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NC bill is AZ Prop. 200: Would cut illegal aliens off from welfare and voting
Posted on Friday, March 25 @ 09:48:02 EST
Topic: State Laws Immigration illegal legal
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 Webster moves to cut benefits to illegals
3/24/2005
by James Moffat
Burlington Times-News
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Security, State Budget, NC, Licenses, Senate, Legislation
A local legislator has introduced a bill aimed at stopping illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits.
The bill would also require employers to provide medical coverage to illegal immigrants who work for them.
N.C. Senate bill 976, filed by Sen. Hugh Webster, RAlamance, would require state or local agencies providing public assistance to verify a person's citizenship status before they could receive Medicaid benefits and other public assistance.
Webster filed the bill, called the North Carolina Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, just before Wednesday's afternoon legislative deadline. "The skyrocketing cost of Medicaid is doing serious damage to local budgets," Webster said. "We need to address this thing."
Learn more about Senator Webster and read SB 976
The bill would allow people whose Featured Jobs status is questioned to sign an affidavit in order to receive temporary benefits.
If the agency determines the person is not a U.S. citizen or a legal immigrant, that person could face criminal charges.
"My bill is addressing the issue of illegal immigration," Webster said. "That is criminal conduct. Where I come from, people who violate the law are criminals."
The bill also states that any state or local government worker who fails to report such violations would be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Employers who willingly refuse to provide medical coverage would be liable to reimburse the state for medical services provided to their employees.
"There might be some big boys who don't like that," Webster said.
The bill would allow illegal immigrants to receive emergency medical assistance, which is a requirement under federal law.
Webster's bill is modeled after Arizona's Proposition 200 , which requires state and local officials to check the immigration status of people applying for certain public benefits.
Arizona voters approved the initiative in November. Opponents call the initiative unconstitutional because it gives immigration enforcement powers to the state instead of the federal government.
Colorado and Idaho have seen similar bills filed in the wake of the Arizona voter referendum.
Alamance County Commissioner Tim Sutton, a longtime advocate of stricter immigration laws, praised Webster's bill and was "glad to see" someone in the state take action on an issue he said the federal government has not addressed.
"I think people are sick and tired of paying money for the follies of the U.S. federal government," Sutton said.
Sutton, who sits on the county's Department of Social Services board, said the county's Medicaid costs have risen each year he's been a county commissioner and attributes "a great portion of it" to illegal immigrants receiving services.
"Medicaid is out of sight," he said. "I hope (the bill) passes."
Reuters news service contributed to this report.
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Re: NC bill is AZ Prop. 200: Would cut illegal aliens off from welfare and voting (Score: 1)
by janetgreen on Friday, March 25 @ 12:29:18 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | N.C. Senate bill 976, filed by Sen. Hugh Webster, RAlamance, would require state or local agencies providing public assistance to verify a person's citizenship status before they could receive Medicaid benefits and other public assistance. Another legislator who has awakened to the mess that our own President is burdening America with. Every state needs this legislation, not only the border states. Illegal aliens are in EVERY state, and eventually they will suck those states dry, just like they're doing now in the border states. Senator Webster is trying to protect the citizens of N.C., good for him!!
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Re: NC bill is AZ Prop. 200: Would cut illegal aliens off from welfare and voting (Score: 1)
by Agenda21ispoison on Friday, March 25 @ 13:24:18 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Now we need another 45 states to do the same! |
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Re: NC bill is AZ Prop. 200: Would cut illegal aliens off from welfare and voting (Score: 1)
by RonLaws on Friday, March 25 @ 19:24:07 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Now let's see if the Charlotte Observer or Governor Easley says anything about this bill or that illegal Aliens are a problem in NC. Or will the Charlotte Observer and Easley try to keep the subject ignored and 'under wraps' just like they have not mentioned the Secure NC Driver License legislation ---more so now that their precious illegal Aliens are under direct 'heat'. |
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Re: NC bill is AZ Prop. 200: Would cut illegal aliens off from welfare and voting (Score: 1)
by Charlesoakisland on Friday, March 25 @ 21:42:38 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Sen. Hugh Webster for Governor |
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