Comments on: Undocumented Shouldn't Mean Uninsured

The New Republic: Leaving Illegal Immigrants Out Of Health Care Only Costs Taxpayers Money

[wmb1957]

sparks224, You may have invited cheap labor, I did not. Indeed studies show at least some correlation between income and sentiment supporting illegal immigration.
Perhaps those most likely to hire them as "household" help, want to keep their cheap labor around, and prefer that the public give them benefits, like healthcare.

[libsluvsuvs]

A lot of advocates for illegal immigration talks about this issue like they have options...THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS..THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALY hence THEY HAVE NO OPTIONS AND THERE IS NO ROOM TO NEGOTIATE THIS MATTER..THEY NEED TO BE REMOVED.

[trillion1]

When the 14th. ammendment was written we were not being over run by millions of illegals.

[wmb1957]

"In 2000, a study from Health Affairs found that less than 1 percent of undocumented immigrants "cited obtaining social services as the most important reason for immigrating."

This 1% is enough reason to support a policy that further restricts social services to illegal immigrants, eliminates birthright citizenship and rather has citizenship for minor children follow the parents citizenship status.

Those two changes alone would have an immense affect on the illegal immigration in this country.

[sparks224]

Let''s all hate the cheap labor that we invited into our country.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[wmb1957]

RowdyTexan2, how is this a "republican guilt trip"?

The Democrats are the ones supporting illegal immigration in most cases, some Republicans do as well, but not the majority of them. At least in my experience.

I''m an independent, Illinois, and both of my senators, Durbin and Obama are fully in the pro illegal immigrant camp. Both are Democrats.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[rowdytexan2]

A Unversal Health Care Program for US citizens does not bar one immigrant from purchasing their own health insurance program!

Let the profiteering insurance companies sign up every one of them and let them contribute to it, just like every one of us have to.

The point is, if they''re here illegally, they don''t have the right to the pursuit of health, properity and those inalieable rights that belong to a citizen.
Let them go home and demand it from their own governments.

Or better yet, if they''re here in this country working, demand that the big businesses that are hiring them pay for their health care as protection against tax payer dollars! I think that''s a piece of legislation that should be put thru immediately if they want to bring in immigrants to flood the job market for their profitability with cheap labor.

Pass a Universal Health Care program for our citizens which excludes illegal immigrants and require those bustwards who hire them pay for their health care!

This is just another republican guilt trip being thrown in our faces! I can''t believe intelligent people are falling for this ***!

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[wmb1957]

GladImNotOJ, while you may find your interpretation of the 14th amendment the only reasonable, even the Supreme Court was not that convinced with two dissenters on United States v. Wong Kim Ark. The dissenters arguments were based on previous case history as well as the Congressional Records of the debate surrounding the 14th amendment. Indeed Congressional Debate suggests that Congress did not mean to cover all as citizens.

Nor in United States v. Wong Kim Ark were the parents illegal immigrants. Although courts have seemed to apply the case to illegal immigrants, I am unaware of a Supreme Court case that has actually decided the issue unequivecally.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[wmb1957]

Prenatal care is not denied to illegal aliens in Pennsylvania. The website for the Pennsylvania Health Law Project has information including several federal programs available. The article does not state how long the woman had been in the U.S. illegally, or if she had made an attempt to get prenatal care prior to the emergency. Instead the article contains major mistatements in an attempt to reinforce the beliefs of the author.

The author goes on to use this erroneous arugment to support his view that all illegal immigrants should be entitled to healthcare insurance in the United states. However, although Canada and Mexico, have free health services, neither provide these services free to illegal immigrants in those countries on a universal base. Rather illegal immigrants are often required to pay for those services.

The question we should be asked is why are we giving citizenship to children based solely on birth in the United States. Again an example of our liberalness which neither Canada or Mexico follow.

It would be foolish to further flood the United States with illegal aliens by providing further benefits to those here illegally.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[anayeli-2009]

I''ll gladly support prenatal care for illegal immigrants as long as their babies don''t gain "birthright citizenship", the current misinterpretation of the 14th amendment.

[trillion1]

We start taking care of all the sick citizens then I''ll care about some illegal.