Posted on 10/01/2015 4:58:17 AM PDT by markomalley
Rep Luis V. Gutiérrez, one of Congress’ most outspoken advocates for immigrants, on Wednesday called for expanding the Affordable Care Act to cover all of the estimated 11 million undocumented migrants in the United States.
“The goal is to make integration and inclusion real for millions of families that are locked out under current law,” the Illinois Democrat said in a floor speech introducing his proposed legislation.
“As it stands right now, undocumented immigrants are not subject to the individual mandate and cannot buy into health insurance exchanges even if they use their own money. My legislation will change that. It says that we stand for inclusion.”
Citing last week’s papal address to Congress (the pope repeatedly urged U.S. lawmakers to follow “the Golden Rule”), Gutiérrez said: “Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you means moving forward with no restrictions on which brother and sister and neighbor we think of as ‘eligible’ or ‘deserving.’”
The Gutiérrez legislation faces long odds in the House, where proposals to overhaul immigration have been stymied by Republicans who insist the federal government must first address holes in border security.
But the issue of whether immigrants here illegally should get access to Obamacare has been there from the beginning. When Obama gave his joint address to Congress on the health care bill in 2009, he said illegal immigrants would not have access, which prompted Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., to shout “You lie!” at the president.
Wilson later apologized for the outburst.
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We need to stop both legal and illegal immigration so we do not end with our grand kids being strangers in a country of new legal and illegal immigrants from 3rd world nations.
We do not need 1 million Legal or Illegals per year coming in.
Congress’ most outspoken advocates for immigrants,
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Correction: Congress’ most outspoken advocate for illegal aliens.
Send them all back and send Gutiérrez along with them.
What a slug...
If Rep Luis V. Gutiérrez can convince a majority in the Democrat caucus to support Obamacare for illegals, I guarantee it is a done deal.
The Uniparty as is their want will bleat, whine, cry and threaten but in the end will, as usual fold their tent and vote yes. After all, they do not have 60 votes in the Senate and Obama has the veto.
They go to the emergency room.....and they don’t get turned away.
But of course, Luis is a Democrat who likes to spend other people's money, but not his own. To the Democrats the supply of money is endless, so why not?
He sees his job as spending your money to garner votes for himself. What a deal!
Gutierrez - professional Cloward - Piven promoter and La Raza supporter that needs to be run out of town.
“As it stands right now, undocumented immigrants are not subject to the individual mandate...
So... he's complaining that illegal immigrants aren't required to buy insurance?
Bump
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