That's some expensive ass **** right there.Waco1947 said:Which federal public benefits are available to undocumented immigrants?Canada2017 said:No strawman....reality just bounces off of your forehead.Waco1947 said:Your straw man is wrong. I understand reality. I raised a question if the reality "Here they come" then my question is how do we manage it?Canada2017 said:You remain totally clueless on the ramifications involved.Waco1947 said:
The USA is a terrific country. We have opportunities galore and we are an attractive country. People beyond our borders are young, healthy, hard workers, anle to endure really tough times, and eager to learn and be educated. Any employer would want this worker.
People are attracted to Syria or Somalia. How does a nation control its attractiveness. Make ourselves less attractive? Hardly.
Yet here they come who fault is that surge?
If the United States doesn't protect the integrity of its borders and existing immigration laws.........TENS OF MILLIONS of illegal immigrants will continue to flood into our country .
The vast majority of whom are under educated, lack even basic employable skills, and do not speak English .
The vast majority of these people are simply not employable . So who is going to pay for medical care, shelter, and food for these millions for the next few years ? You ?
It is physically IMPOSSIBLE.....it is financially IMPOSSIBLE ....to absorb the tens of millions of central and south Americans who would enter the United States if allowed to do so.
How can you consistently fail to grasp such an obvious reality ?
Here is the list still again ......
We manage it by enforcing EXISTING immigration laws.
We manage it by ending all FREE social services for illegals .Wrong
We manage it by finishing the wall. Have you been to the border from New Mexico to the Rio Grande?
We manage it by FINING employers who hire illegals....such laws already exist .
We manage it by expanding the Border Patrol
In general, undocumented immigrants, meaning people from other countries who do not have a legal right to be in the United States, are not eligible for any federal public benefits.
However, there are instances where undocumented immigrants, including those under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, may be eligible for some benefits that are considered necessary to protect life or guarantee safety in extreme circumstances.
Those include:Undocumented immigrants in some cases may also be allowed services or assistance that were laid out in a 2001 U.S. Attorney General order.
- Emergency medical treatment under Medicaid if the individual meets the other eligibility requirements and the medical condition is not related to an organ transplant procedure.
- Immunizations for immunizable diseases and testing for and treatment of symptoms of communicable diseases.
- Free public education for grades K-12.
- Federally subsidized school lunch and school breakfast programs for those eligible for free public education under state or local law.
That order included child and adult protective services; programs addressing weather emergencies and homelessness; shelters, soup kitchens and meals delivered to individuals; medical, public health and mental health services; disability or substance abuse services necessary to protect life or safety; and programs to protect workers and other community members.
Which state benefits are available to undocumented immigrants?
As with the federal government, state and local governments ban unauthorized immigrants from many assistance programs as well as the ability to get government contracts, licenses, grants and loans.
However, they are eligible for other state benefits such as:Pregnant women and nursing mothers are generally eligible for benefits under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women-Infants-Children (WIC).
- Treatment for emergency conditions (other than those related to an organ transplant)
- Short-term, in-kind emergency disaster relief
- Immunization against immunizable diseases and testing for and treatment of symptoms of communicable diseases.
WIC provides federal grants to states for supplemental food, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
If an undocumented immigrant gives birth to a child in the United States, that child could be enrolled in Medicaid to get health care, but the undocumented parents could not. Medicaid is funded by the federal government and administered by the state. The child would be allowed in the program because children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents become U.S. citizens at birth.
Twenty-five states have programs that provide health care for low-income immigrant children lawfully living in the United States. Six states California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, along with the District of Columbia provide Medicaid to children regardless of immigration status.
Those states do not get federal Medicaid matching funds to help pay for that cost. The states that provide Medicaid to immigrant children with legal residency do get federal funds to help pay for the cost of the care.