All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019
The party of unrestricted, open borders, is showing us who we thought they were.
Every single Democrat running for president on the debate stage last night endorsed taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants.
“Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants” #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/d3S5uZ43uw
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 28, 2019
That includes former Vice President Joe Biden, who with then-President Barack Obama intentionally chose to exclude covering illegal immigrants from the Affordable Care Act.
Per National Review:
“You cannot let people who are sick, no matter where they come from, no matter what their status, go uncovered,” Biden said, when asked to explain the change in philosophy. “You can’t do that. It’s just going to be taken care of, period. You have to. It’s the humane thing to do.”
Southbend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg cast his support for the proposal in fiscal terms, suggesting that it would ultimately prove cheaper to insure the millions of people in the country illegally rather than allow them to continue to rely on emergency services.
“This is not about a handout,” he said of providing illegal immigrants with publicly funded health care. “This is an insurance program. And we do ourselves no favors by having 11 million undocumented people in our country be unable to access health care. But, of course, the real problem is we shouldn’t have 11 million undocumented people with no pathway to citizenship.”
President Trump responded to the Democrats’ unanimous support for insuring illegal immigrants by preemptively declaring victory in the general election.
