Medicare-for-all without strict immigration control is the formula for disaster. In the early 70s, I was working for the Texas welfare department as a financial services caseworker when California was dramatically increasing their welfare benefits. This led to an exodus of welfare recipients to California from many states to take advantage of the situation. Now, if we don’t adequately protect our borders and, also, pass Medicare-for-all legislation, we won’t have to wait for climate change to send a flood of immigrants our way. And if you think a border wall is the solution, then you ought to search: ‘Europe's most fortified border is in Africa’. [Anything less than an Iron Curtain like the Berlin Wall all along its entire length would be ineffective in troubled times, thus an effective wall is not feasible.https://samslair.blogspot.com/2018/05/trumps-wall-right-for-wrong-reasons.html?m=1]
Meanwhile, though partisan politics may be entertaining, it’s time for the debating of the pros and cons of critical issues to take on at least the pretense of bipartisanship — though I’m reminded of the admonition, ”bipartisanship usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out”.
