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Republicans Working Hard to Save Obama’s Legacy
Conservative lawmakers led by Thom Tillis are crafting a bill they call the conservative Dream Act that would provide a path to permanent residency to people brought here illegally as children, offering President Donald Trump an escape hatch on one of his most vexing immigration challenges
All the “Conservative Dream Act” does is codify DACA into law. How is this “conservative?”
And Republican Governor John Kasich… who did an end-run around his own state legislature to implement the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in Ohio… has teamed up with Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper to propose a plan for making Obamacare subsidies to insurance companies permanent.
The Trump Administration should commit to making cost sharing reduction (CSR) payments. … Also, Congress should put to rest any uncertainty about the future of CSR payments by explicitly appropriating federal funding for these payments at least through 2019. This guarantee would protect the assistance working Americans need to afford their insurance, give carriers the confidence they need to stay in the market, increase competition, and create more options for consumers. Because the cost of this initiative is already included in the budget baseline, the appropriation would not have budget consequences.
Congress should create a fund that states can use to create reinsurance programs or similar efforts that reduce premiums and limit losses for providing coverage. The House and Senate each recently proposed $15 billion annually for states to address coverage and access disruption in the marketplace with a goal of lowering premiums and saving money on premium subsidies.
So, with a Republican majority in Congress and a Republican in the White House… we get a proposal to pass Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants and a proposal to lock Obamacare into place.
What’s the point?
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Mark Steyn certainly agrees.
No you take away the gun. But you don’t incarcerate the six year old. In patient care, yes. Incarcerate, no.
Right, so your analogy is invalid until you find an advocate for locking up all the illegal immigrants.
One statistic I have not heard rebutted is that exactly zero of the countries from which the <s>DREAMers</s> illegal immigrants come are prison colonies.
Let’s say the rosy picture that Gary Robbin’s sources paint of these adult illegals–conscientious, intelligent, driven, etc.–is 100% accurate. That makes me feel even more confident that they would manage just fine in their home countries.
I’m curious what the numbers are on those who have been deported (if any ever had). Did they die? Have they turned to lives of crime? Are they making a decent living and raising a family? Have they applied for green cards?
If the media wanted to more effectively propagandize this issue, wouldn’t they interview the many deportees whose lives have actually been ruined, rather than playing on the imaginary fear that their lives could be ruined?
The point you make for us, lowtech redneck, is a most valid one. The Dems love expanding their voting base.
But in Calif, where 20 billion bucks is spent annually on immigrants and immigration related issues, this expenditure means that few city council people, few county officials, no state officials, wish to give up the Goose that keeps laying the Golden Egg. So it is not only about helping the Democratic Party keep for itself ever expanding numbers of voters inside various states who will vote for them, it is the tremendous enslavement that happens when Big Government Funding is ubiquitous.