CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING FOR LEGALS?
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
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America builds the La Raza “The Race” Mexican welfare state
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S LA RAZA WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS… Not one Legal voted for it!
Who's coming in and getting that instant customer service legal immigrants don't get? Well, people like Mirian Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with two kids and a fondness for Instagram luxury-life glamour shots who got her name in the news as "Lady Frijoles," the Honduran caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican food in Tijuana, and who told the press she was migrating to the states to get free medical care for her kids. She's since been arrested for assaulting a relative who had given her housing in Dallas.
MEXIFORNIA: Where La Raza Loots First and by Invitation of the Democrat Party!
Where To Go When Your Local Emergency Room Goes Bankrupt?"
During the past ten years 84 California hospitals have declared bankruptcy and closed their Emergency Rooms forever. Financially crippled by legislative and judicial mandates to treat illegal aliens have bankrupted hospitals! In 2010, in Los Angeles County alone, over 2 million illegal aliens recorded visits to county emergency rooms for both routine and emergency care. Per official figures, the cost is $1,000 dollars for every taxpayer in Los Angeles County.
January 2, 2020
In California, more free rides for illegal aliens
In 2020, Californians are about to feel the weight of the Democrat legislature's never-ending quest to find expensive new ways to micromanage every aspect of daily life, from increased rent control to ending "lunch shaming" to mandatory clean rooms for nursing mothers in the workplace. One of the more consequential laws, though, is especially geared to giving more California taxpayer money to illegal aliens.
Starting with the New Year, California is giving illegal aliens between the ages of 19 and 26 full access to Medi-Cal (its taxpayer-funded low-income health insurance program). Before 2020, illegal aliens under 19 were already receiving full benefits under the program (preventive and primary care), while young adults had only free emergency room care. The expanded program is set to cost taxpayers another $98 million in 2020.
The point of this Medi-Cal expansion is to provide health insurance parity between legal residents and illegal aliens living in California. Currently, a UCLA "health policy brief" states, "[S]ignificant disparities exist in access to health care between this group and their documented counterparts."
What the Democrats ignore is that one of these disparities is the whole "benefit-burden" thing. Those promoting illegal residency in the U.S. argue that illegal aliens pay taxes in the form of sales taxes and some property taxes. However, their illegal status means that the number paying income tax is questionable. Still, one 2017 study claimed that illegal aliens contributed an estimated $3 billion in state and local taxes to the California government.
Three billion sounds like a lot until you start looking at what those same illegal aliens cost California. The National Economics Editorial, an openly conservative economic analysis site, estimated in 2017 that illegal aliens already cost California taxpayers more than $30 billion every year, some of it in hard costs (education and health care) and some of it in less tangible lost money costs (remittances and crime).
When it comes to potential Medi-Cal costs for the states roughly 2.5 million illegal aliens, as the UCLA study says, "the majority of undocumented residents [sic] are low-income and nonelderly adults." And while the study notes that the young adult cohort is just 7% of the illegal alien population, the 26- to 44-year-old age group is 56% of that population. How long before the California Legislature decides to extend taxpayer health care benefits to that group, too?
As an aside, the Medi-Cal goodies basket isn't the only hit on California taxpayers this year when it comes to handouts to illegal aliens. Another law going into effect in 2020 (S.B. 354) gives even more education grants to illegal aliens who came to California as children. The DREAM Loan Program allows these kids to apply for grants if they are enrolled in a public university in pursuit of professional or graduate degrees.
Even as California entices illegal aliens with more taxpayer-funded benefits, it's losing its actual taxpayers:
According to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released on Monday, approximately 203,000 people moved out of California between 2018 and 2019 — with the bulk of them heading to other western states like Arizona, Texas and Colorado, where the cost of life is less pricey.
California once was America's "golden state." Now that it's a one-party Democrat state, that gold is rapidly turning to dross.
Nothing Says 'Happy New Year' Quite Like Giving Taxpayer-Funded
Health Care to Illegal Aliens
Nothing Says 'Happy New Year' Quite Like Giving Taxpayer-Funded
Health Care to Illegal Aliens
Now
that it is officially 2020, illegal alien adults in California are now eligible
for Medi-Cal, the state's health care system for low-income families. Starting January 1 – today – Medi-Cal is now extended to illegal
aliens ages 19 to 26. Before today those under the age of 19 were able to
receive Medi-Cal benefits, the Modesto Bee reported.
