Nov 30 2009
Obama Continues to Vindicate Joe Wilson
Remember all the hubbub about Joe Wilson exclaiming “You lie!” to the President during the State of the Union address earlier this year? Of course you do. Despite the chastising he has taken since then by the left and even some on the right for his outburst there is one little problem hanging over the heads of Wilson’s critics. He was right. Both the House health care bill and the Senate health care bill still do not encompass provisions to screen out illegal immigrant workers from the mandate on businesses that they provide health care coverage for all of their employees.
The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.
A rough estimate by the Center for Immigration Studies suggests that the practical effect of the mandates would be that about 1 million illegal immigrants could obtain health insurance coverage through their employers.
Democrats who wrote the House bill said that employer coverage for illegal immigrants is not intentional, but rather the outcome of people breaking the law.
Technically, that may be true. People are breaking the law by hiring illegals, but let’s stop playing games here. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have taken serious steps to crack down on the hiring of illegals. In fact, under this administration and the direction of Janet Napolitano, INS raids on businesses known to employ illegals have all but stopped. The Feds aren’t going to do anything about this problem and the Democrats who wrote this House bill know that full well. Hence, they know they are to blame for the coming crisis if this bill becomes law so they are trying to pass the buck now.
The longer this drags out and receives more attention, the more Joe Wilson may turn out to be a hero to his district rather than an embarrassment.
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At this time I am unemployed due to all the illegals that have been allowed to take over the construction jobs. However I do not blame it all on the employers but do put the blame on the non reps in DC. How can the government ask employers not to hire illegals when the gov is the ones allowing them here in the first place. If you ask me the government needs to do their damn job and then we would not have to worry with illegals.
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