Hundreds of 'sanctuaries' for illegal aliens create a 'nightmare' for DHS/ICE to accomplish their lawful constitutional duties. There are laws to prevent this - it's called 8 USC Section 1324.

 

Illegals DO Get Healthcare Money

Sophie Starkova patriotpost.us 11-6-25

Despite Democrat objections and Leftmedia fact-checks in recent weeks, money is fungible, and federal money goes to states that pay for illegal aliens’ healthcare.

Either illegal immigrants are getting healthcare benefits, or they’re not. In this case, two things cannot be true at the same time.

Democrats are claiming that illegal immigrants are not getting healthcare benefits when, in fact, yes they are. And the Democrat Party wants it to happen. Here’s the receipt:

The illegal immigrant burden on our healthcare system, and taxpayer-funded social services in general, is enormous, and the Democrats have been unashamedly defrauding the American people by the billions to fund it.

How exactly are they pulling off this heist? Until the Republican Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law earlier this year, Democrats employed various methods to get away with pilfering American taxpayers’ pockets. This is exactly why the Democrats are keeping the government shut down — because the OBBBA makes it more difficult for them to give out “free” stuff to people who are not citizens of this country.

As our Gregory Lyakhov rightly noted, by “siding with loopholes and manipulation over taxpayers, Democrats have made clear they would rather protect benefits for noncitizens than protect the program for Americans.”

According to a preliminary audit of the Medicaid program done by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), five states and Washington, DC, siphoned more than $1.35 billion of federal taxpayer Medicaid funding to illegals. The Federalist reports, “California, D.C., Illinois, Washington, Colorado, and Oregon spent millions each on illegals, with California spending the bulk, topping over $1.3 billion alone.” CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz says that was “just in the last few months.” If that gross amount of expenditure on illegals happened in a few months, one cannot fathom how much must have been spent on illegals during the four years of the Biden administration.

States share responsibility for Medicaid funding with the federal government, but once they receive federal funding, they manage the program independently. The law prohibits states from using federal funding for illegals, but since money is fungible, this does not keep them from using their “own” money for illegals. This is how many Democrats can then tout that federal dollars aren’t going to illegals.

Another abuse of the system is that emergency rooms are required by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to treat anyone, regardless of their financial circumstances or immigration status. This allows illegals to flood emergency rooms and receive care on the taxpayer dime. Dr. Oz confirms, “Some want to deny that illegal immigrants are receiving Medicaid. Others insist it’s illegal for Medicaid to cover illegal immigrants. And others accurately point out that hospitals can provide emergency services to illegal immigrants under the program.”

An additional loophole utilized by Democrats is in the allocation of grants for research studies and state and local programs aimed at making it easier for “undocumented persons” to gain access to government healthcare and services. “Illegal immigrants have benefitted from at least $197 million in direct federal healthcare-related grants since fiscal year 2021," reveals the Illinois-based nonprofit Open the Books (OTB).

There are numerous examples of these state programs that receive government grants, and California, again, appears to be at the forefront.

The NIH spent $4.2 million for a study focused on California’s guaranteed annual income experiment on "the fundamental causes of cancer inequities,” which, of course, includes illegal immigrants. Another NIH grant for $2.5 million was awarded to UCLA to research “the use of reproductive healthcare among Asian immigrant women," including "undocumented Asians.” The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a sub-agency of the Department of Health & Human Services, spent at least $75.6 million on grants serving illegal immigrants in OTB’s findings. Roughly $31 million in grants was awarded by the HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to state and local programs that include “undocumented” immigrants among their beneficiaries. One of those was $4 million sent specifically to Long Beach, California, for a program to increase access for low-income and “undocumented populations” to behavioral health and substance use disorder services.

I don’t know about you, but I think I would rather “make asylums great again” than throw gobs of money into programs that only incentivize the behaviors they purport to “help.”

