It seems as if every day the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates come up with a new policy to benefit illegal aliens — while sticking the bill to the American taxpayers.
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I.-V.T., a Democratic frontrunner in most polls, has come up with two insane ideas in the past week that would only help those who broke the law to enter the country.
Sanders not only thinks deporting illegal immigrants is “not appropriate,” but he also wants to give every single one of them “free” healthcare – while you are stuck paying for it.
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During an interview Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Sanders was asked by host Margaret Brennan about President Donald Trump ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to begin the process of deporting illegals who are currently in the U.S. and have been ordered by the court to be removed from the country.
“There are ICE raids set to start Sunday morning. Estimates of some 2000 people or so who will be targeted, is this appropriate?” Brennan asked Sanders.
Trump delayed the operation two weeks in hopes of working out a deal with Democrats, but Sanders does not think any of the millions of illegal aliens mooching off taxpayers should be deported.
“No, it’s not,” Sanders responded. “It is absolutely not appropriate.”
Brennan pressed Sanders again: “But specifically on this point the two thousand that are supposed to be targeted haven’t shown up for a court date so essentially they’re- they’re not following the asylum process. The legal standards when they’re here. So should they be prosecuted, should they be deported?”
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“I don’t like this deportation thing at all and I think Trump uses this as a beginning to do worse things to come,” Sanders responded.
Bernie Sanders says “it is not appropriate” to deport illegal immigrants that don’t follow law in the United States. pic.twitter.com/Qwd7WDjYIP
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This is hardly the first insane idea Sanders wants to enact if he were elected.
Sanders, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and flew a Soviet flag in his mayoral office, told a crowd in Miami, Florida, last week that his “Medicare for All” plan would “absolutely” cover non-citizens living inside the United States illegally.
“The insurance companies and their drug companies are starting to spend tens and tens of millions of dollars to fight against Medicare for All,” Sanders said.
“And we will organize the American people around the concept that all people in this country have the right to health care, and at the end of the day, we are going to win that struggle,” he added.
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Perhaps stunned by the idea of providing taxpayer-funded healthcare to millions of illegal aliens, the event moderator asked Sanders: “Senator, would you include the 11 million undocumented immigrants in that?”
Bernie doubled down.
“Absolutely,” Sanders declared to cheers from the socialist crowd. “Absolutely. When I talk about health care being a human right, last time I heard that undocumented people are human beings as well.”
Both of his radical proposals would obviously encourage more illegal immigration, seems to be the goal of most 2020 Democratic candidates.
Adding more fuel to the fire, a study from the left-leaning Mercatus Center at George Mason University found that “Medicare for All” would cost between $32 and $38 trillion in new spending over the program’s first ten years.
That’s almost double the current federal budget and would require gigantic, across-the-board tax increases on middle-income families and working-class Americans.
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It would also kill one to two million American jobs — all so that illegal immigrants can get “free” healthcare and not have to worry about being deported.
Make no mistake, this is not just what Sanders wants. Almost every single 2020 Democratic hopeful supports these radical ideas.
And every time Bernie or another Democrat needs a bump in the polls, they unveil another pro-illegal, anti-American policy.
Martin Walsh is an editor for I Love My Freedom and a contributor for The American Mirror and The Horn News. His work has been featured in various conservative media outlets, such as LifeZette, Independent Journal, and Media Equalizer.