TIM RYAN - I'M ALL FOR JOE BIDEN'S INVASION OF CHEAP LABOR TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND TRANSFER THE REAL COST OF THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE TO MIDDLE AMERICA - ISN'T THAT WHAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS?

 THE DEMOCRAT PARTY   -  IT'S ALL ABOUT EXPANDING MEXICO'S WELFARE STATE ANY DIRECTION THEY CAN. WE END UP PAYING FOR ALL THAT CHEAP LABOR'S STAGGERING COST!

As Breitbart News reported, forcing taxpayers to provide healthcare to all illegal aliens would cost citizens anywhere between $23 billion to $66 billion every single year — potentially a $660 billion bill for taxpayers every decade, without adjusting for inflation and the increasing number of illegal aliens.

Ohio Senate Race: Democrat Tim Ryan Touts BBB Amnesty

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NEIL MUNRO

31 Jan 20220

8:31

Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan is trying to win skeptical Democrats in Ohio’s Senate primary race by supporting a pro-migration bill that would divert even more investment and jobs from the Buckeye state.

The Washington Post reported January 30:

With less than 10 months to go before the general election, Ryan has already visited 72 of the state’s 88 counties in a full-press effort to try to persuade the hinterlands, a handful at a time, that Democrats like him are human beings who breathe the same air. He is “1,000 percent for” President Biden’s Build Back Better [BBB] bill …

The three immigration sections of the Ryan-backed BBB would shrink the economic incentives for coastal investors to create good jobs in Ohio.

Investors prefer to create jobs in convenient locations where they understand the local politics. In a normal economy, this preference ensures that coastal investors will create worksites in the coastal states until they run out of cheap coastal workers and cheap coastal land.

But since Congress and President George H. W. Bush doubled immigration numbers in 1990, coastal investors have faced little pressure to invest in the heartland. Since 1990, the government has extracted a continuous supply of lower-wage, subservient, non-union, and compliant migrants from poor countries and delivered them to the investors’ coastal worksites.

This federal inflation of the labor supply has diverted wealth to the coasts. For example, Wall Street’s Dow Jones index climbed by 60 percent from 2005 to 2017. But Ohio’s median household income stayed flat during the same period — before it began climbing quickly under President Donald Trump’s lower-migration policies in 2018 and 2019.

Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 13th congressional district Tim Ryan speaks to the press in the Spin Room after the first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season in Miami, Florida, June 26, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

The decades-long shortage of high-tech investment in Ohio helps to explain why Ohio voters and politicians were so delighted with the $20 billion investment announced by chip-maker Intel in January. The Columbus Dispatch reported the local reaction to the news, 51 years after Intel began building chips in California:

Though Ohio has a long history as an industrial power, the two chip plants will be the first to be built in Ohio [or] the Midwest.

“This is a brand new industry for us in Ohio,” Lt. Gov. Jon Husted told the Dispatch. “Semiconductors aren’t made here.”

Biden’s BBB includes three big migration measures that would dramatically shift more wealth away from heartland Americans towards coastal investors and their new migrants.

It would amnesty millions of illegal migrants, most of whom are working in jobs created in the coastal states where they live.

It would accelerate the inflow of immigrants’ relatives, dubbed “chain migrants.” The huge majority of arrivals are expected to join their relatives who are now living in coastal states such as California, New York, and Texas.

The bill would also supercharge the inflow of cheap and compliant foreign graduates into the high-tech manufacturing and white-collar jobs needed by the rising children of blue-collar and white-collar Americans. For example, many Intel jobs are already filled by foreign graduates who are imported via the 1990 legislation, and the BBB bill would allow Intel to import many more foreign workers for the new jobs in Ohio.

The wealth-shifting impact of national migration is spotlighted by Biden’s delivery of 77,000 Afghan migrants in 2021. Most are seeking to settle alongside other Afghans in the coastal states of California and Virginia, so delivering many more workers, consumers, and renters to investors in those states.

