A few minor suggestions:
No food stamps.
No subsidized housing.
No child benefit.
Cash up front (or proof of insurance) when using the ER as their doctor.
States individually may do as they please, that's part of the deal, but the federal government is supposed to punish law breakers, not reward them.
I would give them one federal benefit. $500 and a one way plane ticket to their country of origin. The $500 would be compensation for the inconvenience of taking their fingerprints and a DNA sample on their way out of the country.
Good start.
H.ere are a few problems:
- Illegal aliens are not eligible for the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), BUT our Federal government is encouraging the violation of the law.. The States meanwhile, are simply following along.
- You're talking about a total (according to available data from HUD) of about 0.4% (@30,000 people) of all people in federally founded housing classifying as "ineligible aliens", with half of them being illegal aliens with US born children, and under the SCOTUS's current interpretation of the XIV Amendment to the Constitution, children born of illegal aliens on US soil are automatically granted citizenship, and because of that, thejr families become eligible for Federal housing. I'm with you on this, but I don't see throwing 15,000 people out of housing as making a big dent on the problem, AND the notion that less than 30K illegals out of the millions in the country are receiving federal houising assistance tends to cement the argument that they're NOT as much a drag on society as we'd like to argue that they are.
- Child benefits... the US born children of illegal aliens are US citizens. I don't agree with that ruling, but it is considered settled law at this time. If conservatives cut benefits off to kids that are considered US citizens, they will lose that battle in both the Federal Courts and the court of public opinion
- Cash up front for doctors or ER. The applicable law there is the The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), passed in 1986 under Reagan. Are Conservatives ready to bring down the conservative icon of recent American politics in order to deny emergency health services to women and children? Because you KNOW that's how the idea will be marketed by the media, PLUS going back to that interpretation of the XIV Amendment, you'd be denying health care to people who are as legally eligible for Federal funding as multigenerational American citizens.
The problem here is government, not people. Flawed (but established) interpretations of laws, and the outright illegal action y the Executive to enforce those laws that it disfavors.
We have a power-drunk, out of control government acting unconstitutionally and with complete disregard for the rule of law.
THAT is the true issue here.
It's complicated but I do agree with Oceander.
If we're going to ask that the left slay some of their sacred cows, we're going to have to kill a few of our own in good faith.
There's going to be pain for everyone.