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The State That Will Spend 28 TIMES MORE on Health Care for Illegals Than on Law Enforcement!

May not be Illegal But 'An Abuse of the Intent of the Policy'

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Whatever happens in electoral contests in places like Virginia (VA), New York City (NYC), or New Jersey (NJ), one of the reasons that the contests are close or left-leaning is arguably because not enough people understand some basic facts. As an independent who cites information across the left-right media divide it is because there is a lack of critical thinking about who is saying what and for what reasons. Part I of this article is made available by the WND News Center and the Daily Caller to this writer for MHProNews and this Patch. If more thinking people in CA (or other 'blue' areas or households) read such content, would they be as likely to vote blue (i.e.: Democratic)? It may sound caring to allow millions of illegals to move into the U.S. without vetting. But it is neither caring to those who made that treacherous journey to jump the border and skip the line that legal paths that immigrants take (including my parents and my bride) took.

So, blindly accepting illegal immigration is unjust on a range of levels.

Per this report by the Daily Caller, one of those injustices is that law enforcement in "blue" California is getting only a fraction of the funding that illegal immigrants are getting who obtain Medicaid benefits. More on this topic in Part II.

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Part I

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'They got very crafty': One state will spend 28 TIMES MORE on health care for illegals than on law enforcement!

'What they did was technically legal, so you can't call it defrauding the government, but it really was an abuse of the intent of the policy'
By Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Foundation | November 4, 2025

California expects to spend 28 times more on health benefits for illegal aliens than on state police in the 2025-2026 budget period.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom's final budget allocates $348 million to law enforcement while the state's own budget experts in an October report estimate the tab for giving full health benefits for illegal aliens amounts to $10 billion. The new report by the state's Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) reveals a 35% higher figure than the $7.4 billion cost Newsom estimated in his January 2025 budget proposal.

California's joint state-federal Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides comprehensive coverage for doctor's visits, medications, and dental and vision care for 1.7 million illegal aliens, who represent 11% of the program's enrollees, according to the LAO report. Illegal immigrants' health benefits will consume a fourth of the Medi-Cal money flowing from state coffers.

"The Governor is committed to effective crime reduction, which is why California's crime rate has been rapidly declining in recent years," said Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a spokesperson for Newsom, said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

"Like other states, law enforcement budgets in California are funded primarily through local funding," Crofts-Pelayo added, pointing to a February 2025 report on city and county spending on police.

But amid a battle in Congress over health spending for illegal immigrants and in the courts over President Donald Trump's National Guard deployments to Los Angeles and other cities to protect Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) facilities amid a surge in threats, the statistic provides another illustration of the blue state's priorities.

Newsom, a frequent Trump critic who has hinted at 2028 presidential aspirations, has championed the policy, making California the first state to provide all immigrants meeting income requirements access to Medicaid in 2022. Newsom touted the move as achieving "universal access to health coverage" — even as he backed off promises of a completely state-subsidized single-payer model.
He recently touted "universal health care" as among his accomplishments in an October CNN interview.

Newsom also criticized Trump's National Guard deployments to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in an Oct. 20 amicus brief dated as an affront to "states' sovereign rights to handle any public safety matters," even as public safety received a short shrift under Newsom compared to health benefits for illegal aliens.

Expansions of the policy to include illegal aliens of any age on Medi-Cal drove spending on the program skyward to more than double the initial estimates, LAO's report says.

While on paper the state must only use its own funds for illegal immigrants, in practice, California obtains federal Medicaid dollars for its pet priorities through complex accounting.

California exploited a loophole in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rules to obtain extra Medicaid matching dollars, Niklas Kleinworth, a policy analyst at Paragon Health Institute, told the DCNF. Even former President Joe Biden's CMS said California's policy was not in keeping with "the intended design" of their rules, per Paragon, a non-partisan policy research institute founded by Brian Blase, former economic policy advisor to Trump.

"What they did was technically legal, so you can't call it defrauding the government, but it really was an abuse of the intent of the policy," Kleinworth told the DCNF. "They got very crafty."

