This Liberal NYC Politician Wants Taxpayer-Funded Dental Care - for Illegal Aliens

There is no benefit so generous, so expensive, that some leftist somewhere won't insist it be extended to illegal immigrants. We saw plenty of generosity extended towards these people while Joe Biden and the autopen were in office. They're (thankfully) gone now, and the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigration, not to mention actually getting our southern border under control.

In New York, though, an Upper West Side councilwoman is demanding that illegal aliens be given free dental care. I'll give her credit for (only) one thing, though; she's put her money where her mouth is, or more accurately, where some illegal immigrants' mouths are. An exclusive New York Post story by author Rich Calder has details.

A lefty Upper West Side councilwoman is demanding free dental care for illegal immigrants — and revealed she’s shelled out more than $8,000 of her own dough to keep their pearly whites intact.
“Is someone paying attention to all of their health needs!” Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) roared at NYC Health Department officials during a May 23 budget hearing.
“They have a lot of health needs. Forget the dental! I’m already out $8,000-$10,000 on the dental. So who is paying attention to them?” she scolded.

I'll give her credit for that, while noting how unusual this is for a lefty; they are normally all too anxious to give someone the shirt off your back, but this lib is actually paying, for a change, out of her own pocket. She still thinks the taxpayers should be getting soaked for this, though.

Brewer, who earns $148,500 as a council member, told The Post Friday she’s been fighting tooth and nail for migrants’ health needs — including paying out of her own pocket for some of them to root canals, cavity fillings, and other dental procedures.
“I’ve been doing this kind of stuff for years, especially helping younger people,” said the 73-year-old Brewer, who previously fostered 35 children with her husband, author Cal Snyder. “This is nothing new for me.”

Were I to be able to ask Gale Brewer one question, it would be this: "How many American citizens in your district have free dental care?"

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This is the same nut who advocated for feeding the inmates of Rikers Island "farm-to-table" meals, presumably of the sort that would cost you three figures on the Upper West Side. And again, to Gale Brewer, I would say, "They're crooks. They can eat bologna sandwiches and like it."

The thought processes here are astounding. This isn't emergency medical care; it's dental care, and a lot of it on people from places where dental hygiene isn't a big priority, meaning that they will be lining up for some pretty serious tooth work.

Now, nobody's saying illegal aliens should be denied life-saving emergency care; we're not savages, after all. But honestly, their care should be limited to that. They are in the country illegally. They entered the country illegally, for the most part; granted, some have overstayed visas, and so on. However that happened, they remain in the country illegally. Why should the taxpayers pony up for root canals for people who violate our immigration laws?

Gale Brewer can spend as much of her own money as she wants on fillings and root canals for illegal aliens. The taxpayers of New York should not be on the hook for a penny of it.

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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