Meanwhile, just east of Ohio, in Johnstown, Pa., local business groups planned to recruit some of the poor Afghans to pump up local consumer sales, raise rents, and fill jobs that would otherwise have to be filled by local Americans at family-level wages.

The plan failed because of strong local opposition. “You look around and there are a lot of help-wanted signs out but these jobs aren’t family-sustaining,” said Jackie Kulback, Cambria County Republican committee chairwoman. She told a Fox TV station that the local “schools are struggling with the people they have now, our hospitals are overwhelmed, our social services that these people are requiring are county just can’t handle more.”

From left, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., and Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., take photos with their phones as former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lies in state at the US Capitol on January 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. (BILL CLARK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The migration angle in Ryan’s support for the BBB bill was ignored by the reporter at Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post.

Many establishment journalists are under intense woke and corporate pressure to ignore the pocketbook and macro-economic impacts of migration, and to cover only the family drama angles to the federal government’s economic policy of extraction migration.

Trump won strong support in Ohio for his 2016 promise to curb migration. But he only partly filled those promises by 2019 and 2020. His failure to fully deliver on his immigration promises helped him lose Pennsylvania in 2020.

In 2022, Ryan is not offering a fix to the federal labor-supply policies that have drained wealth from Ohio since 1990. Instead, he is trying to win Democratic primary voters by offering federal spending as a consolation prize for all the lost wealth:

Ryan’s bet — and the national Democratic dream — is that a few issues still just might matter more than his party label. He lists three whenever he speaks, after talking up his small-town upbringing and all of his union relatives who once worked at steel plants or auto suppliers: rebuilding the country with major public works spending, new government investing in manufacturing industries and beating China.

“They have a 10-year plan, a 50-year plan, a 100-year plan,” he said of the Asian superpower. “We are living in a 24-hour news cycle talking about really dumb stuff, like Big Bird and Dr. Seuss.”

The pitch has made Ryan one of the most consequential Democratic candidates of the 2022 cycle, a test case on whether his party has any hope of reclaiming its erstwhile [w]hite working-class voting base, as former president Donald Trump, who sped their flight, waits in the wings. The struggle is, by any measure, uphill — Democrats have just one statewide win in the former swing state since 2012 — and Republicans remain favored to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R) in November.

In Ryan wins, he’ll likely face a GOP candidate who opposes the migration changes in the BBB bill.

For example, Ohio Republican primary candidate J.D. Vance told Breitbart News in March 2021 that Biden’s current illegal immigration surge “is because our country is controlled by corporate donors of both parties, but especially right now on the left.”

D.C. politicians “have people in their ears who have a lot of money and who want cheap labor and who want a lot of illegal immigration,” Vance said of the Republicans who support amnesty for illegal migrants.

For the moment, the BBB bill supported by Ryan is stalled in the evenly-divided Senate, amid opposition from the GOP caucus plus Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat from next-door West Virginia.

But the BBB bill is still being pushed by nearly all Democratic Senators — plus their growing base of corporate donors.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his investor allies at FWD.us are leading the 2022 push for more migration and amnesty. The investor group is not just looking for extra workers — it wants more migrants because they also serve as consumers and renters.

The breadth of investors who founded and funded FWD.us was hidden from casual visitors to the group’s website sometime in the last few months. But copies exist at the other sites. The 2013 founders included Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins, Matt Cohler at Benchmark, and Breyer Capital CEO Jim Breyer.

A wide variety of little-publicized polls show deep and broad opposition to labor migration. The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.

 

As Breitbart News reported, forcing taxpayers to provide healthcare to all illegal aliens would cost citizens anywhere between $23 billion to $66 billion every single year — potentially a $660 billion bill for taxpayers every decade, without adjusting for inflation and the increasing number of illegal aliens.

State and Local Politicians Move to Grant Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens

By Matthew Tragesser

ImmigrationReform.com

https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/08/illegal-alien-benefits-states-immigrationreform-com/

 

Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant Welfare

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/04/study-more-than-7-in-10-california-immigrant-households-are-on-welfare/

 

More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.

