I distinctly remember being told by Democrats and their pet Credentialed Media that illegals and migrants were not eligible for Medicaid and weren’t receiving it
From the link
For nearly 20 years, Maria would call her sister — a nurse in Mexico — for advice on how to manage her asthma and control her husband’s diabetes instead of going to the doctor in California.
She didn’t have legal status, so she couldn’t get health insurance and skipped routine exams, relying instead on home remedies and, at times, getting inhalers from Mexico. She insisted on using only her first name for fear of deportation.
Things changed for Maria and many others in recent years when a handful of Democrat-led states opened up their health insurance programs to low-income immigrants regardless of their legal status. Maria and her husband signed up the day the program began last year.
“It changed immensely, like from Earth to the heavens,” Maria said in Spanish of Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program. “Having the peace of mind of getting insurance leads me to getting sick less.”
That’s weird, the tweet mentioned the People’s Republik Of Illinois, but, the article starts out with California
At least seven states and the District of Columbia have offered coverage for immigrants since mostly 2020. But three of them have done an about-face, ending or limiting coverage for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who aren’t in the U.S. legally in California, Illinois and Minnesota.
The programs cost way more than officials had projected at a time when the states are facing multibillion-dollar deficits now and in the future. In Illinois, adult immigrants ages 42-64 without legal status have lost their health care to save an estimated $404 million. All adult immigrants in Minnesota no longer have access to the state program, saving nearly $57 million. In California, no one will automatically lose coverage, but new enrollments for adults will stop in 2026 to save more than $3 billion over several years.
I’ve also been reliably told that Republicans hate illegals/migrants and want them to die, while Democrats are super charitable. Yet, they are taking healthcare away from them.
Illinois is run completely by Democrats, but that doesn’t mean that they can spend money they don’t have. Remember: the Windbag City is laying off teachers:
“(R)estorative justice coordinators”? Why the f(ornicate) would the school system have been employing “restorative justice coodinators” in the first place? Here’s the job description.
What is restorative justice?
Simply put, restorative justice has been the feel-good liberalism approach to criminals and juvenile delinquents to make them see what harm they’ve caused, and appeal to their better natures, including (sometimes) meeting with their victims. Under ‘restorative justice,’ being “held accountable” does not mean punishment, though some legal punishments cannot be avoided, and the supporters hope to reduce or eliminate jail time.
There’s an underlying assumption that all people are, in the end, good people, and the adherents can’t get it through their thick, albeit mostly empty, skulls that there are people who are just plain evil.
His Holiness Pope Francis said that this wasn’t Catholic doctrine, but expressed his belief/hope that Hell is empty. That hope/belief is based on the notion that everyone is redeemable, everyone which would supposedly include Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, and Barack Obama.
Without arguing His Holiness’ hope/belief, that kind of sentiment indicates a belief that there is at least some instinctive goodness in everyone, and that pervades the weak-minded ‘restorative justice’ advocates. I can hope that some of those imprisoned for the rest of their miserable lives will reform and perhaps minister to other inmates, but it does not mean they should ever be released.