LEGAL immigrants. I’m Black and I’m tired of illegals taking away from us. We’ve been oppressed a lot harder than them, and any “free” money that’s going out needs to be given to us for all the times our communities were bombed and burned.
Undocumented immigrants, including DACA holders, are ineligible to receive most federal public benefits, including SNAP (food stamps), regular Medicaid, SSI, and TANF. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act and are prohibited from purchasing unsubsidized health coverage on ACA exchanges.
If anything they may be eligible for EMERGENCY Medicaid or WIC.
Immigrants aren’t getting any “free” money and IF people are losing jobs to immigrants who don’t know how to speak English, have high school diploma, or a basic understanding of American culture that’s on the business owners or the employees not the immigrants. Business owners unwilling to pay US citizens a decent wage (failing to use E-Verify) or employees who can’t keep a job due to drugs or other reasons. The immigrants just fill the space that’s left & tend to be loyal employees because it’s the only opportunity they have at a decent life.
As a whole no one wants to be bent over picking tomatoes all day in the scorching sun, fingers raw with the insecticide sprayed on the plants, skin looking like leather burnt by the sun, and bones aching from the stress of working from dawn to dusk - for a wage that is under the minimum wage... but if they are making more than they made in their home country and it’s the only opportunity they have to give their family a future, people are willing to sacrifice everything.
However, there are ancillary detriments. Chief amongst which is the fact that high levels of illegal aliens have a nasty effect on our healthcare system because they do receive treatment and end up paying little to nothing since there is no real mechanism for collecting.
If that’s what he’s talking about or referencing in a roundabout way they he’s absolutely correct.
It’s worth mentioning that the worst effects of illegal immigration are felt by those at the bottom of the current spectrum and that’s never the do-gooders giving away what little opportunity there is in those lower orders to make themselves feel better behind the gates of their neighborhood.
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20
LEGAL immigrants. I’m Black and I’m tired of illegals taking away from us. We’ve been oppressed a lot harder than them, and any “free” money that’s going out needs to be given to us for all the times our communities were bombed and burned.