Whenever politicians promise to reform something, you can bet a golfing junket to Scotland things will wind up worse for everyone else.
In the name of immigration reform, a number of Americans are going to be bounced off the social safety net on Saturday and right into the gutter of sickness, death and political opportunism wrought by Know-Nothings in Congress who are denying life-affirming health care to anyone who is poor and cannot prove citizenship.
A
new law takes effect July 1 preventing undocumented workers from getting free medical care by cleverly crossing the border so they can get sick here.
There are two facts worth noting, as the
Chicago Tribune does on Tuesday: 1) The incidence of Medicaid fraud among immigrants is about as frequent as the incidence of flag-burning and "partial-birth" abortions and 2) thousands of Medicaid recipients - being sick, disabled, old, homeless, mentally ill, foster children or victims of Hurricane Katrina - do not have any proof of citizenship or even birth.
Come Saturday morning, Congress and the president will sacrifice the weakest of American citizens so that some Mexican doesn't take the job they don't have. If they want an explanation, maybe they could tune in to Lou Dobbs on the cable televisions they don't have either.