IN THE FACES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, FROM THE FLOOR OF THE
SENATE – State of the Union Message, HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA LIED THAT
ILLEGALS WERE NOT INCLUDED IN OBAMACARE.
REP. JOE WILSON YELLED ACROSS THE FLOOR “You lie!”
OBAMA AND LA RAZA PELOSI HAD IT RIGGED SO THAT WHILE OBAMACARE
STATES IT PRECLUDES ILLEGALS, NO ONE MAY ASK ANYONE’S LEGAL STATUS… NO ONE LIES
MORE THAN THE TYPICAL LOOTING MEXICAN!
BILLIONS MORE WILL BE HANDED OUT TO MEXICANS BEYOND WHAT THEY’RE
ALREADY LOOTING US FOR! THANKS OBAMA!
"I think politicians will be under a lot of pressure not to
create these sorts of inequities," said Jennifer Ng'andu, a health policy
expert with the National Council of La Raza, one of the major Latino advocacy
groups. Her group supports the health care law and is urging every state to
accept the Medicaid expansion.
Immigration
fallout from saying no to 'Obamacare'
By
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Associated Press – 20 hrs ago
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Governors who reject health insurance for the poor under the federal
health care overhaul could wind up in a politically awkward position on
immigration: A quirk in the law means some U.S. citizens would be forced to go
without coverage, while legal immigrants residing in the same state could still
get it.
It's
an unintended consequence of how last year's Supreme Court decision changed the
Medicaid provisions of President Barack Obama's health care law. The overhaul
expanded the federal-state program for low-income and disabled people. The
Supreme Court made the Medicaid expansion optional for states, which
complicated things.
Arizona
officials called attention to the problem last week, when Republican Gov. Jan
Brewer opted to accept the Medicaid expansion.
Brewer
had been a leading opponent of the overhaul, and her decision got widespread
attention. State budget documents cited the immigration glitch as one of her
reasons.
"If
Arizona does not expand, for poor Arizonans below (the federal poverty line),
only legal immigrants, but not citizens, would be eligible for subsidies,"
the documents said.
That's
because the immigrants would be eligible for government-subsidized private
insurance, while low-income citizens would not. The Obama administration
confirmed Arizona's interpretation.
The
gist of what Brewer was saying is that "by rejecting the expansion, you
are essentially rewarding the immigrant population at the expense of full
citizens," said Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association
of Medicaid Directors, a nonpartisan group that represents the states in
Washington.
"The
political optics of that could be crushing," he added.
It
could take some explaining for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, steadfastly opposed to
what foes dismiss as "Obamacare," and for Florida Gov. Rick Scott,
who is reassessing his position. Both states have large numbers of uninsured
citizens and legal immigrants.
"I think politicians will be under a lot of pressure not to
create these sorts of inequities," said Jennifer Ng'andu, a health policy
expert with the National Council of La Raza, one of the major Latino advocacy
groups. Her group supports the health care law and is urging every state to
accept the Medicaid expansion.
The
quirk in the Affordable Care Act was not planned. It came about on the twisting
route that laws follow from Congress to the president's desk and to the courts.
To
be sure, no one is talking about the government buying health insurance for
illegal immigrants. That's not allowed under Medicaid or Obama's law. Instead,
the issue here is between U.S. citizens and legal immigrants, those who are
lawfully present in the country.
Here's
the convoluted background:
Starting
Jan. 1, 2014, the health care law will offer health insurance to millions of
people now uninsured. Middle-class uninsured people will be able to get
taxpayer-subsidized private policies through new markets called exchanges.
Low-income uninsured people will be steered to Medicaid, a government program
jointly funded by Washington and the states.
Under
previous laws, legal immigrants have to wait five years to qualify for
Medicaid. Ng'andu said Hispanic advocacy groups wanted to lift that restriction
during the 2009 congressional health care debate, but couldn't get political
support. The Medicaid waiting period remained in place, but a compromise was
reached that would allow low-income legal immigrants to get subsidized private
coverage in the new health insurance exchanges.
The
health care law expanded Medicaid to cover millions of low-income adults who
are ineligible under current rules. As written, the law assumed that every
state would accept the Medicaid expansion, with Washington paying for most of
it. So the law stipulated that people below the federal poverty line — $11, 170
for a single person, $23,050 for a family of four— could not get subsidies for
private coverage in the exchanges. Medicaid was to be their only option.
Legal
immigrants here for less than five years remained an exception.
