What's more, employers currently have a clear economic incentive to hire undocumented immigrants: they don't require coverage. A plan that mandates insurance for native workers but not their illegal counterparts actually makes life harder on the blue-collar Americans competing for jobs (and railing against immigrants) because it means that hiring them will cost more than hiring a recent transplant from Mexico City….

But despite the potential economic upside, the right shouldn't stress: America won't insure its illegal immigrants any time soon. "The hard thing here is that the current state of perception on immigration is eroding our sense of social solidarity… People simply don't want money going to people on the other side of the tracks."

"People simply don't want money going to people on the other side of the tracks."

Richer people have resisted aiding poorer people for about as long as
people have existed. How many times have you heard people arguing that
they don't want their hard-earned dollars going to some dirty, lazy,
welfare bum who ought to get a damn job and stop sponging off
hardworking honest people? I've heard that sentiment a lot. I think
it's ugly, I think it's ignorant, and I think it comes from a place of
fear and anger, not compassion and respect for others.