensure only citizens and legal residents receive taxpayer funded healthcare." (Representative Heller's Press Release, July 16, 2009).
Opponents suggested that Heller's amendment was unnecessary because Section 246 of the bill states: "Nothing … shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States." (Legislative Text, Section 246). Critics of this language correctly point out that: (1) Section 246 only applies to affordability credits, which are the subsidies to help people pay for enrolling in a private health insurance plan, but will not prevent illegal aliens from enrolling in the government-run, taxpayer financed public option health plan; and (2) with respect to enrollment in private health insurance plans, Section 246 does not contain any meaningful verification procedures to ensure that illegal aliens do not receive subsidies paid for by American taxpayers. Accordingly, although the bill contains a provision limiting eligibility for the affordability credit to those legally present, it is limited in scope and virtually meaningless in effect. Unfortunately, despite the merits of the Heller Amendment, the House Ways and Means Committee rejected it on a party-line vote, with 15 Republicans supporting and 26 Democrats opposing the amendment. (For a list of the members opposing the Heller Amendment, see FAIR's Action Alert).
This may be exactly what the illegal alien lobby is looking for. In late June, the National Council of La Raza issued a statement demanding that Congress give illegal aliens taxpayer-funded health care under this bill. (See FAIR's Legislative Update, June 22, 2009). This week, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) also urged Speaker Pelosi to ensure that illegal aliens are covered by the health care reform bill. (Roll Call, July 24, 2009). According to a CHC member, the organization's leaders are not asking Speaker Pelosi to "specifically spell something out" in the bill, but instead to seek to ensure that the bill does not actually prohibit illegal aliens from receiving benefits. "We're pushing to include everyone in the health care bill. Everyone," the CHC member who asked not to be identified said. "Sometimes if you don't say something, something happens." (Id.).
The health care legislation is now expected to move to the House Energy and Commerce Committee before it moves to the full House of Representatives.
JUDICIAL WATCH
Health Benefits For Illegal Immigrants
Last Updated: Fri, 07/24/2009 - 11:42am
The powerful House committee that decides and controls the nation’s tax policy has essentially voted to give illegal immigrants health benefits under President Obama’s proposed multi trillion-dollar government plan.
On the heels of a national poll revealing that most Americans want illegal aliens excluded from national health coverage, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means defeated a measure designed to reduce taxpayers’ liability by ensuring that undocumented immigrants don’t qualify for the benefits.
In a straight party line vote of 23-18, the committee rejected a Nevada congressman’s amendment requiring the federal government to confirm health care eligibility with the same databases currently used to screen welfare recipients. The government assures that illegal aliens don’t receive taxpayer-financed welfare benefits by utilizing the Income and Eligibility Verification System and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system.
Neither will be utilized to screen illegal immigrants when America’s Affordable Health Care Choices Act kicks in, however. Caving into the influential open borders movement, House Democrats refused to take action to limit the health system overhaul’s already outrageous and still-growing tab.
Nevada Republican Dean Heller offered the amendment as a cost-cutting effort by requiring the use of existing citizenship verification tools for the new health plans. The government-run healthcare system will kill jobs, hurt families and result in massive federal spending, according to the lawmaker. But if it passes, at least the government should assure that only citizens and legal residents get the taxpayer-funded healthcare, he says.
U.S. taxpayers already spend billions of dollars annually to provide free medical care for illegal immigrants with states that border Mexico taking the biggest hit. The expense has become so unbearable in California—long an illegal alien sanctuary—that several municipalities eliminated the perk this year to save tens of millions of dollars in the midst of the state’s dire financial crisis.
It hasn’t stopped Mexico's government from operating programs in about a dozen American cities referring its nationals—living in the U.S. illegally—to publicly funded health centers where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.
While this may sound too outrageous to be true, it’s very real. The program is called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) in Spanish and its mission is to help illegal immigrants find U.S. hospitals, clinics and other government programs where they can get free services without being deported for violating federal immigration laws. Imagine the campaign Mexico will launch when Obama’s national health care bill passes.
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