{"id":22669,"date":"2020-03-23T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22669"},"modified":"2020-03-23T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:11:38","slug":"illegal-aliens-public-benefits-covid-19-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/03\/23\/illegal-aliens-public-benefits-covid-19-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Illegal Aliens Fear Being Tested? Is This A Bad Joke or Simply a Misinformed Reporter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A reporter asked the president during a briefing yesterday if illegal aliens would be welcomed at coronavirus testing sites and if they should <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?470588-1\/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-briefing&amp;start=4452\" target=\"_blank\">fear being deported<\/a> (see 1:12:21). Emergency health care is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Regulations-and-Guidance\/Legislation\/EMTALA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">never denied<\/a> to anyone regardless of their immigration status, and there\u2019s good reason why no one ever sees footage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) doing raids on local hospitals: It doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with this whole exchange is the premise of the unidentified reporter\u2019s question. There is scant to nil evidence that illegal aliens fear accessing health care services, let alone a whole host of other U.S. public benefits. In fact, this 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/publications-resources\/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">cost study<\/a> demonstrates clearly that the exact opposite is true:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Illegal\naliens showed scant fear or hesitation showing up to hospitals and clinics for\nfree healthcare, including giving birth, costing U.S. taxpayers <strong>$29 billion<\/strong> annually. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Illegal\naliens showed little fear signing up for food stamps and other nutrition\nprograms, costing U.S. taxpayers just nearly <strong>$9 billion<\/strong> annually.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Illegal\nalien parents had little or no fear enrolling their children in free public\neducation, costing taxpayers <strong>$46 billion<\/strong>\nannually. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so\nlittle fear in the illegal alien community to access freebees, that in 2017,\ntheir presence cost U.S. taxpayers in excess of <strong>$116 billion<\/strong> annually. That\u2019s pretty solid proof that there\u2019s no\nfear at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of U.S. immigration enforcement policy is not to\nscare people from seeking emergency health care, especially now, but to\nreasonably deter people from breaking our laws. Rather the goal of critics of\nimmigration enforcement is to scare the rest of the nation&nbsp;into believing\nthat any form of immigration enforcement will inevitably lead to catastrophic\nconsequences for the illegal aliens and the rest of us, even when there is no\nevidence to support that supposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter asked the president during a briefing yesterday if illegal aliens would be welcomed at coronavirus testing sites and if they should fear being deported (see 1:12:21). Emergency health care is never denied to anyone regardless of their immigration status, and there\u2019s good reason why no one ever sees footage of Immigration and Customs<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/03\/23\/illegal-aliens-public-benefits-covid-19-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":22427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[6521],"tags":[1524,5691,275,4782],"yst_prominent_words":[2019,5369,2969,8065,8063,8060,8064,8061,1995,3251,2966,2965,2013,2008,1963,1988,8066,3835,1939,8062],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22670,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions\/22670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22669"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}