Virginia Gets it Right

The state of Virginia has passed a new law that bars illegal aliens from receiving state-funded benefits.

No one without a Social Security number can receive Medicaid, temporary assistance for needy family, or any help from several other state and local programs, reports the Associated Press.

Nor should they. For illegal aliens are lawbreakers – which means criminals.

What? Come again? ILLEGAL aliens are LAWBREAKERS? Who ever heard of something so outrageous?

Why can't Virginia just leave these poor people alone? They just want to enter the country (ILLEGALLY). They just want to work (ILLEGALLY). They just want to live in America (ILLEGALLY). Just because they're here ILLEGALLY doesn't mean they've done anything wrong. Right?

State Representative David Albo, a Republican from Fairfax, sponsored this new bill and noted that the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles rightfully rejected 187,000 applicants the first year after 2004 legislation restricted illegals from obtaining driver's licenses.

"To me, the same arguments that presented themselves for the driver's license debate are here in the public-benefits debate," declared Delegate Albo. "A lot of us were saying instead of raising taxes, why don't we start prioritizing where we're spending our existing money."

Oh. My. God. A politican just made sense. Somebody get the smelling salts.

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