{"id":8744,"date":"2015-04-08T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:22:26","slug":"theres-still-more-california-can-do-for-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/04\/08\/theres-still-more-california-can-do-for-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Still More California Can Do for Illegal Aliens?"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>If you thought that there was nothing more California<\/a> could do to protect illegal aliens or provide them with expensive public benefits<\/a>, you\u2019d be wrong. Very wrong.<\/p>\n California already gives illegal aliens driver\u2019s licenses, professional licenses, in-state tuition benefits, Cal Grants to supplement the in-state tuition fees, prohibits state and local police from honoring most ICE detainer requests, to name just a few.<\/p>\n So what\u2019s left? Surprisingly, members of the California Legislature have found at least ten more benefits and services<\/a> that the state can bestow on illegal aliens. The illegal alien caucus in the Legislature \u2013 which is pretty much all of them \u2013 has a ten-bill package of new goodies for illegal aliens that they hope to enact into law this year.<\/p>\n Topping the list of initiatives is getting every illegal alien in the state taxpayer-funded health insurance. One bill would make the estimated 1.5 million uninsured illegal aliens in California eligible for Medi-Cal, the state-run health care program for the poor. For the estimated 300,000 illegal aliens whose incomes are too high to qualify for Medi-Cal, State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) has a bill that would seek federal permission for them to buy subsidized health insurance through the state exchange set up under Obamacare.<\/p>\n Illegal aliens are explicitly excluded from purchasing insurance through state exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act, but the Obama administration rarely lets a little thing like the law get in the way of doing what it wants. But, just in case, Lara proposes that California establish a separate health insurance exchange if the feds deny California\u2019s request.<\/p>\n