Just Facts Daily

Contrary to the claims of Democrats and certain “fact checkers,” Senate Democrats demanded significant amounts of taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants in exchange for reopening the government. They attempted to deny this fact by falsely equating aliens who have been granted a temporary reprieve from deportation with legal immigrants. This includes millions of people that President Biden illegally paroled into the country and DACA recipients, who are commonly called DREAMERS. Beyond court rulings that show they are not legal immigrants, even the Biden administration admitted that “DACA is not a form of lawful status….” The exact amount this would have cost taxpayers is unknown, but the Democrat bill to reopen the government would have given about $193 billion to illegal immigrants and other non-citizens for healthcare over the next 10 years. The long-term costs of this would have been multiplicatively larger because the bill’s welfare benefits would have continued indefinitely into the future.