Oregon unabashedly announced two years ago that it was allowing illegal immigrants to access Medicaid benefits, saying, “As of July 1, 2023, people of all ages who meet income and other criteria qualify for full OHP [Oregon Medicaid] benefits and other services and supports, no matter their immigration status." Again, they claim that it is "state” Medicaid money being used to support this, but there’s one problem with that. The federal government reimburses 70% of state Medicaid spending, leaving the rest of us to foot the majority of the bill. It’s long past time to fix the broken ObamaCare scam.

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) estimated that 59% of households headed by an illegal are on one or more welfare programs, whether it’s cash, food assistance, Medicaid, or housing. If that data is accurate and the trend continues, our already debt-laden country will crash because that amount of excessive spending is impossible to sustain.

It is imperative that we completely close the borders until we get better control over the situation, ramp up the deportation efforts that are ongoing, and pass laws that require proof of citizenship before anyone can access welfare programs.

 

Sanctuary cities and states oppose Federal government lawful constitutional actions on immigration. Sanctuary Mayors and Governors must be held accountable.

 

Debating Who Gets Deported

Thomas Gallatin patriotpost.us 11-6-25

The Trump administration has made significant progress in cleaning up the illegal immigration mess the Biden administration left, but there is still much work to be done.

It has been roughly 10 months since Donald Trump returned to the White House. And one of Trump’s top priorities since returning is cleaning up Joe Biden’s open-border disaster.

An estimated 10-14 million illegal border crossings occurred under Biden’s sleepy watch, aided by his administration through a variety of legally dubious gambits.

Thankfully, the Trump administration, led by Border Czar Tom Homan and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has acted swiftly and decisively to both shut down the southern border and reverse the flow of illegal aliens.

By July of this year, the total number of illegal border crossings for the month set a new record low, at just 4,598. To put that in perspective, in July 2024, the number of illegal crossings was 56,400, and in July 2023, it was 132,642.

For fiscal year 2025, the Border Patrol arrested 238,000 migrants illegally crossing, a 50-year low. And if the trend continues — which the indicators suggest — the number of illegal border crossings will likely set a new low next year.

But shutting down the flow of illegal migrants is arguably the easier task. Getting them removed from the U.S. is much more challenging and generates far more controversy.

Here too, however, the Trump administration has seen impressive success, albeit the proverbial row is getting harder to hoe.

More than two million illegal aliens have exited the country thus far. An estimated 1.6 million illegals have self-deported. The Trump administration has encouraged self-deportation by repurposing the CBP Home app, which offers illegal aliens a $1,000 stipend and a free flight to their home country if they willingly sign up. Furthermore, self-deporters preserve the possibility of legally returning to the U.S. at some point in the future and can avoid being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The $1,000 stipend and free flight have actually significantly reduced taxpayers’ costs for immigration enforcement. “Currently, the average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an illegal alien is $17,121,” DHS reports.

Meanwhile, ICE officers have been busy locating and arresting known criminal illegal aliens, 527,000 of whom have been deported so far. Furthermore, an additional 700,000 criminal foreign nationals are currently in ICE detention awaiting deportation.

If the current rate of self-deportation and ICE deportations does not increase, however, nearly half the total number of illegal aliens that entered the U.S. during the Biden administration will still be residing here after Trump’s term is up.

This reality has caused some disagreement and division within the Trump administration. On one side is Homan and ICE Director Todd Lyons, who favor a continued primary focus on arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens. On the other side are Noem, senior advisor Corey Lewandowski, and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. They want to cast a wider net, arresting and deporting illegal aliens irrespective of whether or not they have a criminal record. They’re looking at the overall deportation numbers and want them to increase significantly in order to rapidly shrink the overall population of illegal aliens.

Homan sees this focus as effectively playing into the current false Democrat and Leftmedia narrative that ICE is focused simply on deporting illegal aliens writ large.

As one senior DHS official observed, “ICE started off with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol came to LA in June, we’ve lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It’s getting numbers, but at what cost?”