The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.

Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California.

All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.

In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born households use welfare.

President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.

The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.

As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

 

Georgia Republicans Draft Legal Giveaways to Illegals

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NEIL MUNRO

30 Jan 20220

10:39

Republican legislators in Georgia are trying to dodge debate over the rising cheap-labor migration into their state — but they also are drafting bills that would steer more illegal migrants into the jobs and homes needed by young Georgians.

“Those of us who are in the [Georgia] Capitol for the last 18 years know that the big business lobby run by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce does not want any discussion about the hidden costs of black-market labor,” said D.A. King, founder of the Dustin Inman Society, which opposes illegal migration.

“Most legislators under Georgia’s gold-domed capitol would rather have a root canal while sitting in a chair of broken glass than discuss black-market labor and illegal migration in Georgia,” King told Breitbart News.

The state is home to at least 400,000 illegal migrants and roughly 800,000 legal migrants, according to a 2020 estimate by a pro-migration group. Companies also ship in foreign workers, often illegally, to take low-wage, shorter-term jobs that would otherwise provide family wages to Georgians. In 2020, for example, then-GOP Rep. Doug Collins stopped an illegal scheme to import Korean construction workers for a battery factory in Jackson County.

The stealthy push for more migration into Georgia is just one of many state-level campaign efforts to get around the GOP’s voter-enforced opposition to President Joe Biden’s planned amnesties and migration expansions. The state campaigns hope to extract more migrant workers, consumers, and renters from poor countries for use in the U.S. economy. In Illinois, for example, the Chicago Sun-Times reported January 26 about plans to expand cheap healthcare aid to migrants:

[Angelica] Garcia, 51, of West Chicago, is among those pushing for Illinois to expand a health care program to more [illegal] immigrants like herself. Garcia, who volunteers at the cultural hub Casa Michoacan in suburban West Chicago, was among a group of … advocates Wednesday who detailed the economic and health care reforms they support.

Last year, Illinois expanded a Medicaid-like program that provides health insurance coverage to [illegal] immigrants who are 55 and older, the Associated Press reported. Garcia said she doesn’t qualify for that program because of her age. She and others want the program to expand to include other [illegal] immigrants like herself.

In New York City, advocates have passed a law allowing illegals to vote. In California, advocates have passed laws that provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegals. In Virginia, advocates want to start putting illegals on public healthcare programs  — but that will likely be blocked by elected Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. In Texas, the GOP-led government is working to block migrants that are being welcomed by Biden’s federal agencies.

In Georgia, the HB 999 bill is a school-choice bill that would quietly provide state K-12 education funds to illegal migrants.

Advocates are rushing to pass the bill during the state’s legislature 40-day session, which ends April 4.

The HB 999 bill would send $6,000 per child into a “consumer-directed account” for private-school tuition, allowing many parents to keep their kids out of the federal K-12 pro-diversity schools. But the bill has no requirement excluding illegal immigrants. The bill is sponsored by GOP Reps. Wes Cantrell (Ga-22), Kasey Carpenter (Ga-4), Heath Clark (Ga-147), and several Democratic legislators, according to an article on King’s website, immigrationpoliticsga.com.

The bill was pushed January 28 by radio host Eric Erickson as a GOP outreach to non-white voters:

Jeb Bush’s education reforms … included robust school reforms and school choice initiatives … and [so] black families and Hispanic families shifted towards the Republican Party in the polling. So pretty big deal, and it’s insane for the GOP nationwide not to realize [if] you give parents the choice — particularly now in the the coronavirus situation —  … you give parents essentially an entitlement and then dare the Democrats to take it back. The latest state to advance this is the state of Georgia. House Bill 999 — Wes Cantrell, state representative — put has put together, get this, pay attention to this, a bipartisan, multiracial coalition. Black and white, male and female, Democratic Republican.