Along
came the Supreme Court. It upheld Obama's law, but ruled that states were free
to accept or reject the Medicaid expansion. The court did not touch the issue
of coverage for legal immigrants in the health insurance exchanges. That provision
remained in place.
And
that's how the immigration glitch came to be. Poor people in a state that turns
down Obama's Medicaid expansion can only get government subsidized coverage if
they are legal immigrants. U.S. citizens are out of luck.
So
far 11 states have said they're not interested in the Medicaid expansion.
Meanwhile, while 17 states and Washington, DC, say they are taking it. The rest
are weighing their options. The immigration glitch is now one of those
considerations.
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ON
THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE, IN THE FACE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND 40 MILLION
ILLEGALS WHOSE VOTES HE WAS COURTING, OBAMA LIED THAT OBAMACARE DID NOT INCLUDE
ILLEGALS…. HE AND LA RAZA PELOSI RIGGED IT TO IT WOULD AND THEY COULD STILL
DENY IT!
OBAMA
– THE MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY!
EXPANDING
THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
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These Obamacare
disbursements seem to contradict a claim
President Obama famously made in a nationally televised speech to a
joint session of Congress on Sept. 9, 2009.
“The reforms
I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally,” Obama said
then.
When Obama said
these words, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) shouted out from the House
floor: "You lie!" After the speech, Wilson called the White
House and apologized for his remark and issued a statement saying he was sorry
for it and President Obama accepted his apology. However, five days
later, led by then-Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
(D.-Md.), the House voted 240-179 to rebuke Wilson for his outburst
on the House floor.
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Joe Wilson Was Right About ObamaCare for Illegal Immigrants
On September 9, 2009, President Obama addressed
Congress as part of his push for a health care “reform” law. One of the things
the President said that night was that “the reforms I am proposing would not
apply to those here illegally.” In response, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), shouted
out “You lie!” Wilson later apologized for the outburst, and the House voted to
rebuke him.
However, now that HHS has begun disbursing grants
for community health centers for migrant workers, it’s clear to see that
President Obama’s promise isn’t bearing up. Instead, as statements from HHS (reported by CNS news) make clear, these clinics “won’t ask
about or collect data on citizenship or other matters not related to the
treatment needs of the patients seeking health services at the center.” These
clinics are targeted at a migrant workforce with a significant number of
illegal aliens.
Congress should think hard about what the
President’s promises are worth the next time an immigration bill comes up for
debate, because as the administration’s record on “prosecutorial discretion”
has made clear, what the President says and what federal agencies do are not
always the same.
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JUDICIAL WATCH.org
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With
trillion dollar bailouts, government-run healthcare, banks and car companies,
ACORN corruption, attacks on conservative media, illegal alien amnesty,
unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign
donors—this is the Obama legacy—and we haven't even gotten through the first
year of his presidency!
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CNN
INTERVIEW OF LYING LA RAZA PELOSI ON HEALTHCARE TO ILLEGALS
“If you’re in this country illegally, should
you be able to get health care?” CNN’s John King asked Mrs. Pelosi.
“No, illegal immigrants are not covered by this plan,” she replied.
Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks are downright deceptive, according to Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who points out that the proposed health care legislation “ contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded benefits .”
These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.
“No, illegal immigrants are not covered by this plan,” she replied.
Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks are downright deceptive, according to Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who points out that the proposed health care legislation “ contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded benefits .”
These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.
WHY MEXICO INVADED CALIFORNIA: THE LOOTING OF AN AMERICAN STATE BY INVITATION of the DEMOCRAT PARTY
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FROM JUDICIAL WATCH.org
Mexico Promotes Free U.S. Healthcare
For Illegal Immigrants
Time to wake up
people! With unemployment at 12% and the state going broke, our tax dollars are
going to pay for healthcare for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. To the
tune of over a billion dollars a year!
Mexico's government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers 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.
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.
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Indiana are among the cities where Mexican consulates operate the health referral system which annually costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and a whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 Mexicans in the area have benefited from his government's health referral program, which he says actually saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care rather than waiting for more expensive emergency treatment.
The Southern California operation promises to assess "consulate clients" for eligibility to government-funded health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage. Its goal is to improve access to health services for immigrants of Mexican origin by formalizing a health education, medical home referral and insurance enrollment program.
In Chicago, the Mexican consul's Spanish-language web site heavily promotes the Illinois Department of Health's low-cost prescription medicine program for illegal aliens and various free medical services throughout the state. It encourages all Mexicans in the area to pursue the valuable U.S. government-financed services for their entire family.
