So how is health care for illegal immigrants going to be paid? I can see a couple of problems.

All the Democrat Socialist candidates raised their hands during the debates, stating they would all pay for free health care for illegal immigrants, so now this becomes something we have to seriously consider. I understand that Medicare is now funded by taxes.

What I am seeing is a problem with limits.

The same candidates who want to provide free health care for illegal immigrants also don't want to limit the number of illegal immigrants who can just decide they want to live here, and come up through the the southern border, without end.

So basically, we're talking unlimited free health care for anyone and everyone in the world who just decides they want to live here. We are talking about people who, for the most part, can't speak English, and can't read and write English, and they will only be able to get the most low paying jobs because of that, if they can even find an employer willing to hire them.

The lowest wage earners will not be able to earn enough individually to pay in enough taxes to cover the cost of free Medicare for themselves, and they have definitely not been paying health care taxes into the system since their teens to cover the cost.

Portland, Maine, is now filled to bursting with a large number of African illegal immigrants. That particular lot feel very entitled, and began demanding their free benefits quite rudely the moment they arrived. People are coming to the southern border from all over the world expecting a free lunch.

At what point will the system crash due to overload?

I am only interested in polite and well thought out responses. Rude or abusive people, please do not respond.

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SW-User

So what is the alternative ? We just let them all die at the border in these detention centers ? We just let sick migrants spread sickness and get others sick ? We should just not view them as human beings who are trying to make a better life for their families ? Do you have a solution ?

4meAndyou · F

@SW-User I think that our lawmakers are supposed to control unlimited immigration. That is supposed to be our alternative. Unfortunately they aren't doing that. Instead, they are offering incentives to illegals, so that more and more will come, crashing our existing systems, and creating this humanitarian crisis.

Everyone wants a better life for their family, but that is not a legal or valid reason to cut the line in front of millions of legal immigration applicants all over the world.

The fact that lawmakers are encouraging them to come here and risk their own lives is criminal. You saw the photo of the drowned man and his little girl.They came here, not because they needed asylum, but because they thought they would have a better life. They thought they could break the law and commit fraud and cut the line, and they died.

We need to put lawmakers in Congress squarely in front of our crosshairs when searching for someone to blame for all this needless suffering. Their appalling greed for votes and power has created this.

It is easy to feel very emotional about this issue, but when you really think about what happens once the people claiming asylum enter the United States, you might think about it differently.

It's a hard fact that 90% of asylum seekers who are given a court date to prove their asylum status simply disappear into the United States and don't show up for court. 90%.

If their claims were legitimate, and if they showed up for court, our laws would protect them and they would be able to live here in freedom, never having to hide.

However, 90% of the people who are claiming asylum know their claims are fraudulent, and that is why they don't show up for their court date. So 90% of all illegal immigrants are committing fraud, and doing it of their own free will and they are dragging their children along with them in order to gain more sympathy, and knowing full well that families with children can NOT be immediately deported by our law.

And they are perfectly willing that their children's lives are put at risk. Perfectly willing.

SW-User

@4meAndyou 90% ? From what source ?

4meAndyou · F

@SW-User I heard that from the former director of ICE during an interview. Googling the statistic, I have found 50% of websites state it is true, and 50% of websites state that 90% DO show up, so the documentation is as divided as our country. However, I tend to believe a former director of ICE more than I would a blog, or a rag on Google.

The acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security upholds that stat.

https://ijr.com/dhs-secretary-whopping-percentage-migrants-dont-show-hearing/