Meanwhile, the Democrats’ rhetoric regarding immigration enforcement has only gotten more extreme, with ICE officers regularly being smeared as “Nazis” and the “Gestapo.” This rhetoric has resulted in a 1,000% increase in the number of assaults against ICE officers and an 8,000% rise in the number of death threats directed at ICE personnel.

The troubling growth in opposition to ICE will only make the removal of illegal aliens that much more challenging. And should it appear that an increasing number of non-criminal illegal aliens are being arrested and deported, public support for Trump’s efforts will likely quickly erode.

 

Troubled times in Mexico - the government is suffering horrific consequences because of the President's policies.

 

Tough days ahead for ‘La Presidenta’

By Silvio Canto, Jr. www.americanthinker.com

It happens too often, as my Mexican friends tell me.  They are talking about the number of mayors and journalists shot down by what they call “crimen organizado” or organized crime.  Cartels or “crimen organizado” — the result is the same.  More dead in Mexico.

The story this time is tragic.  A popular young mayor with a wife and little kids; a mayor super critical of President-a Sheinbaum’s continuation of “hugs not bullets.”  Well, the bad guys are not hugging, but they are doing a lot of shooting, killing, and pushing their weight around.

This is the story:

Security consultant David Saucedo described the brazen assassination as a ‘kamikaze attack.’

[Mayor] Manzo gained fame as head of the city of 300,000 when he stood up to the bloody cartels that have terrorized Mexico for decades — and acknowledged the risk he was taking.

‘I don’t want to be just another murdered mayor,’ he said in a haunting statement last month. ‘But it is important not to let fear control us.’

His assassination sparked outrage in Mexico City as well as in Washington, DC.

‘On this All Souls’ Day, my thoughts are with the family and friends of Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, who was assassinated at a public Day of the Dead celebration last night,’ US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, a former ambassador to Mexico, wrote on X.

‘The US stands ready to deepen security cooperation with Mexico to wipe out organized crime on both sides of the border,’ he said. ‘Here’s Carlos holding his young son at the celebration just moments before the attack. May his soul rest in peace and may his memory inspire prompt and effective action.’

Yes, he was holding his son when the shooting happened.  Ugly stuff!

The reaction in Mexico has been very harsh.  President Sheinbaum had lots of questions about the murder, but couldn’t say much about it.  There are protests planned around Mexico.

A friend in Mexico, a rancher in central Mexico, called me asking:  “What’s Trump waiting for?”  He was referring to reports of the Trump administration taking out cartel installations.  He added:  “Why Venezuela and not Mexico?”  I told my friend that I don’t see military action in Mexico unless it is in conjunction with Mexican troops.  I also confessed that I could be wrong.

More importantly, the Mexican people are getting angry.  They complain of corruption, shortage of medicine in public hospitals, mayors and journalists getting shot, and lots of other things.  I should add that a lot of the murders are in smaller towns where “crimen organizado” feels that it can operate easier.

“La President-a” is in the middle of this, torn between the reality of crime and her allegiance to the previous (leftist) president who got her elected.  I don’t see happy days for President Sheinbaum.

 

It has always been this way - government and business in 'ca-hoots' with eachother. Government get taxes, Democrats get voters, Republicans get cheap labor. It flourishes with impunity!

 

Blame Government for Businesses Hiring Illegal Aliens

By John Conlin www.americanthinker.com

There is a lot of chatter these days about holding those evil companies that hire illegals to some type of legal retribution. Let me explain why this is the willful failure of government, not the actions of some greaseball company owners.

There are certainly bad actors in any area, but let me enlighten you about how things work out there in the real world. For this we’ll use the construction trades as an example, as over the past decades they have almost completely been taken over by illegal alien workers. 

My buddy was a builder of custom homes and through him I met many general contractors. They all talked of a similar trajectory. Most initially held the line against hiring illegals. They were generally good friends with their work crews -- working alongside them, partying with them, getting to know their spouses and families. And they tried to stick with their employees rather than hiring much cheaper illegal labor and victimizing their present employees.

