It's like a perpetual case of déjà vu.
We find cases of illegal aliens collecting welfare or being on Medicaid, and then Democrats, progressives, along with their toadies in the liberal media, swarm like tsetse flies, buzzing 'No credible proof! Never Happens!' Or, if backed into a corner, they'll fight their way out snarling, 'Extremely rare and in such minuscule amounts IT DOESN'T MAKE NO NEVERMIND!'
The second they're free and clear of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they will immediately revert to chanting the 'Never happens' mantra.
LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT
Invariably, what gives their game away in the vast majority of instances is their own overheated rhetoric.
Take the headline for a post I wrote almost exactly a year ago:
Dems Magic Tricks: Illegals Who Were 'NEVER on Medicaid' Have Suddenly 'Lost Access'
DERP
Fauxcahontas videotaped her pasty paleface weeping in her car about little babies starving to death because of cruel Republicans denying them food Democrats swore on the Baby Jesus they never had access to to begin with.
They lied with straight faces and have been lying the entire time, fooling no one.
I’m old enough to remember when Obama told Congress that illegal aliens wouldn’t get free healthcare, and Congressman Joe Wilson got slammed for yelling “You Lie.” Zoom forward to today and a Republican-controlled Senate can’t even pass a bill to get illegal aliens off of… pic.twitter.com/q8Ru86MMI5
— 🇺🇸FoiaFan🕍🇮🇱 (@15poundstogo) June 30, 2025
Here's everyone's current favorite Dog Faced Lying Baloney Soldier last October giving Americans the 'teeny tiny number makes no never mind' middle finger.
Khanna on Fox: "In terms of healthcare, the reality is they are just not being honest. The amount of money that actually is going towards people who are undocumented is such a small portion of the Medicaid cuts or the ACA, if at all." pic.twitter.com/Y8vREnylaI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 1, 2025
We've all watched the circle...um...of Democratic life play out (Ed keeps telling me to remember it's a family-friendly site).
And daggum if they haven't gone and given the game away again. I don't think they can help themselves - they're kind of like Pavlov's dogs.
Easily triggered into an involuntary response.
The trigger in this instance is a potential policy change which might soon take effect from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This will take into account any benefits an immigrant, whether legal or illegal, may have availed themselves of, and that information will then be part of the data used in order to make a green card determination.
In other words, did you get here and go to work or go straight to mooching? What are the chances, if allowed to remain in the U.S., that you could become a burden to the public?
DHS could weigh immigrants' use of Medicaid, food and housing help in green card decisions
In a move that will place hundreds of thousands of green card applicants under broader scrutiny each year, the Trump administration is allowing immigration officers to consider whether some applicants have used taxpayer-funded benefits — including Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance — when determining whether they qualify for permanent legal status.
The Department of Homeland Security is poised to rescind a 2022 Biden-era regulation narrowing how officers apply a long-standing "public charge" test — an immigration screening tool used to determine whether applicants are likely to rely on government support — according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.
The change may directly affect hundreds of thousands of people applying for green cards from inside the U.S. each year. It could trigger a broader ripple effect if immigrant families avoid health care, food, or housing assistance — even when they or their U.S.-citizen children legally qualify — out of fear that tapping into those benefits could ultimately hurt their immigration cases.
...Under existing federal immigration law, some individuals applying for a visa, admission to the U.S. or green cards can be deemed inadmissible if the government determines they are likely "at any time" to become a public charge.
The Biden-era rule, issued in 2022, limited the benefits DHS could consider to primarily cash welfare payments meant to cover basic living expenses and long-term institutional care paid for by the federal government.
The new final rule restores the broader discretion USCIS had during the first Trump administration, so that officers can conduct case-by-case reviews that consider an applicant's age, health, family status, assets, financial resources, education, skills and whether the person has received means-tested taxpayer-funded benefits.
Those benefits can include food stamps, Medicaid and even housing assistance, according to USCIS officials.
How interesting that Medicaid is on that list at all, as we are constantly told there is no 'there' there.
Ah, the barking and drooling was immediate and ferocious.
And VOILÁ!
The reveal.
To every New Yorker: this rule is not yet in effect. The earliest it could take effect is Sept. 18, 2026.
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 17, 2026
New York City will use every tool at our disposal to fight this attack on immigrant families and the communities that make our city the greatest on earth.
For any… https://t.co/iluefBdgQL
For any questions, please call @NYCImmigrants Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365.
In Spanish even.
Para todos los neoyorquinos: esta medida todavía no está en vigor. Lo más pronto que podría entrar en vigor es el 18 de septiembre de 2026.⁰⁰La ciudad de Nueva York usará todas las herramientas a su alcance para combatir este ataque contra las familias inmigrantes y las…
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 17, 2026
Jeez Louise, that didn't take long, did it?
Add this to 'it happened again' - New York is sweating immigrants not taking advantage of aid they aren't supposed to have access to to begin with because it might not allow them to stay, and legally take advantage of it once they get a green card.
If it's too risky, you shouldn't be doing it.
...Still, for immigrant and mixed-status families, there's perhaps a more pressing calculation. The final rule could simply make food, health and housing assistance feel too risky on the tenuous path to permanent legal status in the United States.
They make your head hurt.
Now I know it's not going to make any points in commie-land, but cutting off the cash spigot has proven spectacularly effective time and again.
— ScrollofTruth (@ScrollofTruthIF) July 17, 2026
But only if you really want your country for its citizens.
You have to go back to Uganda.
— GaryBucees (@GaryBucees) July 17, 2026
Yeah. That, too.
You do have to kind of care for your country first, and that can be a real challenge for some people.
Beege ADDS: Um...LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT
.@SecMullinDHS: "We've identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in just four states... We also worked with proactive states to identify 28,000 noncitizens on their voter rolls, PLUS 400,000 individuals that are still registered to vote that are deceased." pic.twitter.com/FPF7nFUi5B
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 17, 2026
Editor’s Note: We voted for mass deportations, not mass amnesty. Help us continue to fight back against those trying to go against the will of the American people.
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