Opinion: We the People Must Not Allow Insanity to Prevail—90% of Leftist States Sue to Fund Welfare for Illegal Aliens

Lawfare aimed at blocking anything and everything the Trump administration is doing has become painfully commonplace.

Of even greater concern, however, is a recent lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s ban on federal benefits going to illegal aliens which is being billed as an effort to defend the children.

This from frontpagemag.com.

This lawsuit peculiarly, however, is an admission that much of the welfare system in these Leftist states is being used to provide services to illegal aliens.

The lawsuit makes a two-fold argument, that individual clinics and providers who offer various government subsidized services including health care and education are [1] incapable of determining who is an illegal alien and that [2] they service so many illegal aliens they would go out of business if they were forced to stop.

Say what? This argument will be laughed out of court.

The first argument, that distinguishing an illegal alien is a “complex determination that cannot be made by an untrained individual” is farcical obstructionism, and the second argument is deeply revealing as well as deeply disturbing.

The lawsuit is led by New York, and the press release from Attorney General Letitia James claims the new guidelines “barring many safety net programs from serving all residents, regardless of immigration status” would cause the collapse of free health and education. For example, her press release contends:

New York’s 850 community health centers provide primary and preventative care to 2.4 million low-income residents, regardless of insurance or immigration status… without federal funding or reimbursement for treating patients whose status cannot be verified, many centers could be forced to close.

The above statement begs the question:

If community health care centers would be forced to close unless they’re reimbursed for providing services to illegal aliens, how many of their patients actually are illegals?

NOTE: If a majority or a significant percentage are illegal aliens, taxpayers are funding free health care specifically for illegals, which is acting as a magnet to draw illegal aliens to the United States and then to keep them here—at taxpayer expense. No country can survive long operating like this.

Also, New York and other states claim that defunding illegal aliens would wreck Head Start. While this is treated as an accusation, it is actually an unintentional admission. How much of Head Start funding is actually being expended for illegal aliens? And how many Americans are losing out?

The Leftist states which filed the lawsuit repeatedly admit they use taxpayer funding to provide services to illegal aliens and they are suing for the right to continue doing so.

The lawsuit by 20 states inverts reality, claiming that cutting off funds to illegal aliens will hurt legal recipients of health and education programs, when it is exactly the opposite. Americans have been cut off from access to programs because the programs have been overrun by illegal aliens.

It is not the Trump administration that is killing Head Start or community health clinics, it is the Left who insists on opening up services meant for Americans to illegal aliens the way The Regime opened the border to millions of illegal alien invaders who now fill our cities and states, overrun parks, crowd our schools and create massive social services deficits.

The lawsuits wrongfully argue the Trump administration is undermining the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act which they usually refer to by the hideous acronym PRWORA, but the whole reason PRWORA existed was to thin out the welfare rolls—not only of illegals but of new immigrants. Bill Clinton repeatedly resisted welfare reform but finally gave in and signed PRWORA after vetoing two previous bills, because opposing welfare reform was unpopular.

In the ’90s, Republicans complained about new immigrants going on welfare; now federal benefits are used to subsidize an illegal alien population tens of millions strong. The final argument being trotted out by the Left in sanctuary states is that unless we continue subsidizing services for illegal aliens, the results will be worse. They say: Cut off illegal aliens from community clinics and they will go to ERs. Stop offering them free medical care and they will spread diseases. Stop giving them free educational programs and they will become violent criminals.

The open borders Left want us to believe illegal aliens are our future and unless we coddle them, they will bankrupt us, rob us, and make us sick. None of this is necessary. The secure borders Right have a Plan. Deport the illegal aliens, thus ending the drain on our social-economic resources, and return America to Americans.