Erickson — who opposed Donald Trump in 2016 — invited King to comment on the bill. King said:

A lot of people will support “school choice.” Most people here in Georgia are not going to support the contents of the bill that allow direct payments from the state to accounts set up for illegal alien students, to be distributed by illegal alien parents, who are also given an opportunity to have oversight into compliance with this law. So it needs a lot of tweaks.

“I suspect through the committee process, they will work those particular issues out,” Erickson replied. “I’m fairly certain the Republicans aren’t going to fund illegal aliens going into private school, but it’s one of those issues they’re gonna have to process.”

Many polls show that many blacks, legal immigrants, and Latinos oppose illegal labor migration.

The second bill, HB 120, would allow roughly 20,000 illegal-migrant youths and adults to get in-state tuition rates — or a $12,000 break — when attending college, places needed by young Georgians. The bill is also backed by Cantrell.

The HB 120 bill is backed by the state’s Chamber of Commerce and by FWD.us, the D.C.-based pro-amnesty advocacy group formed by wealthy coastal investors. The FWD.us investors stand to gain from any inflow of foreign consumers, renters, and workers — and so FWD.us urges its allies to avoid any mention of migration’s pocketbook costs to ordinary Americans.

Georgia officials echo the cheap-labor message. Without the tuition break, “we’re basically losing a potential workforce,” Jeremy Williams, Gainesville City Schools superintendent, told the Gainsville Times on January 7.

The HB 120 bill was backed in early January by a top Republican in the State Senate, President Pro Tempore Butch Miller. “If we want these young people to be productive members of our society and contribute, then we’re going to have to educate them and not put them at a disadvantage,” he told the Gainsville Times on January 7.

However, Rep. Jan Jones (GA-47), who serves as Speaker Pro Tempore, the second-highest position in the Georgia House, recently withdrew her sponsorship of the HB 120 bill amid public protest.

“If [the debate] was all private, all this would pass,” King noted.

A third bill, HB 932, would allow fast-track access to in-state tuition for foreign migrants delivered to Georgia by Biden’s fast-expanding refugee and parole programs.

The bill, according to King, “would allow refugees, foreigners here on Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) and Afghans on ‘humanitarian parole’ to be excluded from the current state law and [University of Georgia] policy that says newly arrived college students must be Georgia residents for 12 months before they can access the much lower in-state tuition rate in Georgia’s public colleges and tech schools.”

Cantrell is also backing the bill, said King. “This is his last year [in the legislature], so he’s got nothing to lose by exposing his very, very liberal views on all things immigration,” he said.

The state’s establishment media does not want to talk about the pocketbook costs of migration. Those costs include declining wages for Americans, reduced technology investment in Americans’ workplaces, spiking housing costs for American families, and a massive shift of wealth from rural areas to major cities, including Atlanta, New York, and San Francisco.

In his campaign to replace Gov. Kemp, former Sen. David Perdue also downplays any debate over legal and illegal migration. The state’s farmers are a critical bloc in the state GOP, so even Trump also ignored the issue when he endorsed Perdue.

Kemp ran on the immigration issue in 2018 but has done nothing on the issue since he was elected. Kemp’s office did not respond to questions from Breitbart News.

The Kemp campaign’s description of the 2018 ad says:

“Track and Deport” highlights conservative businessman Brian Kemp’s record on fighting – and winning – against the Obama Justice Department and left wing groups attempting to undermine Georgia’s elections. The thirty second spot also re-iterates Kemp’s commitment to securing the border, defunding sanctuary cities, and tracking criminal aliens for immediate deportation.

“Governor Kemp has been defiant in his refusal even to mention, much less carry out, his campaign promise on criminal illegals,” King noted.

Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents.

In December, for example, the Department of Justice unveiled charges in a massive “modern-day slavery” scheme that sneaked cheap labor into Georgia’s rural economy. The legally-imported, short-term foreign workers allowed the investor-owned farm companies to minimize the payrolls and to cheat American workers out of wages that would have been spent in local communities.