Trump's signature One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law in July scaled back states' ability to obtain Medicaid dollars this way, leaving California scrambling for new revenue streams, the LAO report shows. Newsom also negotiated with legislative Democrats throughout the final two quarters of the 2024-2025 budget period on changes to stop the bleeding.

California Democrats finalized their plans in June: In January 2026 the state will implement a freeze on all illegal adult enrollment, with the revocation of dental coverage and a reduction in certain clinic payments to follow.

In July 2027, the state will introduce a $30 monthly premium — a cost 96% lower than the average $650 that Californians with employer-sponsored plans pay.

The LAO report proposes a tax on the uninsured of $900 or more to make up the shortfall while maintaining programs like the Medicaid expansion for illegal immigrants.
Plans with premiums that cheap are "unicorn policies" for most Americans, Kleinworth told the DCNF.

"The only way a $30 premium exists is through the heavily subsidized Obamacare plans," said Kleinworth.

In order to qualify for such a plan, an American household could earn no more than 150% of the poverty level, or $23,475 per year for a single adult, far less than the state's $76,190 median income.
Newsom dismissed criticism of California policy priorities as the product of "California derangement syndrome" in an October Bloomberg interview.

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Part II

It isn't just Medicaid that is flowing to illegal immigrants.

On MHProNews, we've been reporting on the 'hidden' costs of illegal immigration for years.

https://www.manufacturedhomepr...

One reason that housing costs are beginning to ease is because the Trump-Vance (R) administration has closed the border and an estimated 2 million plus migrants have either been deported or self-deported. The law of supply and demand makes the math simple. Fewer illegal migrants, less demand on housing, lower housing costs for those legally in the U.S.

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Even Senator Bernie Sanders (VT, self-declared Democratic Socialist) has said at various times, including recently, that borders should be enforced.

Are there areas that this writer thinks that President Trump could be doing better?

Absolutely, and we have reported on those multiple times.

For example, two of Trump's appointees are arguably not following federal law and that is harming affordable housing seekers. FHFA Director Bill Pulte is apparently benefiting Clayton Homes, a Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) brand, in several ways that include his failure to enforce the Duty to Serve (DTS) manufactured housing as Congress intended.

https://www.manufacturedhomepr...

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has documented that the ROAD to Housing Act, passed by the Senate with bipartisan support, is flawed unless amended. It is likely to harm the affordable housing market rather than help it.

https://manufacturedhousingass...

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A Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) board member has de facto said much the same as MHARR has, which could be taken as a polite backhanded slap at his MHI colleagues. Some of UMH Properties (UMH) CEO Sam Landy's comments are found in the report linked below.

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But as an independent, give credit where it is due. Trump has sealed the border. He has passed tax cuts for the middle class and gave incentives to invest in the U.S. That will create jobs. Wages are rising faster than inflation. The cost of food and fuel as fallen.

Even Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris admitted that food costs rose under the Biden-Harris (D) years.

So, there is progress under Trump-Vance (R), but more needs to be done.

Other topics follow.

Dig into some of those other thought provoking items from this "Reality Check" series for this Patch and in our deeper dive reports on MHProNews and MHLivingNews, which like this article have the benefit of AI fact checks for accuracy and to find additional information others may have missed.

Thanks as always for checking in. When we find and follow the truth, there is hope for this world and for the next.

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L. A. “Tony” Kovach is a publisher who has earned multiple awards in history. He and his family live in a manufactured home on private property in Winter Haven, FL. He is the co-founder of Manufactured Home Living News.com (MHLivingNews.com) and Manufactured Home Pro News.com (MHProNews.com), trade publications serving segments of the manufactured home industry. Having worked in several segments of the manufactured home industry for over 3 decades, Kovach is a widely acknowledged and often praised expert on manufactured housing.

According to scores of industry pros and three different AI fact-checks, Kovach is the most prolific, most rigorous, most factually accurate-document rich research-reporter on manufactured housing industry issues in the 21st century. But I do get fat finger typos. Please pardon those when you find them. ###


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