{"id":22947,"date":"2020-05-12T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22947"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:32:16","slug":"democrats-covid-relief-funds-illegals-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/05\/12\/democrats-covid-relief-funds-illegals-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Phase 4: Raising the Investment in Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With House Democrats assembling a new coronavirus relief package<\/a>, immigration enthusiasts are lobbying to get more assistance to illegal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first three stimulus bills\u2014the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act<\/a>; the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA)<\/a>; and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act<\/a> — contained provisions that could aid illegal migrants and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CARES Act included $100 billion<\/a> to reimburse health-care providers for serves to COVID-19 patients, regardless of immigration status. The measures also authorize refundable tax credits to employers who extend paid-leave for illegal-alien workers and their families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not nearly enough, progressives complain. Upset that illegal aliens weren\u2019t entitled to stimulus payments and jobless benefits, the leftist Center for American Progress<\/a> wants Congress to follow Ca<\/a>l<\/a>ifornia<\/a>\u2019s lead and dispense relief checks to illegal migrants while putting them on unemployment insurance rolls. Expanding Medicaid eligibility is also on the to-do list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The center calls these add-ons \u201ca smart investment in the\nnation\u2019s economy,\u201d without hazarding a price tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migration Policy Institute<\/a> (MPI) modeling of this country\u2019s illegal immigrant population suggests that such munificence could run well into the hundreds of billions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assuming a \u201cmedium unemployment scenario\u201d of 17.5 percent\njobless (U.S. was at 14.7 percent last week), MPI estimates that 5,152,000\nillegal aliens would be medically uninsured. At 25 percent unemployment, that\nnumber grows to 5,993,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRegardless of their immigration status, leaving millions of\npeople uninsured and unable or afraid to access COVID-19 testing and treatment\ncould lead to further spread of the virus,\u201d MPI says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear mongering is a ritual pose of the left, and it\u2019s\nespecially disingenuous here. Public hospitals do not turn away people\nsuffering serious medical conditions; nor do they check immigration papers. In\n2017, FAIR found that illegal aliens received more than $29 billion\ngovernment-funded medical services per year. Those outlays have risen in a time\nof coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> has stopped conducting operations \u201cat or near health care facilities, such as hospitals, doctors’ offices, accredited health clinics, and emergent or urgent care facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the reputed \u201csmart investment in the nation\u2019s\neconomy,\u201d paying benefits to illegal aliens does nothing to help American\nworkers, while it erodes public trust. It is not the obligation of U.S. taxpayers\nto fund unemployment programs for individuals who lost jobs that they were\nexplicitly barred from holding in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploiting the coronavirus crisis to perpetuate an illegal,\nunderground economy only begets more bad behavior and more illegality. That\u2019s\nfar from a \u201csmart investment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With House Democrats assembling a new coronavirus relief package, immigration enthusiasts are lobbying to get more assistance to illegal aliens. The first three stimulus bills\u2014the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act; the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA); and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act — contained provisions that could aid<\/p>\n

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