California has approved a new budget expanding
Medi-Cal coverage to illegal immigrants up to the age of 26. This will cost
the state hundreds of millions of dollars, even without factoring in the costs
created by the obvious incentive the program will create for illegals to move
to California. Moreover, the formerly Golden State is bringing back the
individual mandate, in part to fund the Medi-Cal expansion for non-residents of
California.
This means that residents of the
state who don’t want to-- or need to—buy health insurance, as well as those who
can’t afford it, will have their money confiscated by the government to provide
health
care to illegal aliens. This is just another mind-boggling middle finger
Democrats have thrust in the face of actual American citizens.
Meanwhile, Democratic presidential
candidate Beto O’Rourke (I wrote that with a straight face!) made a campaign
stop in Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico, recently, where he glad-handed asylum-seekers
from Central America and listened to them bitch about U.S. immigration
policies. The ex-Texas congressman participated in a sit-down with people
housed in a migrant shelter and listened attentively as they complained about
being denied entry into the U.S. until their asylum claims have been processed.
He took to Facebook following the meeting, posting the stories of a few of
those with whom he met. According to the Associated Press,
O’Rourke said via livestream video, “We hope, by sharing these stories, that
the conscience of our country is awoken right now, and the need to change the
policies that we have in place becomes apparent.” He added, “We must end the
Remain in Mexico policy, end metering, end family separation, and end the
detention of those who pose absolutely no threat. But we must go far beyond
that and fix the entire system.”
Illegal immigrants certainly pose
absolutely no threat to progressives’ hold on power, but, no matter how
well-intentioned they might be, they do pose an existential long-term threat to
the nation, particularly if existing citizens have to pay for their health
care, etc. This was the second
time O’Rourke has met with migrants in Ciudad Juarez. He went there in
December, prior to announcing his candidacy for president. During that visit,
he told a group of Guatemalans, “We’re here to understand your story and to see
how we can help you seek asylum in our country.”
Where is O’Rourke going to “campaign”
next, Honduras? Somalia? There are many places in America that he hasn’t
visited, even once. This is yet another example of the disdain Democrats have
for the citizens of their own country, especially those denizens of the
Heartland that dare to differ with their “progressive” policy prescriptions and
proscriptions. (As was O’Rourke’s choice of the Spanish language to answer a
question posed to him during the recent democratic debates).
If today’s crop of Democrats have
their way, virtually anyone and everyone in the world would be encouraged to
circumvent the law and migrate to America. “Come for the free health care, stay
for the income redistribution!” That is, self-evidently, a recipe for utter
collapse.
O’Rourke and his fellow
presidential candidates believe in the “right” to kill our unborn citizens.
They dismiss those with whom they disagree as racists, bigots and xenophobes.
All while luring illegal aliens across the border with our tax money. And they
have the nerve to fret about our consciences?!
I propose a new trade agreement
with Mexico: the U.S. would give them Beto O’Rourke and Mexico would give the
U.S. a burro. That would be a “fair trade.” One ass for another.
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