{"id":2694,"date":"2026-05-24T00:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/becerra-defends-illegal-immigrants-as-hard-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T00:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:10:51","slug":"becerra-defends-illegal-immigrants-as-hard-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/becerra-defends-illegal-immigrants-as-hard-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Becerra Defends Illegal Immigrants as &#8216;Hard Workers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Story Is&#8221; Thursday, as Breitbart News reports, <strong>Becerra<\/strong> reframed the debate around immigration status, contending that those without legal documentation should not be denied healthcare benefits. <em>&#8220;If you&#8217;re working hard, I want you to have healthcare,&#8221;<\/em> he stated, drawing a contrast with <strong>Hilton&#8217;s<\/strong> position that undocumented immigrants should be removed from state healthcare rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Host <strong>Elex Michaelson<\/strong> pressed <strong>Becerra<\/strong> on both the rationale and fiscal implications of his stance, noting that <strong>Hilton<\/strong> has campaigned on restricting healthcare access to illegal immigrants and that such policy maintains fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becerra<\/strong>, the son of immigrants himself, responded by highlighting what he characterized as the hypocrisy of opponents who benefit from undocumented workers&#8217; labor while denying them healthcare. He pointed to their role in California&#8217;s agricultural sector, construction industry, and domestic care services as evidence that they perform essential work across the economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hilton&#8217;s<\/strong> counter-argument centers on the rule of law, emphasizing his own legal immigration status and arguing that publicly-funded healthcare for those who entered illegally creates perverse incentives for further unlawful immigration.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on cost, <strong>Becerra<\/strong> argued that excluding undocumented immigrants from preventive care does not eliminate expenses but merely shifts them toward emergency room visits\u2014typically the most expensive healthcare delivery method available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra defended providing healthcare coverage to undocumented immigrants, arguing they contribute economically to the state while his Republican rival Steve Hilton opposes the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[651,2583,543,1331,2582,2580],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-democratic-governor-candidate","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration-policy","tag-steve-hilton","tag-xavier-becerra","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}