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In May, New Yorks State Assembly approved a massive single-payer health care bill that would make the state the first in the nation to effectively eliminate private health insurance, but one key provision in the text could also dramatically increase the size of the states illegal immigration population.

The legislation, titled the New York Health Act, would provide zero-cost health care coverage to every person in New York. There would be no out-of-pocket fees, network restrictions or other requirements.

The estimated cost of the plan varies, but many conservative and libertarian analysts believe it will substantially increase the required tax burden. For instance, the Reason Foundation estimates the proposal will cost taxpayers in New York an additional $91 billion per year by 2019. Avik Roy, the president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and opinion editor at Forbes, says the proposal would require more than $200 billion in tax increases.

To put these figures in perspective, New York state collected $71 billion in tax revenue in 2016.

But perhaps even more damaging is the effect the program could have on illegal immigration in New York, which inevitably would impact the countless other social programs offered by the state. According to the single-payer bill, which remains under consideration by the states Senate, the only requirement for enrolling in the program would be to claim residency, and illegal immigrants wouldnt be turned down coverage.

As Matthew Glans a senior policy analyst at the Heartland Institute, where I also work as executive editor noted in a recent article on the proposal, The programs free coverage for undocumented immigrants would likely create an incentive for people to come to the state for the free care. This will create a burden on the system that funding may not be able to cover.

Its not unreasonable to believe millions of illegal immigrants could come pouring into New York if it approves this single-payer plan, especially since the New York City government, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, has repeatedly said it will not help federal officials enforce U.S. immigration law.

In May, following the arrest of 156 illegal immigrants, de Blasio said that its very distressing to hear that ICE is picking up people who are law abiding and contributing to the community.

According to a report by the Pew Research Center, an estimated 3.8 percent of New Yorks population in 2012 about 750,000 people was composed of immigrants illegally residing in the United States.

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President Trump called for the laws to be enforced that prevent immigrants from receiving welfare until five years after they arrive in the U.S.

Immigrants"must be able to support themselves financially," the president said at an Iowa rally Wednesday.

The average federal welfare benefits of immigrant-headed households, legal or illegal, is $6234, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

Fifty-one percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one welfare program in 2012, as compared to 30 percent of native households, the Center reported.

The president was actually only reiterating an ill-enforced 1996 law.

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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 declares immigrants not eligible for any Federal means-tested public benefit for a period of 5 years beginning on the date of the aliens entry.

"This is the humane way to go," Steve Forbes said on "The Cost of Freedom." He said that welfare reform in the 1990s worked, and the country should hearken back to that system.

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney echoed Trump's sentiments in May when he rejected the idea that government welfare is the only way to show compassion.

"We're no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the number of people on those programs, but by the number of people we help get off of those programs," Mulvaney said.

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Trump Calls for Enforcement of Immigration Laws Restricting Welfare for Immigrants - Fox News Insider

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) wrote some of the legislation that cracks down on illegal immigration. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo

House Republicans are preparing to take up a pair of bills next week that crack down on illegal immigration, according to leadership sources, in a bid to carry out President Donald Trump's promise of tougher enforcement.

One of the bills to see a floor vote, dubbed Kate's Law, boosts penalties for immigrants who try to re-enter the United States after being deported. It is named after Kate Steinle, a young woman who was shot and killed in San Francisco by an immigrant who had been deported repeatedly yet returned. Trump frequently discussed the killing on the campaign trail last year.

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The second is legislation that goes after so-called sanctuary cities localities that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, including by refusing to hold an immigrant in jail longer just so federal officials can pick him or her up to be deported. Sanctuary cities, usually liberal jurisdictions such as New York, have also been a major Trump target.

The "No Sanctuaries for Criminals Act" would toughen penalties for sanctuary cities in multiple ways. For example, it would require that cities and counties comply with orders from federal immigration officials, such as "detainers" that keep immigrants in jail so they can be picked up for deportation. It would also bar Homeland Security and Justice Department grants from sanctuary cities that don't comply.

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The legislation, written by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), also expands mandatory detention policies to cover immigrants with drunken driving violations and those who have had their visa revoked.

"The House Judiciary Committee is working to improve our nations immigration laws and policy, and today I have introduced two, straightforward bills to enhance public safety," Goodlatte said in a statement Friday. "We owe it to the families of those who lost loved ones to take action to prevent these horrible crimes. They have waited far too long.

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A Mexican national is being deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the seventh time.

ICE officers apprehended 29-year-old Agustin Jorge Figueroa Garcia on Wednesday and took him into custody at Pharr city jail, News 4 reports.

In the middle of deportation efforts, federal agents have formally charged Garcia with illegal re-entry into the U.S.

ICE deportation protocol has evolved under the Trump administration, giving agents more liberty to follow the law. Trumps Enhancing Public Safety In The Interior executive order allowed officers to make collateral arrests, which occur when ICE conducts a raid and arrests are made of illegal aliens who were not targeted ahead of the operation.

ICE reports that it is usual for officers to come across additional suspects violating federal immigration laws during targeted raids. Under the Obama administration, ICE did not detain suspects who were not identified prior to the raid.

Under the Obama administration, the Secure Communities program curtailed efforts to empower police officers to enforce immigration laws locally.

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Officials in the Department of Health and Human Services are looking to reduce the number of temporary and permanent shelters for illegal immigrant children, in the wake of a dramatic drop in illegal immigration at the southwestern U.S. border in the last few months.

An HHS official testified Wednesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Department of Homeland Security refers thousands of children to HHS each year after they are apprehended at the border. In fiscal year 2016, for example, 59,170 kids were referred to HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The high numbers in recent years have necessitated the building of temporary shelters for these children. However, Scott Lloyd, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, said the numbers are falling since Trump took office.

"In fact, while referrals during the first quarter of FY 2017 were the highest first quarter referrals in the history of the program, referrals since January have dropped to a five-year low," Lloyd said in his prepared testimony.

"In response to the decreased number of referrals, ORR has been working to reduce shelter capacity by closing the temporary shelters that operated earlier in FY 2017, and we are currently implementing further reductions in permanent shelter capacity," he added. "At this time, we have no temporary facilities open at Department of Defense locations, as the last one closed in February 2017."

That's a dramatic turnaround from the Obama years, when illegal immigration soared and in 2014 became a humanitarian crisis. The numbers fell in 2015, but rose again in 2016, in part because illegal immigrants were hoping to get to the U.S. in time for some kind of perceived improved treatment under President Hillary Clinton, or before President Trump took steps to shut the border.

Total apprehensions of illegal immigrants quickly fell under Trump, which DHS has said is a sign of a drop in attempted illegal border crossings.

By February, Trump's first full month in office, total apprehensions fell to their lowest levels for that month in six years.

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