Health Care and Undocumented Immigrants

Marshall Fitz

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The health care town hall circus this August had a recurrent sideshow: the undocumented immigration paper tiger.

Representative Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) outburst during President Obama’s prime time address to Congress and the nation and its underlying charge—that the president’s plan will cover undocumented immigrants—mimics the tactics and talking points of the status quo caucus. They have made clear that they will pursue any means—including false claims and ad hominem attacks—to derail both health care and immigration reform. Alleging that undocumented immigrants will get benefits is their go-to strategy to inflame a debate.

But this debate is too important to allow falsehoods to go unrebutted, so it’s time (yet again) to set the record straight.

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