This tears me up inside. Why won’t illegal immigrants take more of our government-provided services? What can we do to encourage them to take more?<\/p>\n
New York Times<\/a>: “Around the country, clinics that serve immigrants report seeing fewer patients since the Trump administration issued broad deportation orders.”<\/p>\n “Yet as medical costs present a burden for millions of Americans, many people question why citizens who can scarcely afford their own health care should support through taxes the care of those living here illegally.”<\/p>\n “Between 2000 and 2011, immigrants not authorized to work here contributed between $2.2 billion and $3.8 billion a year more to Medicare than they withdrew, according to a 2016 study.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This tears me up inside. Why won’t illegal immigrants take more of our government-provided services? What can we do to encourage them to take more? New York Times: “Around the country, clinics that serve immigrants report seeing fewer patients since … Continue reading