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November 12, 2009 U.S. Taxpayers Should Not Have to Pay for Illegal Immigrants' Healthcare FAIR President Dan Stein says that Americans recognize that extending the full range of benefits to people who have no legal right to be in the country is unjustified and would add billions of dollars to the cost of a healthcare overhaul. Taxpayers--at the federal and state level--already spend about $11 billion a year on unreimbursed care for illegal aliens. Read Dan Stein's full opinion piece in today's U.S. News & World Report.
Dan Stein Op-Ed: Illegal Immigrants Should Not Have Access to the Health Exchange "On the surface, it seems logical to allow illegal aliens to purchase health insurance through an exchange that would be established under the House-approved reform bill. Upon closer examination, however, there are many good reasons to bar illegal aliens from it," says FAIR president Dan Stein in an op-ed in today's USA Today.
Dobbs Leaves CNN Lou Dobbs announced on yesterday's show that he was leaving CNN and the broadcast would be his last on the network. Dobbs' contract with CNN ran through 2011.
Immigration a "Rift Issue" in Health Care Debate, Says NYT Kevin Sack, writing for the "Prescriptions" blog at the New York Times, says immigration continues to be a contentious issue in the health care debate. "The legislation the House passed on Saturday by a narrow margin also sets up a looming confrontation with the Senate over the extent to which illegal immigrants should have access to public resources," Sack says.
Hispanic Groups Rethink Health Care Debate After initially adopting a hands-off approach to health care reform, Hispanic groups are starting to weigh in on the issue of subsidized health care for illegal immigrants as well as new legal immigrants. "Some Hispanic activists believe their early cautious stand may have backfired, and they are turning up their advocacy, said Lillian Rodriguez Lopez, president of the Hispanic Federation," the Washington Post wrote.
Balloon Boy Dad Pleads Guilty to Avoid Deportation of Wife Richard Heene, father of Falcon Heene, who was at the center of a widely publicized incident where authorities thought Falcon was on a runaway balloon, pled guilty to a felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant. A statement issued by Heene's attorney said that "it was ultimately the threat of taking the children's mother from the family and deporting her to Japan which fueled this deal."
Texas Deputies Help Deport Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Eight deputies at the jail in Harris County help deport up to 1,000 illegal immigrants a month. The deputies screen inmates against the DHS databases to determine legal status. Once they find someone here illegally, ICE agents at the jail can take them into custody once they are released.
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