All ten Democratic presidential candidates on stage tonight just gave a huge gift to President Trump by saying they would have government — meaning taxpayers — finance healthcare for illegal immigrants in this country.
One need not be an anti-immigrant hard-liner to resent having illegal immigrants come here to gain free stuff, rather than work for it. If there is any stance sure to turn off working-class Americans, the ones Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio rightly identified last night as the key constituency for winning the 2020 election, it is the idea of having their tax money go to people whose first act on American soil was to break our laws.
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