The Indiana-based program boasts that it serves thousands of "Mexican nationals" living in that state as well as Ohio, Kentucky and southern Illinois. Mexican officials claim that its highly successful pro-health program sends out a clear message to other Mexican consulates throughout the country and the world.
Although these programs facilitate people to remain in the country illegally, Mexico is working hard to expand them to all 47 U.S. consulates to better serve its nationals. In the meantime, U.S. taxpayers will keep picking up the exorbitant tab of medically treating the millions who live in the country illegally.
Mexico's government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers 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.
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.
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Indiana are among the cities where Mexican consulates operate the health referral system which annually costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and a whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 Mexicans in the area have benefited from his government's health referral program, which he says actually saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care rather than waiting for more expensive emergency treatment.
The Southern California operation promises to assess "consulate clients" for eligibility to government-funded health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage. Its goal is to improve access to health services for immigrants of Mexican origin by formalizing a health education, medical home referral and insurance enrollment program.
In Chicago, the Mexican consul's Spanish-language web site heavily promotes the Illinois Department of Health's low-cost prescription medicine program for illegal aliens and various free medical services throughout the state. It encourages all Mexicans in the area to pursue the valuable U.S. government-financed services for their entire family.
The Indiana-based program boasts that it serves thousands of "Mexican nationals" living in that state as well as Ohio, Kentucky and southern Illinois. Mexican officials claim that its highly successful pro-health program sends out a clear message to other Mexican consulates throughout the country and the world.
Although these programs facilitate people to remain in the country illegally, Mexico is working hard to expand them to all 47 U.S. consulates to better serve its nationals. In the meantime, U.S. taxpayers will keep picking up the exorbitant tab of medically treating the millions who live in the country illegally.
L.A.County's $48 Million Monthly Anchor Baby
Tab
Last
Updated: Wed, 08/12/2009 - 11:24am
Taxpayers
in the nation’s most populous county dished out nearly $50 million in a single
month to cover only the welfare costs of illegal immigrants, representing a
whopping $10 million increase over the same one-month period two years
ago.
In
June 2009 alone Los Angeles County spent $48 million ($26 million in food
stamps and $22 million in welfare) to provide just two of numerous free public
services to the children of illegal aliens, which will translate into an annual
tab of nearly $600 million for the cash-strapped county.
The
figure doesn’t even include the exorbitant cost of educating, medically
treating or incarcerating illegal aliens in the sprawling county of about 10
million residents. Los Angeles County annually spends more than $1 billion for
those combined services, including $400 million for healthcare and $350 million
for public safety.
The
recent single-month welfare figure was obtained from the county’s Department of
Social Services and made public by a county supervisor (Michael Antonovich) who
assures illegal immigration continues to have a “catastrophic
impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.” The veteran lawmaker points out that 24% of the county’s
total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the
children of illegal aliens—known as anchor babies—born in the United States.
A
former fifth-grade history teacher who has served on the county’s board for
nearly three decades, Antonovich has repeatedly come under fire for publicizing
statistics that confirm the devastation illegal immigration has had on the
region. Antonovich represents a portion of the county that is roughly twice the
size of Rhode Island and has about 2 million residents.
Numerous other reports have
documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a national level. Just
last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of illegal
immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346 billion annual cost to
educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens throughout the
U.S.
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WELFARE COSTS FOR
CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IN L.A. COUNTY OVER $48 MILLION IN JUNE
August 11, 2009—Figures from the
Department of Public Social Services show that children of illegal aliens in
Los Angeles County collected nearly $22 million in welfare and over $26 million
in food stamps in June, announced Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D.
Antonovich. Projected over a 12 month period – this would exceed $575
million dollars.
Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers exceeds over $1 billion dollars, which includes $350 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps allocations. Twenty-four percent of the County’s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States.
“Illegal immigration continues to have a catastrophic impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” said Antonovich. “The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education.”
Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers exceeds over $1 billion dollars, which includes $350 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps allocations. Twenty-four percent of the County’s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States.
“Illegal immigration continues to have a catastrophic impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” said Antonovich. “The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education.”
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ADD TO THESE FIGURES THE STAGGERING COST OF THE MEXICAN
CRIME TIDAL WAVE! ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN
GANGS!
CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM. HALF
THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS.
OF THE TOP 200 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS IN LOS ANGELES, 183 ARE
MEXICANS, AND MOST OF THE REST ARE RUSSIANS.
