What’s ‘Immoral’ About Caring for America’s Poor First?
Article publisher:
American Renaissance
Article date:
14 December 2018
Article category:
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body:
Congressional Democrats are butting heads with President Donald Trump over his demand for $5 billion to continue building a wall along the southern border. Rep. Nancy Pelosi vows not one dollar will go for a wall. She calls the idea of a wall “immoral.”
Not building the wall is what’s truly immoral. Allowing destitute, uneducated people with limited job prospects to flood across the southern border into the United States forces taxpayers here to toil longer and pay more in taxes to feed and house them, accommodate their children in public schools and pay for their medical care.
Americans are already maxed out caring for our own needy, including the homeless sprawled on city streets.
This nation has 40 million in poverty, 1 out of every 8 people and 1 out of every 6 children. That’s far higher than in Canada or Great Britain.
Our country doesn’t need to import more poverty.
For the same reason, Trump is also proposing that only immigrants who can support themselves without government handouts be granted green cards and permanent status.
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman warned two decades ago that America could have open borders or a generous welfare system — but not both. Open borders benefit a growing economy by providing a source of labor. But that works only so long as immigrants are barred from government benefits....
Right now, newly arrived legal immigrants who earn little or nothing are eligible for fully subsidized Obamacare plans, with taxpayers paying the entire bill, even for co-pays and deductibles. And 6.8 million children of immigrants are enrolled in Medicaid, according to the Urban Institute. Meanwhile, millions of American-born taxpayers who fund this giveaway to newcomers are going without insurance themselves, because they can’t afford it.
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But don’t expect the American public to buy into open borders and unending handouts. That policy already bombed in Europe. Hungary and Spain have put up tall barbed wire fencing to keep out migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The British are erecting a high, unclimbable concrete wall in the seacoast town of Calais, France, to prevent migrants from jumping aboard ferries and trucks heading into the Channel tunnel. European voters have decided border walls are not immoral. They’re essential....