Susan Jones had a good story up at CNS Friday, catching Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius telling a Latino group in Philadelphia Thursday that amnesty was key to them getting access to Obamacare.
“The (Obamacare) bill is crafted in such a way that those who are undocumented will not have access to the tax credits or shopping in the (health insurance) marketplace,” Sebelius said. “That has been limited, which is, frankly, why — another very keen reason why we need comprehensive immigration reform.”
And Sebelius is right. When the Congressional Budget Office released its score of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill, it found the legislation would increase Obamacare subsidy spending by $82.3 billion, and Medicaid spending (which Obamacare expands) by $29.3 billion.
Bottom line: the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill is a huge boost for Obamacare.
And that is not all. When President Obama announced his unilateral lawless delay of Obamacare’s employer mandate, it comepletely undermined every border security promise in the Schumer-Rubio bill. As I wrote at the time:
Does anyone, anywhere, believe Obama would not delay implementation of E-Verify too?
Conservatives who do not trust Obama to enforce perfectly good law – whether it is No Child Left Behind, the War Powers Act, our current immigration laws, etc. – should not trust him to enforce whatever security measures are part of any immigration deal. There is no reason to believe that amnesty would not be every bit the train wreck that Obamacare already is.
And let’s not forget the fact that amnesty would also make it even cheaper for employers to hire amnestied immigrants instead of current Americans. The Washington Examiner‘s David Drucker obtained an unpublished CRS report this week confirming that fact:
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state,” Milton Friedman once said. As long as Republicans still control the House, that will still be true.