But not everyone did so. Some unscrupulous contractors saw illegal workers as the way to win every job they bid on. And it worked.

Think of the situation. A good rule of thumb in many things is labor will be around 50% of the cost on a job with materials being the other 50%. Illegals would work for at least 30% less than the present American workers. Assuming material costs are the basically the same for all bidders, taking 30% off labor costs can reduce the bid amount by 15%. 

If you have ever operated in a competitive bid environment, 15% is huge. Materials are basically the same for all and assuming the work quality is about the same -- or at least close enough -- then these folks will seldom, if ever lose a bid.

Some contractors refused and in effect left the industry while others stayed and one-by-one replaced their American workers with far cheaper illegal aliens. And thus, the primary language on most job sites across the country -- big or small -- is now Spanish.

Everyone knew this was happening, and you can’t really blame most of the contractors for ultimately relenting.

But it was government action -- or lack thereof -- that drove this entire process. When the first unscrupulous contractors started working with illegal aliens, they generally paid cash under the table. No payroll taxes or anything like that were paid. 

When this percolated up to the powers that be, there was an outcry. About hiring illegal aliens and putting hard working American citizens out of work? Not a chance.

They came down hard on these contractors and pushed them to take out payroll taxes, Social Security, etc. But that was it! It was clear the problem the government had with this was not the hiring of illegal aliens -- people who have no right even being in the country, let alone working here.

No, the problem was the government wanted “their” money. As long as the contractors did this, government knowingly looked the other way about hiring illegals.

Think of that. You can hire all the illegals you want, but you better damn well pay taxes on their wages! With this acceptance, the entire construction trade abandoned American workers by the millions. All with government's very clear approval.

So let us not be too fast blaming unscrupulous employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. And trust me, everybody knew then and they know now. What are they to do if the government won’t enforce the law? Just happily go out of business as others take their work and income? Would you do that?

E-verify? A freaking joke. A government-provided “get-out-of-jail-free card” to give cover to those hiring illegal aliens -- and to show government is actually doing something about it. And again, everyone knows it.

Think of the “issue” of using stolen Social Security numbers to show you are eligible to work in the country. Why can’t the government do something to stop it? Because they don’t want to.

Many of you have some experience with spreadsheets. One of the first things you were taught was how to do a data sort. It is very simple.

So how difficult would it be for the Social Security Administration to do a data sort for any and all Social Security numbers, looking for those with more than one person associated with them? You wouldn’t need to be an expert sleuth to quickly identify those probably using stolen Social Security numbers.

Let’s see, one person associated with this number is an 80-year-old woman from Iowa who looks like she never moved more than 40 miles from where she was born and started working when she was 16. The other person with this number appeared only 10 years ago -- out of nowhere. Which do you think is using a stolen Social Security number?

It would be quite easy to identify the illegal alien, along with contact information, etc. and remove him from the country. This is supposedly a criminal act. But government gives it a wink-wink, nod-nod approval.

And if you are an owner or manager in any of these industries, what are you to do if the government quite clearly doesn’t mind hiring illegal aliens -- and paying them far less than their American counterparts -- as long as payroll taxes are paid?

Sooner or later, you end up going along with the charade, all thanks to government knowingly looking the other way. And over the decades this has been a bipartisan effort -- both Republicans and Democrats are to blame.

So, if you want anyone to blame for these things, blame government. By allowing the first unscrupulous players to take hold, market forces drive all the rest.

Want it to end? Only government can do this. Blaming employers is just a useful distraction for government and politicians alike. The government has the power to greatly reduce this but they simply don’t try. They like all those extra dollars flowing into their tax coffers -- regardless where it comes from or the damage it does to the very fabric of America.

Once government truly enforces sanctions against hiring illegal aliens, then you can go after the handful of bad actors who try to scam the system.

This is a relatively easy problem to solve. Why hasn’t it been? Because they don’t want to.