Before
the new legislation took effect, quite a few illegal aliens were receiving
limited Medi-Cal benefits (basically emergency services). Now they are able to
receive full-scope Medi-Cal benefits, which include preventative and primary
care on top of emergency services.
Those
who were in the system receiving limited scope benefits received letters saying
that, at the start of the new year, they would have full access to Medi-Cal
benefits. Lucky them, right?
Officials
in the state estimate that roughly 138,000 illegal alien adults will receive
full-scope benefits under the medical plan. What that actually translates to
can vary once coverage begins.
Before
the Medi-Cal expansion kicked in, once an illegal alien turned 19, they would
lose their benefits. Now that is extended until they are 26.
Legislators
in California allocated $98 million to provide health care to illegal aliens.
But that budget is only for
fiscal year 2020. It will be interesting to see how much money the Golden State
spends on this.
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THE REAL NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IN MEXIFORNIA IS 15 MILLION. NOW DO THE MATH!
According
to a 2019 health policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, 2.2
million people in the state are illegal aliens. And guess what? Those between
19 and 26 – the very age demographic these benefits are geared towards – make
up seven percent of the low-income, illegal alien population. Those between the
ages of 0 and 18 make up 12 percent of the population. That means that
California is going to spend millions providing
health care for 19 percent of the low-income, illegal alien population.
The
largest demographic of the state's illegal aliens – 56 percent – are those aged
26 to through 55. And you know it is only a matter of time before liberals in
the state decide those folks need taxpayer-funded health care too.
Congratulations,
California. You are the first state in the nation to extend even greater health
care benefits to illegal aliens (as if they should be given any to begin with).
And just more proof that your legislators are willing to put illegal aliens
before actual Americans.
It
really is sad to think about it. I have friends and family members who still
live in California and they suffer under the state's ridiculous laws. They are
expected to pay a crap ton of taxes, pay for their own health insurance and for
what? To be told that someone who should not even be in America can get
"free" health care (translation: they can essentially take money from
an American citizen to use for their own health care). And people like Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) cannot possibly understand
why people flock to our southern border en masse. It is because they know they
can get benefits like this.
Migrants Flooded the Border in 2019 — Census Bureau Claims the Inflow Dropped
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The Census Bureau claims that immigration dropped to just 595,000 people in the 12 months up to mid-2019, but the estimate is built on conflicting data, said Steven Camarota, a statistician at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“Net immigration is a very hard thing to measure because there is so much sampling variability” amid continued arrivals and departures, he said, adding that President Donald Trump’s pro-American policies may be prompting illegal migrants to evade surveys.
The bureau’s conflicting migrant population estimates are hidden under the bureau’s claim that the nation’s population rose by just 0.5 percent from July 2018 to July 2019, up to 328 million. The number is low partly because the bureau says the resident population of legal and illegal migrants rose by only 595,000 during the year up to July 2019.
But the Department of Homeland Security reported that 700,000 migrants crossed the southeastern border in the nine months before July 2019. The vast majority of those Central American migrants were allowed to stay pending their eventual asylum hearings.
That inflow of 700,000 migrants does not include the inflow of many illegal immigrants, the inflow of people who overstay their visas, nor the back-and-forth flow of roughly two million white-collar and blue-collar temporary workers, nor the legal immigrant inflow that has been about one million per year, even as 3.8 million new Americans were born during the same period.
Trump sharply reduced the flow of border migrants in the second half of 2019 and may have reduced the number of new overstays and new illegals. But Congress and business have blocked his 2018 efforts to shrink legal immigration.
Business groups and investors want the federal government to stimulate their economic growth and stock values by adding more immigrant workers and more consumers. Faster population growth means higher forecasts for economic consumption, sales, housing prices, and profits, thus boosting the value of stock prices on Wall Street.
So business groups are touting the bureau’s new low-ball estimate to demand even more migration. For example, the New York Times portrayed the bureau’s new claim of slow immigrant growth as bad for investors and the economy:
William H. Frey, a noted demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said in an interview Monday that the percentage increase was the lowest in a century. The growth rate during the most recent decade, about 6.7 percent, is expected to be the lowest since the government started taking population counts around 1790, he said.“This is a huge downturn in the nation’s growth,” Mr. Frey said. “This is even lower than the Great Depression.”Census watchers say that one of the biggest reasons for the stagnancy of the population is the decrease in the number of new immigrants. a trend that has continued through President Trump’s first three years in office.…“The immigration is really the [economic] safety valve for us going forward,” Mr. Frey said of population growth. “I think that immigration is an important part of what we have to think about going forward.”
