Title: No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren't Stealing Your Benefits | HuffPost
Headings: No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Your Benefits
No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Your Benefits
What Undocumented Immigrants Receive vs. What They Don’t
How Undocumented Immigrants Contribute
Exaggerating Immigrant Access to Benefits
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Content: It’s already the law. Bill Clinton signed such a bill over 20 years earlier in 1996: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, or “IIRIRA.” Congress legislated that not only would undocumented immigrants not receive welfare, but legal immigrants wouldn’t get benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid or money for child assistance until they’ve lived here at least five years and even seven years after their arrival. What Undocumented Immigrants Receive vs. What They Don’t
To be clear, there are many different types of benefits a resident of the United States can receive. Let’s take a fact-based look at what benefits undocumented immigrants do and do not receive then in the United States. Download
Here’s a listing of benefits undocumented immigrants expressly do not receive: Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP)
Disability, aka Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Food stamps, aka The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Health insurance, aka insurance via the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Medicaid
Medicare
Social Security
Welfare
Here’s what undocumented immigrants may be eligible for: Emergency medical care, including ER visits and Emergency Medicaid
Schooling
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
Let’s hope that overwhelming majority of us can embrace the humanity of these immigrants and assume that — like anyone else who shows up at an ER — the should receive emergency care. Follow-up care?