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WILL MEXICO
BANKRUPT AMERICA LIKE IT HAS MEXIFORNIA?
BOOK: Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN
AMERICAN DREAM (illegals call it their DREAM ACT)
Calif.
Hospitals Spend $1.25 Bil On Illegal Immigrants
July 05, 2011
While
the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the
U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal
immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal
government.The group that represents most of the nation’s hospitals and medical
providers recently urged President Obama to work with Congress to reimburse
them for the monstrous cost of treating illegal immigrants. Federal law
requires facilities to “treat and stabilize individuals” regardless of their
immigration status, but federal support for the services remains “virtually
nonexistent,”
according to a letter submitted by the American Hospital Association to the
president.This week officials in California, the state with the largest
concentration of illegal immigrants, joined the call for federal compensation
after revealing that hospitals there spend about $1.25 billion annually to care for illegal
aliens. The figure skyrocketed from $1.05 billion in 2007, according to
California Hospital Association figures quoted in a local news report.The
problem will only get worst, according to officials, who say the $1.25 billion
for 2010 could actually be higher. They complain that federal law forces them
to treat patients in emergency rooms regardless of immigration status yet they
get stuck with the financial burden. This has forced many hospitals to curtail
services or close beds and could ultimately compromise healthcare. Nationwide,
U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars annually to provide free
medical care for illegal immigrants with states that border Mexico taking the
biggest hit. Adding to the problem is the fact that Mexico, the country that
provides the largest amount of illegal immigrants in the U.S., has long
promoted America’s generous public health centers. It even operates a Spanish-language
program
(Ventanillas de Salud, Health Windows) in about a dozen U.S. cities that refers
its nationals—living in the country illegally—to publicly funded health centers
where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration
authorities.
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Lloyd Billingsley
The DREAM and the Nightmare
In California, students are better off being illegal immigrants than legal.
30 March 2012
The DREAM and the Nightmare
In California, students are better off being illegal immigrants than legal.
30 March 2012
Last
year, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California DREAM Act, which makes
students in the country illegally eligible for grants and waivers to attend one
of the state’s public colleges or universities. The students must have attended
school in the state for three years, “affirm that they are in the process of
applying to legalize their immigration status,” and show both financial need
and academic achievement. Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, the Los Angeles Democrat who
authored the DREAM Act, hails the legislation as a victory for those “in the
country through no fault of their own.” Opponents such as Republican
assemblyman Tim Donnelly—a first-term legislator not given to
understatement—called Cedillo’s legislation the “California Nightmare Act,” said it is “morally wrong,” and would create “a new entitlement that is going to cause tens of thousands of people
to come here illegally from all over the world.”
Poster
children for the DREAM Act abound. Mandeep Chahal, for example, was six years
old when her parents brought her to the United States from India. Chahal wants
to be a doctor; her fellow students at Los Altos High School near Palo Alto
voted her the person “Most Likely to Save the World.” That’s a tall order, but
to deny such a person the opportunity seems unreasonable. “Many parents of
these children pay taxes for many services they cannot get,” argues Cedillo.
Cedillo’s
point implies that illegal immigrants are the only ones subject to this
dynamic. But consider: my taxes subsidize the Medi-Cal system, which provides
medical care for low-income state residents, but I couldn’t “get” health care
that way, even in the year my income was so low that my daughter qualified for
a Pell Grant. Likewise, the taxes of, say, a California welder help pay for
top-drawer pensions and benefits for state
government employees, but he can’t enjoy those benefits himself. Neither is he
entitled to get a government job merely because his taxes help pay the salaries
and benefits of workers at the Department of Motor Vehicles, CalTrans, the
California Air Resources Board, the Franchise Tax Board, California’s
Department of Education, the State Board of Equalization, the Coastal
Commission, and on and on.
The
taxes of a fast-food worker help subsidize the University of California at
Berkeley, but nothing guarantees that taxpayer admission to Berkeley. The
state’s Master
Plan for
Higher Education does guarantee everyone a place in the system, whether at a
community college, a state university, or within the UC system. But no one is
promised a place at the top, and the system grants no special favors to legal
immigrants. When I came to the United States, legally, in 1977, I had been
studying at the University of Windsor, a four-year school in my hometown of
Windsor, Ontario. I wanted to continue my studies at San Diego State University
but was not allowed to transfer because I hadn’t attended high school in
California. SDSU administrators suggested I try the state’s community college
system, which seemed a step down from what I had in mind. But eventually, I put
two children through San Diego State. They’re now working in productive
careers, a tax burden to no one. No legislation rewards parents for that
achievement or for coming to the United States with proper documents.
