Illegal Immigration Post #2

Summary: The White House is providing the below clarification on what the president’s health-care proposals would mean when it comes to the issue of illegal immigrants. For the first time, the administration is backing a provision that would require proof of citizenship before someone could enroll in a plan selected on the exchange. Until now there has not been a method to verify the citizenship of applicants, and the new system would not allow illegal immigrants from being able to participate in the exchange. However, the administration also concedes that hospitals would be compensated with public funds for the care of undocumented immigrants.

Reflection: I thought the basic idea of this article was that the government was going to try to identify illegal immigrants in order to prevent them from getting free health care. Basically, this article is against non-citizens recieving the proposed health-care plan. Personally, I think that this is a very biased view on illegal immigration. I think the complete opposite, that illegal immigrants should get the new health care plan.

Evidence:

- Undocumented immigrants would not be able to buy private insurance on the exchange. Those who are lawfully present in this country would be able to participate.

Source:

http://www.illegalimmigrationfacts.com/immigration/illegal-immigration/