On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden and domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz held a Skype question-and-answer session on immigration. The national media barely noticed. What Biden didn’t count on was Melissa Mullins, who was a reporter for our CNSNews.com site about a decade ago.
TheBlaze.com reported that Mullins caused Biden to insist that some of his ancestors entered the United States illegally, and suggested Mullins needs to check her ancestry as well. She asked what Biden what he says to legal immigrants who see illegal residents taking government benefits:
Biden answered that they would not qualify for health care, but said nothing about the other benefits.
“By the way, my parents, my great grandparents, my great-great grandparents came to escape the famine and they didn’t all come here legally,” Biden said. “They didn’t all come legally. So listen, the existence of the system wasn’t as nearly as truncated as it is now. A lot went to Canada. Came down. So, I’d check your ancestry to make sure they did come in legally, if that’s a concern to you.”
He continued on the point about benefits.
“The other piece here is that there is this misnomer that somehow, with us moving toward this immigration reform, and pathway to citizenship, that all of a sudden 11 million folks in the shadows now are going to be able to qualify for all these government programs,” Biden said. “They will not qualify. By the way, when they are in the system, identifiable and everyone knows they are on this pathway, it’s easier to determine they don’t qualify. It’s easier to determine they will not get the benefits.”
So we can all be confident that the Democrats will crack down and deny benefits to non-citizens once the "pathway to citizenship" is established? Or wouldn't it seem obvious that they would find it politically easier to approve benefits?
The Blaze reporter was Fred Lucas, who was more recently a White House reporter for CNSNews.com. He and Melissa never overlapped in employment at the news site.