Cedillo’s law, by contrast,
rewards those who came to California illegally. Will the law, therefore,
encourage more people to enter the state illegally, as Donnelly and other
critics assert?
(IN FACT THERE ARE MORE THAN
11 MILLION ILLEGALS IN SOUTHERN CA ALONE! NOW NEARLY 40% OF CA ARE ILLEGALS,
33% OF NEVADA AND 24% OF COLORADO. MOST
NON LA RAZA PROPAGANDA SOURCES BUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AT 40 MILLION
AND BREEDING LIKE BUNNIES!)
Recall
how Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986, which gave amnesty to several million undocumented
immigrants. A quarter of a century later, the number of illegal immigrants
stands at 11.5 million. It seems clear
that the 1986 act didn’t discourage foreign nationals from entering the United
States without signing the guest book. One of those who obtained
citizenship under the Act was Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, who made his way
through UC Berkeley and Harvard Medical School and is now associate professor
of neurosurgery and oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in
Baltimore. Quinones-Hinojosa and others who have spoken out in support of the
DREAM Act often give the impression that their cases are typical of illegal
aliens. Not exactly. Amnesty measures, however well-intentioned, usually bring
unintended consequences.
THE REALITY OF LA RAZA’S LOOTING OF CA:
Consider Ignacio Mesa Viera,
subject of a recent front-page story in the Sacramento
Bee. He came to the United States illegally in 1979 to work and help his
family, as he explained, but was convicted on a drug offense in 1995. He was
deported but returned to the United States, whereupon he was busted for another
drug offense in 2008. Before his recent deportation, the U.S. government was
paying for Viera’s kidney dialysis, a treatment that can cost more than $60,000
a year. “I imagine that the reason they don’t want to let me stay in this
country,” Viera told the Bee, “is they don’t want to be paying for
this.”
Cedillo
and his colleagues need to know that everybody’s taxes pay for services they
and their children “cannot get”—including kidney dialysis and other expensive
medical treatments courtesy of the federal government. Meantime, as a University of California report noted last year, tens of
thousands of middle-class, taxpaying legal residents are being squeezed out of
an affordable college education even as the legislature contrives to provide
scholarships for the children of illegal aliens. The lawmakers’ solution is to create yet another
entitlement in the form of a new $1 billion scholarship program for students
whose families earn less than $150,000 a year. Such is life in the Golden
State, even with a DREAM Act in place.
Lloyd
Billingsley is the author of Hollywood
Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s and the former editorial
director of the Pacific Research Institute.
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OBAMA
HAS PROMISED HIS LA RAZA “THE RACE” PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS AMNESTY, NO
E-VERIFY, NO I.D. FOR REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING… OR AT LEAST CONTINUED
NON-ENFORCEMENT!
OBAMA
HANDS MASSIVE WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, ALONG WITH OUR JOBS TO BUY THE ILLEGALS'
ILLEGAL VOTES!
Most Illegal
Immigrant Families Collect Welfare
April 05, 2011
Surprise,
surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S. families headed by illegal
immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their
American-born anchor babies. Even before the recession, immigrant households
with children used welfare programs at consistently higher rates than natives,
according to the extensive census data collected and analyzed by a nonpartisan Washington
D.C. group dedicated to researching legal and illegal immigration in the U.S.
The results, published this month in a lengthy report, are hardly surprising. Basically, the majority of
households across the country benefitting from publicly-funded welfare programs
are headed by immigrants, both legal and illegal. States where immigrant
households with children have the highest welfare use rates are Arizona (62%),
Texas, California and New York with 61% each and Pennsylvania(59%).The study
focused on eight major welfare programs that cost the government $517 billion
the year they were examined. They include Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
for the disabled, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), a nutritional
program known as Women, Infants and Children (WIC), food stamps, free/reduced
school lunch, public housing and health insurance for the poor (Medicaid).Food
assistance and Medicaid are the programs most commonly used by illegal
immigrants, mainly on behalf of their American-born children who get automatic
citizenship. On the other hand, legal immigrant households take advantage of
every available welfare program, according to the study, which attributes it to
low education level and resulting low income. The highest rate of welfare
recipients come from the Dominican Republic (82 %), Mexico and Guatemala (75%)
and Ecuador (70%), according to the report, which says welfare use tends to be
high for both new arrivals and established residents.
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