Migration curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.

For many years, a wide variety of polls has shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based,  bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

 

‘Build Back Better’ Bill Could Cost Taxpayers $10.5 Billion by Boosting Illegal Alien Eligibility for Benefits

 By Craig Bannister | November 17, 2021 | 11:43am EST

 

 

 

 

 

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It’ll be easier for illegal aliens to obtain billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded benefits, if Democrats’ Build Back Better bill (H.R. 5376) is enacted.

Currently, applicants must provide a valid Social Security number in order to receive benefits – but, that requirement is eliminated if Build Back Better becomes law, The Daily Wire reports:

“The Build Back Better Act, the massive $1.75 trillion social spending package working its way through the House of Representatives, contains a provision that would remove the Social Security number requirement for the Child Tax Credit.

“The provision, which can be found on page 1,647 of the 2,135-page bill, would amend the federal tax code by removing the provision which requires that a child have a valid Social Security number in order to be eligible for any and all tax credits.”

U.S. taxpayers would be on the hook for a total of up to $10.5 trillion in payments to illegal alien children and illegal alien parents with U.S.-born children, Fox News reports:

“Steven Camarota, a Center for Immigration Studies researcher, estimated that eliminating the requirement could result in up to $2.3 billion in additional child tax credit payouts to illegal immigrants.”

….

“Camarota also estimates an $8.2 billion payout from the expanded child tax credits to illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children.”

Reconciliation would make it even easier for illegal aliens to receive payments next year by eliminating the work requirement, Camarota warned Fox News.

"In addition to dropping the Social Security number requirement, receipt of payments for illegal immigrants is made all the easier because reconciliation also eliminates the work requirement for next year," Camarota said. 

 

Study: Amnesty Will Cost ‘Hundreds of Billions’

NEIL MUNRO

President Joe Biden’s amnesty plan will spike Social Security spending by “hundreds of billions” over the next few decades, according to a forecast by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

The February 22 report, titled “Amnesty Would Cost the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,” says:

The new taxes paid by the average amnesty recipient amount to only half of the $94,500 noted above. The net effect of amnesty is therefore $140,330 [in Social Security benefits] minus $47,250 [in paid taxes], which is about $93,000 per recipient. In any large-scale amnesty, in which millions of illegal immigrants gain legal status, it is easy to see how the net cost could reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

The predicted $93,000 per person cost would be a financial burden for taxpayers — but would be a giveaway to business groups because the Social Security payments will be converted into purchases of consumer products, healthcare services, medical drugs, apartments, and food.

At least 11 million people — perhaps 20 million — are living illegally in the United States. The number rises as people overstay their visas, evade deportation orders, or sneak over the border — but it also falls as some migrants get deported, leave, or find ways to get green cards via the rolling “Adjustment of Status” process.

But taxpayers’ expenses are also economic gains for business groups and investors. In January 2020, a coalition of business groups sued deputies for President Donald Trump after he reduced the inflow of poor migrants into the U.S. consumer market, saying:

Because [green-card applicants] will receive fewer public benefits under the Rule, they will cut back their consumption of goods and services, depressing demand throughout the economy …

The New American Economy Research Fund calculates that, on top of the $48 billion in income that is earned by individuals who will be affected by the Rule—and that will likely be removed from the U.S. economy—the Rule will cause an indirect economic loss of more than $33.9 billion … Indeed, the Fiscal Policy Institute has estimated that the decrease in SNAP and Medicaid enrollment under the Rule could, by itself, lead to economic ripple effects of anywhere between $14.5 and $33.8 billion, with between approximately 100,000 and 230,000 jobs lost … Health centers alone would be forced to drop as many as 6,100 full-time medical staff.

CIS promised a more detailed report:

This is just a rough estimate. We are currently working on a detailed model that will provide more precise costs for both Social Security and Medicare. Again, however, any reasonable calculation will produce a large cost, simply because amnesty will convert so many outside contributors into actual beneficiaries.