In contrast, wage-earning Americans gain from a reduced migrant inflow. Any declines in worker population pressure employers to compete for new employees by offering higher wages and by training sidelined Americans. The slower population growth also allows young Americans to migrate to good jobs in other regions, and to buy homes in good locations at lower costs. Slower population growth also forces employers to buy labor-saving machines to allow employees to earn more by getting more work done each day.
Those changes also mean that slower population growth — via lower births or reduced immigration — also tends to transfer wealth from older investors back to young wage-earners. “Throughout American history, even during the Great Depression, business always says they don’t have enough workers,” said Camarota, adding:
That’s true today as well – [because] they always want to keep wages down [and] they have an [economic] interest in an ever-more densely populated America. Whether that is in the interest of the American people already here that is a different question.
However, the Associated Press pushed the same pro-migration, pro-growth theme. “Immigration is a wildcard in that it is something we can do something about,” Frey said. “Immigrants tend to be younger and have children, and they can make a population younger.”
“Immigration is no fix for an aging society,” said Camarota. “The immigrants grow old, and they don’t have that many children.” Currently, “everybody has got low fertility … and the fertility of young immigrants has declined more than the fertility of natives,” he said.
Some of the population data is easy to count accurately. For example, government agencies and hospitals reported just 3,791,712 births and 2,835,038 deaths in 2019, so boosting the native-born population by only 956,674.
But estimates for immigration are far more difficult, said Camarota.
For example, the two Census Bureau population-tracking estimates lag far behind the news.
In November, the bureau released its 2018 American Community Survey that excluded data from the second half of 2018 and all of 2019. So the 2018 report missed the inflow of roughly 800,000 migrants across the border in 2019 as it reported that 1.45 million new legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States during 2017.
The estimated 1.45 million immigrant inflow in 2017 is down from 1.75 million migrants in 2016 and the 1.62 million migrants in 2015, but it was also more than any year between 2002 to 2013.
Alongside the ACS, the bureau also releases the Current Population Survey (CPS). It “showed a significantly larger total number of [legal and illegal] immigrants in 2018 (45.8 million) vs. the total shown in the ACS (44.7 million),” said a November analysis by Camarota.
“A recent news story in the New York Times announced that growth in the immigrant population “Slows to a Trickle,” said an October report by CIS, which explained:
An op-ed in the Times a few weeks later went even further, mistakenly interpreting the earlier report as meaning that “immigration fell 70%” in the last year. The writers interpret this as the result of President Trump’s immigration policy changes.But it is not clear that any slowdown in immigration has actually taken place.
First, growth in the immigrant population does not measure new arrivals; immigrants come and go, so the net change in the total is not the same as the annual number of new arrivals.More important, though, is that the two Census Bureau surveys that measure the foreign-born have recently diverged in unexpected ways. The Times news story correctly reports the results of one of those data sources, the American Community Survey (ACS), showing a growth of 200,000 immigrants. But the other data source, the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC, or just CPS for short), shows an increase of 1.6 million in the immigrant population between 2017 and 2018 – quite the opposite of “slowing to a trickle”.
These annual differences produce larger differences over several years, said the CIS report:
In terms of growth, the ACS shows a 4.8 million increase from 2010 to 2018 in the immigrant population, while the [2018] CPS shows a 6.9 million increase over the same period. The just-released 2019 CPS shows an increase of 7.3 million since 2010 …From 2015 to 2019, growth in the immigrant population averaged one million in the CPS, while in the ACS it averaged 600,000 from 2015 to 2018 (Figure 1 and Table 1).
The swearing-in of new citizens also lags,he Census Bureau reports. The naturalization data show that a record number of immigrants became citizens — and possible voters — in 2019:
11 year high! @realDonaldTrump and his administration are pro-LEGAL immigration, while being tough on ILLEGAL immigration. twitter.com/USCIS/status/1 …
ONLY ABOUT ONE IN EIGHT BORDER JUMPERS ARE ACTUALLY CAUGHT. THE REST GO ON TO LOOT JOB, WELFARE, SOCIAL SERVICES AND THEN VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR MORE
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