Florida‘s Immigration Law Is Working - Top 3 Takeaways – February 15th, 2024
- When all else fails. It’s been seven and half months since Florida’s latest immigration law took effect which means it’s been about eight months since open borders/pro illegal immigration activists said stupid stuff like this... Florida Democrat Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried claimed in May of last year that the new law would cause 800,000 migrants to leave Florida. Quoting Nikki: I don’t know who is going to be doing the picking of the fields during the harvest and who is building all these new homes for everybody who is moving to our state. As I mentioned in answer to Nikki at the time, presumably and preferably people who aren’t breaking the law. What a novel concept, right? And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my favorite example of related hyperbole. It came when the organizer of the “Latino Movement” organized protests in West Palm Beach against the law, after it had already been signed mind you, and said this to a sympathetic reporter at WPTV...I don’t want to pay $2 for a strawberry. As compelling of an argument as it is that we should allow federal criminals into our communities in avoidance of $2 strawberries...there are few unmovable facts to consider. First let’s be clear – every illegal immigrant is by definition a federal criminal and commonly their federal crimes don’t stop with their illegal entrance into this country. No, they’re federal criminals which commit additional federal crimes at greater than 9x the rate of a legal citizens and is responsible for a quarter of all federal crime in this country now mind you – facts that are never discussed by the irresponsible actors in news reporting who provide cover for illegal immigrants in the name of alleged $2 strawberries. But speaking of money – what facilitating all of that illegal activity by illegal immigrants now costs every federal taxpayer is $1,156 per year. That’s a lot of strawberries – even if they were to cost $2 each – which they don’t. I mean seriously Think about how stuck on stupid you have to be to pay $1,156 per person per year to be victimized by those people. It’s frankly masochistic. But anyway, my top takeaway today isn’t simply a rehash of what I’ve uncovered for you over the past year on this topic.
- It’s about the latest, most desperate effort to try to find a negative effect of Florida’s immigration law. Yesterday in Politico there was a story headlined: ‘There was a lot of anxiety’: Florida’s immigration crackdown is causing patients to skip care. Now you might be thinking that you haven’t been skipping health care since Florida’s immigration law took effect. So, who would be? Oh, that’s right, illegal immigrants who have otherwise been scamming our healthcare system at your expense, though of course it's not covered that way. No, the story instead says this: At issue is a new Florida law requiring hospitals that receive Medicaid dollars to ask patients about their immigration status. Undocumented migrants in Florida are now steering clear of hospitals and clinics, worried that they’ll be arrested or deported, according to 10 immigration advocates, lawmakers and health care officials. The sympathetic story goes into a series of interviews depicting declines in illegal immigrants obtaining healthcare across the state out of fear of being reported.
- The irony is that this is being portrayed as a negative. How many stories have we had about a shortage of medical professionals across the state? Doesn’t this help address that issue? How expensive is healthcare? How many stories have we had about the lack of affordability in healthcare? Won’t not having to foot the medical bills for illegal immigrants making illegal use of our healthcare systems help lower medical costs? When all else has failed for the news media types who attempt to prop up illegal immigration as appropriate and necessary, they’ve decided to play the woe is the illegal immigrant who no longer is comfortable obtaining healthcare card. And the irony is they don’t realize that in so doing they’ve failed yet again. Show of hands. How many Floridians want to wait longer to gain access to healthcare providers so that illegal immigrants can obtain care first? How many Floridians want to pay more for healthcare services so that illegal immigrants can get healthcare services for free? Not even the disingenuous news media types who cover this stuff are dishonest enough to raise their hands for those two questions. What this latest story shows, is yet another reason why last year’s immigration law was the right thing to do to serve the interests of Floridians over those of illegal immigrants. And btw, at Publix right now it costs $3.33 for 16oz of strawberries (which comes out to 20 cents per large strawberry in case you were curious). All of the people and sources I’ve referenced have tried really hard to discredit Florida’s immigration law. They need to fail better.