For years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and to the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.

The multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, intra-Democratic, and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward immigration in theory — despite the media magnification of many skewed polls and articles that still push the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

The deep public opposition is built on the widespread recognition that migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.

However, Biden’s officials have been broadcasting their desire to change border policies to help extract more migrants from Central America for the U.S. economy. On February 19, for example, deputies of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas posted a tweet offering support to migrants illegally working in the United States and to migrants who may wish to live in the United States.

We'll get 1 million-plus Biden migrants this year, warns ex-Obama/DHS official now at Harvard.
The warning includes a weak criticism of the ethnic lobbies & open-borders progressives who are undermining an Ivy League giveaway in the amnesty bill.#H1B https://t.co/RqZBEGcxKO

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) February 22, 2021

 

Biden’s HHS Nominee Does Not Rule Out Taxpayer-Funded Healthcare for Illegal Aliens

 

JOHN BINDER

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, dodged a question on whether he would push to provide American taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits to illegal aliens.

This week, during a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Becerra was asked by Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) about his previous support for decriminalizing illegal immigration and providing illegal aliens with taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits.

Becerra, though, dodged the question by saying he would follow the parameters of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, which he said allows “very rare” cases of illegal aliens to receive benefits.

The exchange went as follows:

DAINES: You’re on record for pushing for allowing illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded healthcare and for decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States. This coupled with President Biden’s radical plan for granting citizenship to those who are here illegally would potentially lead to hundreds of thousands, if not potentially millions, more people flooding into our country. [Emphasis added]

As you know, in 2016, California passed a law requiring covered Californians to apply for … waivers to allow illegal immigrants to purchase health insurance in the marketplace. This waiver was withdrawn after President Trump’s election. [Emphasis added]

My question is this: Will you attempt to use the waiver authority contained in the Affordable Care Act to grant healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants? [Emphasis added]

BECERRA: Senator, I can tell you that where the law, as it stands now as I see it, it does not allow those who are unauthorized in this country to receive taxpayer-paid benefits except in very rare circumstances and it will be my job to make sure that we are following and enforcing the law. And I can commit to you that that is what we will do. [Emphasis added]

In a letter to Biden, 11 Senate Republicans and 64 House Republicans asked the president to withdraw Becerra’s nomination to be HHS Secretary, citing his support for taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits for illegal aliens, among other issues.

“Mr. Becerra seeks to decriminalize illegal immigration, which would extend expensive government benefits like Medicaid to anyone who illegally crosses our borders,” the letter states.

A Politico report this week suggested Becerra is eyeing plans to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits should he lead HHS.

“He’s one of those individuals that had exceedingly deep convictions about the need to cover the undocumented individuals in all of our communities,” former Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-TX) told Politico of Becerra.

Should Becerra become HHS Secretary, he could let illegal aliens onto Obamacare exchanges while pressuring states to pursue similar policies to those in California. Likewise, Becerra could open Obamacare exchanges to particular subgroups of illegal aliens, like those enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

As Breitbart News reported, forcing taxpayers to provide healthcare to all illegal aliens would cost citizens anywhere between $23 billion to $66 billion every single year — potentially a $660 billion bill for taxpayers every decade, without adjusting for inflation and the increasing number of illegal aliens.

Cost is only the first issue facing taxpayers. Medical experts have admitted providing healthcare to illegal aliens would ensure a never-ending flood of illegal aliens arriving at the southern border with “serious health problems” and local hospitals would have to cover the costs.

Already, taxpayers are forced to subsidize about $18.5 billion of yearly medical costs for illegal aliens living in the U.S., according to estimates by Chris Conover, formerly of the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University.

When U.S. voters were polled by CNN on the issue in July 2019, nearly 6-in-10 said they were opposed to such a policy, including 63 percent of swing voters and 61 percent of self-described “moderates.”

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.