Well, that's one way to reduce Medicaid spending

A week or two back, the “border czar” said his people use racial profiling in determining who to roust.

Now, ICE has access to records from CMS regarding people on Medicaid, including name, address, and race/ethnicity. So, now anyone with brown skin will want to avoid going to the doctor, just like they are starting to avoid schools, appointments with the Immigration Dept, and Lowe’s.

Steve

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You never know what is going to get to removed or when so it’s better to not let it bother you. Give yourself a pat on the back because you are giving someone a job.

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Someone has a quota to live up to

[TIG] administration sets quota to arrest 3,000 people a day in anti-immigration agenda

… so one can become fair game easily:

An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead.

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See? Get your papers in order.

Steve

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Isn’t that what he was trying to do? It would have been better if he had worn one of these.

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He didn’t have papers. Trying to get, is not having. A vector of “Catch 22”: if you have papers, you are OK. If you don’t have papers, you aren’t. But, if you go the the authorities, to try to get papers, so you will be OK, you are arrested for not having papers.

or is that Kafka?

Steve

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And

So maybe we shouldn’t get them in order?

Get your papers in order, before TPTB know they want to grab you. Better yet, get your papers in order a year or two ago, before TPTB were TPTB.

Steve