Booker: ‘Common Sense Thing’ to Provide Illegals with Taxpayer Funded Health Care
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BOOKER: "First of all, this is not a progressive decision. It’s a common sense thing. I was the chief executive of a city. Do I want someone who gets sick with a potential communicable illness to not be able to go to a hospital and get treated, to potentially infect others? Do I want kids to not get vaccinated that are in my country? We’ve got to have some common sense here, because we may think that shutting off people to any kind of access to health care is some kind of tough stance, but really what it does is it endangers our own populations if we don’t have some pathway for people getting some kind of support. That’s why when I was mayor of the city of Newark, I said when it comes to emergency services, policing services, hospital services, undocumented immigrants here are part of our community and they have access to those things. We have a president right now that is enforcing things that make us less safe not only in a health care way but in a criminal capacity because now we have a climate in which immigrant population are afraid to even report crimes, because they feel like if they come forward. because of a program called 287-G, they will risk deportation. It makes us all less safe. Let’s not make this a partisan issue, let’s make it a common sense issue."