Legal but Still Poor: The Economic Consequences of Amnesty

The Daily Beast: “With his questionably Constitutional move to protect America’s vast undocumented population, President Obama has provided at least five million immigrants, and likely many more, with new hope for the future. But at the same time, his economic policies, and those of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, may guarantee that many of these newly legalized Americans will face huge obstacles trying to move up in a society creating too few opportunities already for its own citizens, much less millions of the largely ill-educated and unskilled newcomers.
Democratic Party operatives, and their media allies, no doubt see in the legalization move a step not only to address legitimate human needs, but their own political future.”
Opinion: With poverty comes an open hand. At the same time Obamacare makes full-time employment with benefits and employer paid healthcare nearly unattainable.
With poverty and no jobs come welfare – and with poverty, no jobs, and welfare comes Medicaid.
In California alone an estimated one million undocumented immigrants qualify for President Obama’s executive action of deferred deportation. Of those 40% (400,000) will be eligible for the state’s free Medi-Cal health services, while the remaining will be ineligible under the program’s income requirements.
New hand-out programs will necessarily be created to care for those who are ineligible, and minimum wage incomes will be insufficient to fill basic needs leading to an emergency increase.
Amnesty, like its evil twin Obamacare, will be one more nail in our nation’s economic coffin. And if you think that Republicans can fix either one, think again; they all left town for the Thanksgiving break without a plan.and employer paid healthcare nearly unattainable.
With poverty and no jobs come welfare – and with poverty, no jobs, and welfare comes Medicaid.
In California alone an estimated one million undocumented immigrants qualify for President Obama’s executive action of deferred deportation. Of those 40% (400,000) will be eligible for the state’s free Medi-Cal health services, while the remaining will be ineligible under the program’s income requirements.
New hand-out programs will necessarily be created to care for those who are ineligible, and minimum wage incomes will be insufficient to fill basic needs leading to an emergency increase.
Amnesty, like its evil twin Obamacare, will be one more nail in our nation’s economic coffin. And if you think that Republicans can fix either one, think again; they all left town for the Thanksgiving break without a plan.